Achieving Sustainable New Happiness: Prospects, Practices, and Prescriptions

By Kennon M. Sheldon, Sonja Lyubomirsky. 2012

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

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Taking a “Peak” at Leisure Travelers’ Positive Emotions (2012, background): “Given extensive research supporting the stable foundation of positive emotion variation between individuals (summarized in Sheldon & Lyubomirsky, 2004), we also covaried for personality.”
Is It Possible to Become Happier? (And If So, How?) (2007, background): “Thus, both the 'why' and the 'what' of activity appear to matter for SWB (see Sheldon et al. 2004, for a similar conclusion concerning personal goal pursuit).”
Beyond the hedonic treadmill: revising the adaptation theory of well-being. (2006, background): “For instance, Sheldon and Lyubomirsky (2004) demonstrated that changes in activities raised people’s happiness.”
Changes in emotions and their interactions with personality in a vacation context (2014, background): “Not only is it important to recognize the specificity, variability, and different consequences of tourists emotions, researchers should also account for the influence of personality (Gutiérrez, Jiménez, Hernández, & Puente, 2005; Sheldon & Lyubomirsky, 2004; Yik & Russell, 2001).”
Persistent pursuit of need-satisfying goals leads to increased happiness: A 6-month experimental longitudinal study (2010, background): “This provides important new support for a central premise of the sustainable happiness model (Lyubomirsky et al., 2005; Sheldon & Lyubomirsky, 2004), that only a continuing influx of positive experiences, generated by sustained effort (a continuous " will " ), can maintain happiness in the upper…”
Variety is the spice of happiness: The hedonic adaptation prevention model. (2013, background): “Our early work regarding these questions focused on the SHM (Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, & Schkade, 2005 ; Sheldon & Lyubomirsky, 2004 , 2006 ), which divides the possible infl uences on SWB into three broad categories: genetics, circumstances, and activities (see Fig.”
The Set-Point Theory of Well-Being: Negative Results and Consequent Revisions (2007, background): “efforts nor public policy can do much to enhance it (e.g. Lykken 2000; Sheldon and Lyubomirsky 2004).”