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Bibliographic Subjects » CONCEPT of HAPPINESS » Practicality of this concept » Do people evaluate their life? » Stability of happiness » How permanent are happiness judgments?

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CONCEPT of HAPPINESS Practicality of this concept Do people evaluate their life? Stability of happiness How permanent are happiness judgments?
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How permanent are happiness judgments?, stable, trait
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List of Publications on this Subject

Authors Title / Source Year Andrews, F.M. Stability and Change in Levels and Structure of Subjective Well-Being: USA 1972 and 1988.
Social Indicators Research, 1991, Vol. 25, 1 - 30 1991 Block, J. Lives through Time.
Bancroft Books, 1971, Berkeley, USA 1971 Costa, P.T.; McCrae, R.R. An Approach to the Attribution of Aging, Period and Cohort Effects.
Psychological Bulletin, 1982, Vol. 92, 238 - 259 1982 Costa, P.T.; McCrae, R.R. Personality as a Lifelong Determinant of Well-Being.
Malatesta, C.Z.;Izard C.E., Eds.: "Emotion in Adult Development", Sage, 1984, Beverly Hills, USA, 141 - 157 1984 Costa, P.T.; McCrae, R.R.; Morris, A.H. Personal Adjustment to Aging: Longitudinal Prediction from Neuroticism and Extraversion.
Journal of Gerontology, 1981, Vol. 36, 78 - 85 1981 Costa, P.T.; McCrae, R.R.; Zonderman, A.B. Environmental and Dispositional Influences on Well-being: Longitudinal Follow-up of an American National Sample.
British Journal of Psychology, 1987, Vol. 78, 299 - 306 1987 Costa, P.T.; McCrae, R.R.; Zonderman, A.B. Longitudinal Analyses of Psychological Well-Being in a National Sample: Stability of Mean Levels.
Journal of Gerontology, 1987, Vol. 42, 50 - 55 1987 Dobson, C.D. Attitudes and Perceptions.
Powers, E.A. et al (Eds).: "Late Life Transitions", Kluwer, 1985, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 123 - 136 1985 Gehmacher, E. Wohlbefinden und Lebensqualität. (Feeling Well and Quality of Life).
Paper, Institut für Empirische Sozialforschung (IFES), 1988, Vienna, Austria 1988 Glatzer, W. Lebenszufriedenheit und alternative Masse subjektiven Wohlbefindens. (Lifesatisfaction and Alternative Measures of Subjective Well-Being).
Glatzer, W.;Zapf, W.;Eds.:"Lebenqualität in der Bundesrepublik." Campus Verlag, 1984, Frankfurt, Germany, 177 - 191 1984 Headey, B.; Wearing, A.J. A Stocks and Flows Model of Subjective Well-Being.
Paper presented at the International Congress of Psychology, 1988, Sydney, Australia 1988 Headey, B.; Wearing, A.J. Chains of Well-Being, Chains of Ill-Being. An Australian Panel Study, 1981-1985.
Paper presented at the International Conference of Sociology, 1986, New Delhi, India 1986 Headey, B.; Wearing, A.J. Understanding Happiness: A Theory of Subjective Well-Being.
Longman Cheshire, 1992, Melbourne, Australia 1992 Hornstra, R.K.; Klassen, D. The Course of Depression.
Comprehensive Psychiatry, 1977, Vol. 18, 119 - 125 1977 Husaini, B.A.; Linn, J.G.; Whitten-Stovall, R. Stress and Depression in Rural and Urban American Communities: Longitudinal Studies.
Paper presented at 11th Congress of International Sociological Association, 1986, New Delhi, India 1986 Kendall, P. Role of Mood.
Kendall, P.: "Conflict and Mood", The Free Press, 1954, Glencoe, Illinois, USA, 68 - 101 1954 Kozma, A.; Hannah, T.E.; McNeil, J.K.; Stone, S.; Stones, M.J. Long- and Short term Affective States in Happiness: Model Paradigm and Experimental Evidence.
