Personality and Subjective Well-Being

By R. E., E. Diener. 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Hedonic Versus Eudaimonic Conceptions of Well-being: Evidence of Differential Associations With Self-reported Well-being (2011, methodology): “In line with previous research on SWB (e.g., Brunstein 1993; Diener and Lucas 1999), an aggregate SWB variable was created by standardizing each of the above scores and then subtracting negative affect scores from the sum of positive affect and life satisfaction, yielding a single SWB indicator…”
Life satisfaction and the economic and social characteristics of neighbourhoods (2009, background): “Importantly, in the context of explaining the variance in life satisfaction, there is an extensive body of psychological research that has established the importance of personality traits (see Diener and Lucas 1999; Lykken and Tellegen 1996).”
The effect of social comparisons on commute well-being (2011, background): “Personality has been shown to be a major determinant of overall well-being (DeNeve and Cooper, 1998; Diener and Lucas, 1999), and we hypothesize that it also plays a role in determining commute well-being.”
Three Ways to Be Happy: Pleasure, Engagement, and Meaning—Findings from Australian and US Samples (2009, background): “Personality and sociodemographic variables consistently predict subjective well-being (Diener and Lucas 1999; Gannon and Ranzijn 2005).”
An analysis of the determinants of job satisfaction when individuals’ baseline satisfaction levels may differ (2007, methodology): “The novelty in our article is the application of the methodology proposed by Das and van Soest ( 1999 ) and Ferrer-i-Carbonel and Frijters ( 2004 ) to estimate the determinants of job satisfaction.”
Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification (2008, background): “lower than the other’s, because a neurotic tends to assess his or her circumstances more negatively (Diener and Lucas, 1999).”
A Tale of Two Scales: Evaluating the Relationship Among Life Satisfaction, Social Capital, Income, and the Natural Environment at Individual and Neighborhood Levels in Metropolitan Baltimore (2011, background): ““Subjective well-being” is another common psychological term, referring to both the cognitive and affective evaluations of one’s life which can be generalized to encompass both life satisfaction and happiness (Diener & Lucas, 1999).”
Measuring Lay Conceptions of Well-Being: The Beliefs About Well-Being Scale (2011, background): “This factor seemed to represent one dimension of a hedonic conception of well-being (e.g., Diener and Lucas 1999; Kahneman et al. 1999) and was deemed to be theoretically meaningful.”
How Satisfied are the Self-Employed? A Life Domain View (2015, neutral): “Individuals are also able to (ordinally) compare and assess other individuals’ happiness, for example when individuals’ self-reports are correlated with reports of friends and family (Sandvik et al., 1993; Diener and Lucas, 1999).”