Focusing on the Past, Present, or Future? Why Proactive Personality Increases Weekly Subjective Well-Being
AbstractSubjective well-being (SWB) varies within a person. However, even though previous studies have paid attention to why people with a more proactive personality have higher SWB, they have ignored how proactive personality influences an individual ’s state SWB using a within-person approach. According to the time perspective, we propose that proactive personality positively influences an individual’s weekly SWB. Moreover, we propose that weekly rumination, weekly mindfulness, and weekly future optimism—which represent the past, present, and future time perspective, respectively—mediate the relationship between ...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - October 12, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Scale Norming Undermines the Use of Life Satisfaction Scale Data for Welfare Analysis
AbstractScale norming is where respondents use qualitatively different scales to answer the same question across survey waves. It makes responses challenging to compare intertemporally or interpersonally. This paper develops a formal model of the cognitive process that could give rise to scale norming in year o n year responses to life satisfaction scale questions. It then uses this model to conceptually differentiate scale norming from adaptation and changes in reference points. Scale norming could make life satisfaction responses misleading with regards to the changing welfare of individuals. In particul ar, individual...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - October 12, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Developing a Social Evolutionary Measure of Child and Adolescent Hedonic and Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Rural Sierra Leone
We examined the psychometric properties of the measure in the pilot study data, and in a larger dataset generated with 2324 children living in 95 communities. The qualitative results showed that the participants experienced the framework components (e.g., social acceptance) in their daily lives, and that each component was intertwined with indigenous perspectives on child wellbeing . The quantitative results demonstrated that the measure had good dimensional, concurrent, and predictive validity. (Source: Journal of Happiness Studies)
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - October 12, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Moderating Role of Self-Sacrificing Disposition and Work Meaningfulness on the Relationship Between Work-Family Conflict and Emotional Exhaustion
AbstractDrawing on conservation of resources theory, this study tests whether the relationship between work-family conflict and emotional exhaustion in the public sector is contingent on self-sacrificing disposition and work meaningfulness. In particular, the study postulates that the positive association between work-family conflict and exhaustion will be weakened when public sector employees possess high levels of self-sacrificing disposition and experience high levels of work meaningfulness. Using a sample of 484 physicians working in 21 public hospitals in Egypt, the hypotheses were tested with hierarchal linear modell...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - October 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Effects of Income and Material Deprivation on Children ’s Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Longitudinal Data for England (2009–2018)
AbstractA plethora of research shows that income is an important factor in adult ’s life satisfaction, but research ascertaining its importance for children’s life satisfaction is scant. Using a largescale nationally representative longitudinal survey with children aged 10–15, we estimate comprehensive life satisfaction models that account for heterogeneity in exogenous ci rcumstances in children’s lives, focussing on family income and material deprivation. We find empirical support for the hypothesis that children are more satisfied with their lives, the more income their family has and the less material deprivati...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - October 5, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
