Positivity and the Construction of Life Satisfaction Judgments: Global Happiness is not the Sum of its Parts

By E. Diener, Christie K. Napa-Scollon, S. Oishi, V. Dzokoto, E. Suh. 2000

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Belief and feeling: evidence for an accessibility model of emotional self-report. (2002, background): “In explaining these results, Diener et al. (2000) proposed that people recall episodic details when rating relatively specific life domains but that they rely on (culture-related) beliefs when rating their satisfaction with global life domains (see also Schwarz & Strack, 1991).”
The evolving concept of subjective well-being: The multifaceted nature of happiness. (2009, background): “Both Kunzmann et al. (2000) and Pinquart (2001) noted that the size of age effects often varies depending on whether cross-sectional or longitudinal methods are used.”
Effect of Event Service Quality and Satisfaction on Happiness Among Runners of a Recurring Sport Event (2015, background): “In his work on happiness, Diener et al. (2000) equates the term happiness with the term subjective well-being.”
Meeting the Leadership Challenge of Employee Well-Being Through Relationship PsyCap and Health PsyCap (2013, background): “For example, Diener et al. (2000) have demonstrated that people’s well-being is not just the sum of their domain-specific (i.e., work, health, and relationships) satisfaction appraisals.”
Integrating The Diverse Definitions of Happiness: A Time-Sequential Framework of Subjective Well-Being (2005, background): “In a similar vein, Diener et al. (2000) found that a general positivity disposition predicts average life satisfaction judgments across nations.”
Cognitive, affective and contextual predictors of subjective wellbeing (2012, methodology): “Results obtained by Diener et al. (2000) also showed that global measures of SWB tend to be predicted by broad www.internationaljournalofwellbeing.org 49 indicators and positive predisposition factors, while specific measures may reflect actual experiences and be more diagnostic on the causes of…”
Most People are Pretty Happy, but There is Cultural Variation: The Inughuit, The Amish, and The Maasai (2005, methodology): “The SWLS has been shown to have good psychometric properties (Pavot & Diener, 1993) and has been used widely across cultures (e.g., Diener, Scollon, Oishi, Dzokoto, & Suh, 2000 ).”
Reconsidering happiness: the costs of distinguishing between hedonics and eudaimonia (2008, neutral): “Of course, this is a simplification of the literature as both the domains being assessed and time frame capture different elements of well-being and lead to slightly different conclusions (see Diener, Napa-Scollon, Oishi, Dzokoto, & Suh, 2000 ; Wirtz, Kruger, Scollon, & Diener, 2003 ).”
Estimating worldwide life satisfaction (2008, background): “They found that positivity – i.e. the tendency to report aspects of life in general as being good – was associated with the extent to which positive feelings and emotions were themselves seen as being valuable and worthwhile (Diener et al., 2000).”
A dynamic approach to psychological strength development and intervention (2011, positive): “In some cases, attention to the interplay between subjective well-being components has led to new insights, such as the finding that global life satisfaction is not merely the aggregate of specific domain satisfaction but is, instead, affected by cultural norms (Diener, Scollon, Oishi, Dzokoto, & Su”
From Materialist to Post-Materialist Happiness? National Affluence and Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Cross-National Perspective (2010, background): “Usually, the ‘‘over-achievement’’ of Latin American countries in terms of SWB has been explained by general positivism ( Diener et al. 2000 ) or other cultural traits.”