Curiosity and pathways to well-being and meaning in life: Traits, states, and everyday behaviors

By T. Kashdan, M. Steger. 2007

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

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A daily diary study of relationships between feelings of gratitude and well-being (2017, methodology): “Meaning in life was measured using two subscales (presence and search) of two items each taken from Kashdan and Steger (2007).”
The Teasing Effect: An Underappreciated Benefit of Creating and Resolving an Uncertainty (2018, background): “…and later resolve the uncertainty, students will learn to enjoy the process (Csikszentmihalyi 1990; Kapp 2012), develop long-lasting habits of knowledge seeking (Kashdan and Silvia 2009; Silvia 2008; Silvia and Kashdan 2009), and live a happier life for years to come (Kashdan and Steger 2007).”
Whether highly curious students thrive academically depends on perceptions about the school learning environment: A study of Hong Kong adolescents (2007, background): “Highly curious people derive more immediate and lasting psychological and intellectual benefits compared to their less curious peers (e.g., Kashdan and Steger 2007; Raine et al. 2002).”
GLOMOsys: A Systems Account of Global Versus Local Processing (2010, background): “…eudaimonia contains an “orientation of openness to the tension and excitement of life challenges and uncertainty” and is related to growth, expansion motives, and curiosity, hedonic pleasure contains a notion of “frequent and enduring positive affect” that is immediate (Kashdan & Steger, 2007).”
Internet pornography use and sexual motivation: a systematic review and integration (2019, background): “Additionally, in some ways, curiosity and information-seeking may also be seen as pleasureseeking drives (Kashdan & Steger, 2007; Kashdan, Rose, & Fincham, 2004; Litman, 2005).”
Extended Theory of Planned Behavior (ETPB): Investigating Customers’ Perception of Restaurants’ Sustainability by Testing a Structural Equation Model (2018, background): “In support of this finding, Kashdan and Steger [91] defined curiosity as one of the main ingredients of the “sustainability of well-being in everyday life, an appetitive state involving the recognition, pursuit, and intense desire to investigate novel information and experiences that demand one’s at”
Was Hercules Happy? Some Answers from a Functional Model of Human Well-being (2009, background): “In psychological literature, eudaimonia has often been juxtaposed with the concept of personal growth, which again has strong connotations to a person’s stable disposition towards curiosity, openness, seeking out challenges, persistence in goal pursuits and realizing one’s potential (e.g., Aspinwall”
The five-dimensional curiosity scale: Capturing the bandwidth of curiosity and identifying four unique subgroups of curious people (2018, unknown): “Too often, curiosity is explored as a single, aggregate dimension (e.g., Kashdan & Steger, 2007; Mussel, 2013b; Spielberger & Reheiser, 2004), with exceptions that inspired this research program (e.g., Litman & Silvia, 2006; Reio et al., 2006).”
Are the sources of interest the same for everyone? Using multilevel mixture models to explore individual differences in appraisal structures (2009, background): “This finding is consistent with the collected body of work on openness: people high in this family of traits prefer complex and unfamiliar stimuli, seek and enjoy novel experiences and intense sensations, tend to feel curious during daily life, and show stronger physiological responses to novelty (K”
Origins of Purpose in Life: Refining our Understanding of a Life Well Lived (2009, background): “The more a person seeks out novel and potentially rewarding behaviors, the greater the likelihood that the person will form a coherent understanding of her environment and the associated contingencies (cf. detecting and creating meaning; Kashdan & Steger, 2007).”
Curiosity and Interest: The Benefits of Thriving on Novelty and Challenge (2009, background): “…of 21 days, people with greater trait curiosity reported more frequent growth-oriented events (such as persisting at goals in the face of obstacles and expressing gratitude to benefactors), greater daily curiosity, and greater sensitivity to these daily events and states (Kashdan & Steger, 2007).”
Meaningfulness as Satisfaction of Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness, and Beneficence: Comparing the Four Satisfactions and Positive Affect as Predictors of Meaning in Life (2018, methodology): “A number of studies have looked at meaningfulness utilizing a daily diary method (Kashdan and Steger 2007; King et al. 2006 Study 2; Steger et al. 2006; 2008a, b; Steger and Kashdan 2013), which make it possible to look at what causes daily fluctuations in meaningfulness judgments.”
Interesting things and curious people: Exploration and engagement as transient states and enduring strengths. (2009, background): “As a result, people can find novelty and hence interest in an otherwise mundane event (Kashdan, 2009; Kashdan & Steger, 2007).”