Social Indicators Research, 1990, Vol. 22, 119 - 138 1990 Larson, R. Thirty Years of Research on the Subjective Well-Being of Older Americans.
Journal of Gerontology, 1978, Vol. 33, 109 - 125 1978 MacRae, D. Policy Indicators: Links between Social Science and Public Debate.
University of North Carolina Press, 1985, USA 1985 McCrae, R.R.; Costa, P.T. Adding 'Liebe und Arbeit': The Full Five Factor Model and Well-Being.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1991, Vol. 17, 227 - 232 1991 McNeil, J.K.; Kozma, A.; Stones, M.J. Subjective Well-Being in Later Life: Issues Concerning Measurement and Prediction.
Social Indicators Research, 1986, Vol. 18, 35 - 70 1986 Mortimer, J.T.; Lorence, J. Self-Concept Stability and Change from Late Adolescence to Early Adulthood.
Research in Community and Mental Health, 1981, Vol. 2, 5 - 42 1981 Moum, T. Yea-saying and Mood-of-the-Day Effects in Self-Reported Quality of Life.
Social Indicators Research, 1988, Vol. 20, 117 - 139 1988 Mussen, P.H.; Bieber, S.L.; Eichorn, D.H.; Honzik, M.P.; Meredith, W.M. Continuity and Change in Women's Characteristics over Four Decades.
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1980, Vol. 3, 333 - 347 1980 Mussen, P.H.; Eichorn, D.H.; Honzik, M.P. Early Adult Antecedents of Life Satisfaction at Age 70.
Journal of Gerontology, 1982, Vol. 37, 316 - 322 1982 Offer, D.; Baskin-Offer, J. From Teenage to Young Manhood. A Psychological Study.
Basic Books, 1975, New York, USA 1975 Rodgers, W.L.; Converse, P.E. Measures of the Perceived Overall Quality of Life.
Social Indicators Research, 1975, Vol. 2, 127 - 152 1975 Schwarz, N.; Strack, F. Cognitive and Affective Processes in Judgements of Subjective Well-Being: a Preliminary Model.
Proceedings 10th International Association for Research and Economic Psychology, IAREP Colloquium, 1985, Linz, Austria 1985 Simmons, R.G.; Blyth, D.A. Moving into Adolescence.
Aldine de Gruyter, 1987, New York, USA 1987 Springer, N.N.; Roslow, S. A Study in the Estimation of Feelings.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 1935, Vol. 19, 379 - 384 1935 Stones, M.J.; Kozma, A. Happiness and Activities as Propensities.
Journal of Gerontology, 1986, Vol. 41, 85 - 90 1986 Thurnher, M. Turning Points and Developmental Change: Subjective and 'Objective' Assessments.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1983, Vol. 53, 52 - 60 1983 Underwood, B.; Froming, W.J. The Mood Survey : A Personality Measure of Happy and Sad Moods.
Journal of Personality Assessment, 1980, Vol. 44, 404 - 414 1980 Watson, D.; Clark, L.A. Negative Affectivity: The Disposition to Experience Aversive Emotional States.
Psychological Bulletin, 1984, Vol. 96, 465 - 490 1984 Watson, D.; Clark, L.A.; Tellegen, A. Development and Validation of a Brief Measure of Positive and Negative Affect.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1988, Vol. 54, 1063 - 1070 1988 Yardley, J.K.; Rice, R.W. The Relationship between Mood and Subjective Well-Being.
Social Indicators Research, 1991, Vol. 24, 101 - 111 1991 Yeo, G.; Crapo, L.; Ingram, L.; Skurnick, J. Effects of Geriatric Clinic on Functional Health and Well-Being of Elders.
Journal of Gerontology, 1987, Vol. 42, 252 - 258 1987 Tuddenham, R.D. The Constancy of Personality Ratings over Two Decades.
Genetic Psychology Monographs,1959, Vol. 60, 3 - 29 1959 Maddox, G.L.; Douglass, E.B. Aging and Individual Differences.
