Life Goals Matter to Happiness: A Revision of Set-Point Theory

By B. Headey. 2008

243 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Barbara L. Fredrickson
2. Gert G. Wagner
3. Jürgen Schupp
4. Ingrid Tucci
5. Philippe R. Goldin
6. N. Farb
7. Eric L. Garland
8. J. Delhey

In Health

1. Jürgen Schupp
2. J. Delhey
3. Gert G. Wagner
4. Ingrid Tucci
5. Joar Vittersø
6. Barbara L. Fredrickson
7. Eric L. Garland
8. B. Headey

In Social Psychology

1. Jürgen Schupp
2. Gert G. Wagner
3. Joar Vittersø
4. Eric L. Garland
5. Ingrid Tucci
6. J. Delhey
7. Philippe R. Goldin
8. N. Farb

Citations in the corpus

• Mindfulness Broadens Awareness and Builds Eudaimonic Meaning: A Process Model of Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation (2015, background): “, altruism, social activism) rather than monetary gains (Heady, 2008).”
• The Set Point Theory of Well-Being Has Serious Flaws: On the Eve of a Scientific Revolution? (2010, background): “Further analysis (not shown here) indicated that respondents who had persistently over 15 years pursued (or reported pursuing) non zero-sum goals recorded gains in life satisfaction, whereas those who persistently pursued zero sum goals recorded declines ( Headey 2008b ).”
• From Materialist to Post-Materialist Happiness? National Affluence and Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Cross-National Perspective (2010, background): “Further, Headey (2008) found that attaching importance to success goals (e.g., material success) has a detrimental effect on life satisfaction.”
• Authentic happiness theory supported by impact of religion on life satisfaction: A longitudinal analysis with data for Germany (2010, methodology): “Previous analyses based on the German panel have already cast doubt on set-point theory by showing that the SWB of at least 20% of adults appears to have undergone long term change during the last 20 years (Headey, 2006, 2008a).”
• Was Hercules Happy? Some Answers from a Functional Model of Human Well-being (2009, background): “Hedonic well-being measures have proven to be sensitive to changes in life circumstances and variations in other theoretically relevant variables (Diener 1994; Headey 2008; Kahneman and Krueger 2006; Lucas 2007; Lucas and Clark 2006; Lyubomirsky et al. 2005).”