Life satisfaction set point: stability and change.

By Frank Fujita, E. Diener. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2005

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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Core and Surface Characteristics for the Description and Theory of Personality Differences and Development (2014, background): “On the basis of a large representative panel study, Fujita and Diener (2005) reported comparable levels of rank-order continuity for traits and life satisfaction (a facet of SWB) over a 1-year period.”
Measuring Subjective Wellbeing for Public Policy: Recommendations on Measures (2011, background): “The general consensus, however, is that there are stable and reliable patterns in SWB, even over the course of many years (Fujita and Diener, 2005).”
Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries? (2011, background): “Although initially partisans of the adaptation hypothesis, Fujita and Diener (2005) note that in 17 years of GSOEP data, around one quarter of people changed well-being significantly from the first five to the last five years.”
Effects of a Strengths Intervention on General and Work-Related Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Positive Affect (2017, background): “…for instance, has been found to be stable over time for a majority of people, and the minority of people who display alternating levels of satisfaction with life have usually undergone considerable changes in life circumstances such as losing their job or spouse (Fujita and Diener 2005).”
Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and Negative Experiences (2010, background): “In the 1984–2000 longitudinal study described earlier by Fujita and Diener ( 2005 ), although 76 % of the respondents remained unchanged in their well-being, 24 % reported signifi cant shifts (though, unfortunately, most of these were for the worse, not for the better).”
Development, Freedom, and Rising Happiness: A Global Perspective (1981–2007) (2008, background): “Fujita and Diener (2005) analyzed data from a 17-year German panel study, finding that 24% of the respondents’ life satisfaction levels changed significantly from the first 5 years of the study to the last 5 years.”
Stability and Change of Well Being: An Experimentally Enhanced Latent State-Trait-Error Analysis (2009, methodology): “used to assess the reliability of single-item indicators which are more commonly used in large representative panel studies of well being (Ehrhardt et al. 2000; Fujita and Diener 2005).”
Beyond the hedonic treadmill: revising the adaptation theory of well-being. (2006, background): “longitudinal studies examining individuals over time. For instance, Fujita and Diener (2005)”
Subjective Wellbeing as an Affective-Cognitive Construct (2007, positive): “The 3.3 percentage point variation in the mean SWB of the Australian population (Cummins et al. 2005) and the recent finding that 75% of people in Germany reported stable SWB over a 5-year period ( Fujita and Diener 2005 ) add to a substantial earlier literature to confirm this fundamental understan”
The Set Point Theory of Well-Being Has Serious Flaws: On the Eve of a Scientific Revolution? (2010, background): “In practice, Diener and colleagues have focused on major life events in their efforts to account for set-point change (Lucas et al. 2003; Clark et al. 2004; Fujita and Diener 2005; Clark et al. 2008).”
Personality and Subjective Well-Being (2009, methodology): “More recently, Fujita and Diener (2005) and Lucas and Donnellan (2007) used data from large-scale panel studies to estimate the stability of a single-item life satisfaction measure.”
Subjective Wellbeing, Homeostatically Protected Mood and Depression: A Synthesis (2010, background): “Over the past few years, there have been several critics of set-point theory (e.g., Fujita and Diener 2005; Headey 2008; Lucas 2007) based on observed changes in the SWB of individuals over time.”
The Prospective Effect of Life Satisfaction on Life Events (2013, background): “…Author: Maike Luhmann, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, 940 E. 57th Street, Biopsychological Sciences Building, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Email: luhmann@uchicago.edu & Smith, 1999) that is moderately stable over time (Eid & Diener, 2004; Fujita & Diener, 2005; Lucas & Donnellan, 2007).”
Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges (2008, positive): “In this sense, it appears to be compatible with a small number of emerging papers such as Lucas et al (2004) and Fujita and Diener (2005). It may be that the two social-science disciplines can converge in their thinking.”