The role of person versus situation in life satisfaction: a critical examination.

By D. Heller, D. Watson, R. Hies. Psychological bulletin, 2004

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Whistle While You Work (2012, background): “The bottom-up approach regards life satisfaction as a function of satisfaction with life domains (Heller et al., 2004; Pavot & Diener, 2008).”
Openness and ambiguity intolerance: Their differential relations to well-being in the context of an academic life transition (2009, neutral): “to life satisfaction (DeNeve & Cooper, 1998; Heller, Watson, & Ilies, 2004; Steel, Schmidt, &”
Happiness at work. (2010, positive): “…consistently related to subjective well-being include extraversion and emotional stability (neuroticism) and the similar constructs of dispo-sitional positive and negative affectivity, as well as locus of control, optimism and self-esteem (cf. Heller et al. 2004; Lucas 2008; Steel et al. 2008).”
Change in life satisfaction during adulthood: findings from the veterans affairs normative aging study. (2005, background): “Marital Status, Health, and Life Satisfaction Whereas personality traits form the basis of top down approaches to life satisfaction, contextual variables are emphasized in bottom up approaches (Diener, 1984; Feist et al., 1995; Heller et al, 2004).”
Becoming Happier Takes Both a Will and a Proper Way: An Experimental Longitudinal Intervention to Boost Well-Being (2011, methodology): “We began by testing two activities that have previously been found to be effective in enhancing happiness—practicing optimistic thinking by visualizing one’s best possible future selves (cf. King, 2001) and expressing gratitude through writing (cf. Emmons & McCullough, 2003).”
The Satisfaction With Life Scale and the emerging construct of life satisfaction (2008, background): “In a major work, Heller, Watson, and Ilies (2004) used a meta-analytic approach to test the viability of several top-down and bottom up models.”
Personality Traits and Relationship Satisfaction in Intimate Couples: Three Perspectives on Personality (2014, result): “Consistent with previous research, self-reported neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness were significantly associated with relationship satisfaction within the individuals (actor effects; Dyrenforth et al., 2010; Heller et al., 2004).”
Employee well-being: A multilevel model linking work and nonwork domains (2007, background): “…further by uncovering a concurrent and prospective intraindividual relationship between job satisfaction and marital satisfaction, thus demonstrating that focusing solely at the between-subject level might falsely suggest marital and job satisfaction are unrelated (see also Heller et al., 2004).”
Children's subjective well-being: International comparative perspectives (2011, background): “The shortcomings of the bottom-up approach and the emergence of behavioural genetic data, as well as studies on the long-term stability of subjective well-being, have shifted the research interest toward a top-down approach (Heller et al 2004).”
The Influence of Environment and Personality on the Affective and Cognitive Component of Subjective Well-being (2008, background): “The main finding is that neuroticism is the strongest predictor (Heller et al. 2004; Vitterso 2001; Schimmack et al. 2004), and that the effect of neuroticism on CWB is mediated by AWB (Schimmack et al. 2002, b). Although the other Big Five traits sometimes seem to make a unique contribution to CWB ”
Social Cognitive Career Theory and Subjective Well-Being in the Context of Work (2008, background): “In other words, changes in traits seem possible, but the extent of change may, to a certain degree, be circumscribed depending on one’s baseline level of a particular trait (cf. Heller et al., 2004).”
Authentic leadership and eudaemonic well-being: Understanding leader-follower outcomes (2005, background): “The hedonic approach to understanding human wellbeing has been translated into the assessment of subjective well-being (SWB; Diener et al., 2003 )a s a general subjective evaluation of life in terms of pleasantness versus unpleasantness or as a summation of evaluative reactions to life stimuli encou”