Life Satisfaction is not a Balanced Estimator of the Good Life: Evidence from Reaction Time Measures and Self-Reported Emotions

By Joar Vittersø, Hella Oelmann, Anita L. Wang. 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Integrating the hedonic and eudaimonic perspectives to more comprehensively understand wellbeing and pathways to wellbeing (2012, background): “Waterman (2008) was first to respond, arguing that it was premature to consider abandoning eudaimonic approaches on the grounds of a lack of conceptual clarity.”
Life satisfaction goes with pleasure and personal growth goes with interest: Further arguments for separating hedonic and eudaimonic well-being (2011, background): “More recently, Vitterso, Oelman, and Wang ( 2009 ) found that life satisfaction was correlated with the speed of identifying a smiling face (among neutral faces), and with the time participants spent looking at a happy as opposed to a sad face.”
Purpose, Mood, and Pleasure in Predicting Satisfaction Judgments (2012, background): “Vitterso et al. (2009) suggest that life satisfaction is heavily weighted toward pleasure, and does not reflect the positive influence of interest and engagement.”
Was Hercules Happy? Some Answers from a Functional Model of Human Well-being (2009, background): “In a reaction time study, satisfaction with life was found to correlate with the time it took to detect a smiling face (among neutral faces), and to the time participants spent looking at a happy as opposed to a sad face (Vitters0 et al. 2009).”
Measuring Well-being Across Europe: Description of the ESS Well-being Module and Preliminary Findings (2009, background): “The work of authors such as Amabile (Amabile et al. 1994), Kashdan (Kashdan et al. 2004) and Vittersø (Vittersø et al. in press), examining the domains of engagement, interestingness and curiosity, can also be seen as central to a concept of well-being which focuses on ‘‘doing’’ rather than ‘‘being’”