Unemployment Alters the Set Point for Life Satisfaction

By Richard E. Lucas, Andrew E. Clark, Y. Georgellis, E. Diener. Psychology Science, 2004

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

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Life Goals Matter to Happiness: A Revision of Set-Point Theory (2008, background): “Using these data, Diener and colleagues observe that some respondents appear to have recorded long term and perhaps permanent changes in their SWB (Lucas et al. 2003; Clark et al. 2004; Fujita and Diener 2005).”
Losing a Job: The Nonpecuniary Cost of Unemployment in the United States (2012, background): “This finding is replicated with the same data by Gerlach and Stephan (1996) and Lucas et al. (2004). Clark and Oswald (2002), Clark (2003) and Andersen (2009) arrived at a similar conclusion using the British Household Panel Survey, as did Korpi (1997), who used a panel of youth in Sweden.”
Dissatisfied with Life, but Having a Good Day: Time-Use and Well-Being of the Unemployed (2010, neutral): “…influences, including the respondents’ income, social contacts or health.1 These answers represent a respondent’s personal assessment of general life satisfaction, but give only limited insights into what makes people unhappy when they are unemployed or what makes them happy when they are employed.”
Personality and Subjective Well-Being (2009, background): “ment and divorce, on the other hand, some amount of adaptation occurred, but this adaptation was incomplete (Lucas, 2005; Lucas et al., 2004).”
Social desirability bias in self-reported well-being measures: evidence from an online survey (2017, result): “…analyses, socio-demographic variables show that being female, not married/ cohabitant, less educated, and unemployed tend to lower subjective well-being, as demonstrated in previous studies (Lucas et al., 2004; Myers, 2000; Piccinelli & Wilkinson, 2000; Sigmon et al., 2005; Watson et al., 2010).”
Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being (2006, neutral): “#4 2 Source: Clark, Diener, Georgellis and Lucas (2003), using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel.”
The evolving concept of subjective well-being: The multifaceted nature of happiness. (2009, background): “46 for positive affect and negative affect in a student sample, and Costa and McCrae (1988) found 6-year stability coefficients in the 0.”
Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel (2010, positive): “The adaptation effects we investigate are consistent with the model of Pollak (1970), Wathieu (2004), Rayo and Becker (2005), inter alia.”