How Do People Pursue Happiness?: Relating Personality, Happiness-Increasing Strategies, and Well-Being

By Chris Tkach, Sonja Lyubomirsky. 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Living well by “flowing’ well: The indirect effect of autotelic personality on well-being through flow experience (2020, background): “Instead, people with various dispositions may find different strategies and activities contributing to their well-being (Tkach & Lyubomirsky, 2006).”
The Meaning of Mindfulness in Children and Adolescents: Further Validation of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM) in Two Independent Samples from The Netherlands (2013, background): “Internal consistency, test–retest reliability, divergent, and convergent reliability have all been shown to be good (i.e., Lyubomirsky and Lepper 1999; Tkach and Lyubomirsky 2006).”
Temperament and Happiness in Children (2010, background): “Research has found support for both of these mechanisms (Shiner and Caspi 2003; Tkach and Lyubomirsky 2006 ).”
Spirituality, Religiousness, and Happiness in Children Aged 8–12 Years (2010, background): “It is a reliable (a = .85) ( Tkach and Lyubomirsky 2006 ) measure of happiness, and shows convergent and discriminant validity (Lyubomirsky and Lepper 1999).”
What are the Differences between Happiness and Self-Esteem (2006, background): “For example, in a recent study, the relation between extraversion and happiness was partially mediated by social affiliation and active leisure activities (Tkach and Lyubomirsky, 2005).”
Up-regulating positive emotions in everyday life: Strategies, individual differences, and associations with positive emotion and well-being (2012, methodology): “…of the strategies that our top-down approach drew from the affect regulation literature (for example, savoring, social affiliation, and expressing positive emotions; see Bryant, 2003; Tkach & Lyubomirsky, 2006); engagement also included some of the participants' most commonly reported strategies.”
How to increase and sustain positive emotion: The effects of expressing gratitude and visualizing best possible selves (2006, background): “Furthermore, researchers know very little about how people enhance their positive moods in their daily, naturalistic settings (see Tkach & Lyubomirsky, in press ) and whether habitual mood boosting strategies lead to recurring experiences of positive affect.”
Gender Differences in Happiness and Life Satisfaction Among Adolescents in Hong Kong: Relationships and Self-Concept (2016, background): “Similarly, although Tkach and Lyubomirsky (2006) found that men and women were equally happy, they uncovered gender differences in the use of happiness-enhancing strategies.”
Strength-Based Positive Interventions: Further Evidence for Their Potential in Enhancing Well-Being and Alleviating Depression (2013, background): “…studies should also target other strengths included in the VIA-classification (e.g., curiosity, love), address different orientations to a good life (as described in Peterson et al. 2005a, b; Seligman 2011), or address other strategies that aim to increase happiness (Tkach and Lyubomirsky 2006).”
The Contribution of Social Relationships to Children’s Happiness (2009, background): “For example, Tkach and Lyubomirsky (2006) suggested that the consistently strong relation between extraversion and happiness was mediated by social affiliation.”
Pursuit of pleasure, engagement, and meaning: Relationships to subjective and objective measures of well-being (2010, neutral): “Behavioral strategies are major determinants of individual differences in happiness (Tkach & Lyubomirsky, 2006).”