Maintaining Life Satisfaction: The Role of Positive Cognitive Bias

By Robert Cummins, Helen Nistico. 2002

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

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Student violence against teachers: Teachers' well-being and the belief in a just world. (2007, background): “against teachers and to identify teachers who are unable to successfully regulate their well- being ( Cummins & Nistico, 2002 ).”
The Impact of Core Self-evaluations on Job Satisfaction: The Mediator Role of Career Commitment (2013, background): “With the development of positive psychology, there has been a remarkable increase in attention to subjective well-being (SWB), an affective and cognitive evaluation of life happiness and satisfaction (Campbell et al. 1976; Cummins and Nistico 2002).”
Life satisfaction among European American, African American, Chinese American, Mexican American, and Dominican American adolescents (2004, background): “It also reflects individual mood and the cognitive appraisal of events and conditions (Cummins & Nistico, 2002; Lyubomirsky, 2001).”
The Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Well-Being: Psychometric properties, demographic comparisons, and evidence of validity (2010, unknown): “…of control, authenticity, and effective decision-making styles as well as negative associations with worry, anxiety, and depression (Arrindell, Heesink, & Feij, 1999; Ayyash-Abdo & Alamuddin, 2007; Cummins, 2002; Engin, 2006; Ito & Kodama, 2005; Neto, 1993, 1995; Paolini, Yanez, & Kelly, 2006).”
An Exploratory Inquiry into the Psychological Biases in Financial Investment Behavior (2013, methodology): “However, people do not always reference themselves against some objective standard but against some internal standards (Cummins and Nistico [2002]).”
Health, Quality of Life and Population Density: A Preliminary Study on “Contextualized” Quality of Life (2012, background): “Indeed, it is clear that all these factors interact with one other (Cummins 2000), arriving at a point where they regulate each other (Cummins and Nistico 2002) without losing specificity (Camfield and Skevington 2008).”
The hard-knock life? Whites claim hardships in response to racial inequity. (2015, background): “Despite people's motivations and efforts to maintain rosy and even exaggerated views of their lives (Cummins & Nistico, 2002), they might claim increased life hardships in response to threatening evidence of racial privilege.”
Facebook and self-perception: Individual susceptibility to negative social comparison on facebook. (2015, background): “We focus on individual differences in happiness because social information affects the self-perceptions of happier people differently than the self-perceptions of unhappier people (Cummins & Nistico, 2002).”
Being on PAR: Outcomes of a Pilot Trial to Improve Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace With the Promoting Adult Resilience (PAR) Program (2008, background): “Both findings indicate stability and an underlying positive bias in self-assessment (Cummins & Nistico, 2002), and could indicate that measures of wellbeing are less suitable to assess change in an individual due to an intervention, such as the PAR program.”
Happiness in the Face of Adversity: Reformulating the Dynamic and Modular Bases of Subjective Well-Being (2005, background): “Notably, the illusory quality pertains to three constructs (self-esteem, sense of control, and optimism) that serve as consistent correlates, or regulators, of SWB (Cummins & Nistico, 2002; Myers & Diener, 1995).”