DO PEOPLE REALLY ADAPT TO MARRIAGE?

By Richard E. Lucas, Andrew E. Clark. 2006

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Marriage and Subjective Well-Being: How and Why Context Matters (2015, unknown): “In support of this claim, some scholars using longitudinal panel data to examine individual changes in marital status and happiness have found that marriage has little lasting effect on happiness over time (Lucas et al. 2003; Lucas and Clark 2006).”
Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales (2013, background): “Lucas and Donnellan (2007) analyzed the life satisfaction of people over time in large data sets from Germany (SOEP), the United Kingdom (BHPS), and Australia (HILDA; see also Lucas 2007; Lucas and Clark 2006; Lucas et al. 2003, 2004).”
Life satisfaction dynamics with quarterly life event data (2011, unknown): “, 2004; Clark, 2006), marriage and divorce (Lucas and Clark, 2006; Oswald and Gardner, 2006; Zimmermann and Easterlin, 2006); income (Kuhn et al.”
Making it last: Combating hedonic adaptation in romantic relationships (2013, unknown): “…to some major negative life events such as long-term disability (Lucas, 2007), divorce (Lucas, 2005), unemployment (Clark & Georgellis, in press; Lucas, Clark, Georgellis, & Diener, 2004), and widowhood (Lucas & Clark, 2006; Lucas, Clark, Georgellis, & Diener, 2003) is incomplete, on average.”
Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis (2008, unknown): “as to the extent of subsequent adaptation (Lucas et al., 2003, Lucas and Clark, 2006, and”
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).”
Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany (2006, background): “Lucas (2005) finds that divorce too reduces life satisfaction, a result seemingly at odds with the finding on marriage (Lucas et al. 2003), which Lucas continues to defend (Lucas and Clark 2006).”
Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and Negative Experiences (2010, background): “…that German residents who had married sometime during the 15-year period of their prospective longitudinal investigation initially obtained a signifi cant boost in their happiness levels, but reverted to their baseline after 2 years on average (Lucas et al., 2003 ; see also Lucas & Clark, 2006 ).”