Journal of Gerontology, 1974, Vol. 25, 555 - 563 1974 Landua, D. Die Auswirkungen von Panelstudien auf die Antwortmuster von Zufriedenheitsangaben. (Panel effects in Satisfaction Measurement).
Discussion Paper 67, German Institute for Economic Research, 1993, Berlin, Germany 1993 Wagner, D.; Schwarz, N.; Strack, F. Das Leid des Einen ist das Glück des Anderen: Soziale Vergleiche und Selbstdarstellung bei der Beurteilung des eigenen Wohlbefindens. (Social Comparison and Self presentation in Judgments of Own Well-Being.)
Paper University of Heidelberg, 1984, Germany 1984 Diener, E. Assessing Subjective Well-Being: Progress and Opportunities.
Social Indicators Research, 1994, Vol. 31, 103 - 157 1994 Goldsmith, H.H.; Campos, J.J. The Structure of Temporal Fear and Pleasure in Infants: A Psychometric Perspective.
Child Development, 1990, Vol. 61, 1944 - 1964 1990 Huebner, E.S. Initial Development of the Student's Life Satisfaction Scale.
School Psychology International, 1991, Vol. 12, 231 - 240 1991 Brief, A.P.; Butcher, A.H.; George, J.M.; Link, K.E. Integrating bottom-up and top-down theories of subjective well-being: The case of health.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1993, Vol. 64, 646 - 653 1993 Pavot, W.; Diener, E. Review of the Satisfaction with Life Scale.
Psychological Assessment, 1993, Vol. 5, 164 - 172 1993 Holahan, C.K.; Cronbach, L.J.; Sears, R.R. The Gifted Group in Later Maturity.
Stanford University Press, 1995, California, USA 1995 Kivett, V.R.; Suggs, P.K. Caswell Revisited: A Ten-Year Follow-Up on the Rural By-Passed Elderly.
Research Report, University of North Carolina, 1986, Greensboro, USA 1986 Csikszentmihalyi, M.; Larson, R. Validity and Reliability of the Experience-Sampling Method.
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1987, Vol. 175, 526 - 536 1987 Stones, M.J.; Hirdes, J.; Kozma, A. Short Happiness and Affect Research Protocol. (SHARP)
Social Indicators Research, 1996, Vol. 37, 75 - 91 1996 Hoopes, L.L.; Lounsbury, J.W. An Investigation of Life Satisfaction Following a Vacation: A Domain Specific Approach.
Journal of Community Psychology, 1989, Vol. 17, 129 - 140 1989 Freeman, M.; Csikszentmihalyi, M.; Larson, R. Adolescence and its Recollections: Toward an Interpretive Model of Development.
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1986, Vol. 32, 267 - 185 1986 Hagedorn, J.W. Happiness and Self-Deception: An Old Question Examined by a New Measure of Subjective Well-Being.
Social Indicators Research, 1996, Vol. 38, 139 - 160 1996 Lykken, D.T.; Tellegen, A. Happiness is a Stochastic Phenomenon.
Psychological Science, 1996, Vol. 7, 186 - 189 1996 Krebs, D.; Schmidt, P. Satisfaction in Germany.
Saris, W.E.;et al;Eds. :"A Comparative Study of Satisfaction with Life in Europe", Eötvös University Press,1996, Hungary, 117 - 132 1996 Saris, W.E.; Scherpenzeel, A.C. Methodological Procedures for Comparative Research.
Saris, W.E.;et al;Eds.:"A Comparative Study of Satisfaction with Life in Europe", Eötvös University Press,1996, Hungary, 49 - 76 1996 Adams, V.H. A Paradox in African American Quality of Life.
Social Indicators Research, 1997, Vol. 42, 205 - 219 1997 Veenhoven, R. Two State-Trait Discussions on Happiness. A Reply to Stones et al.
Social Indicators Research, 1998, Vol. 43, 211 - 225 1998 Lepper, H.S. Use of Other-Reports to Validate Subjective Well-Being Measures.
Social Indicators Research, 1998, Vol. 44, 367 - 379 1998 Lykken, D.T. Happiness: What Studies on Twins Show Us About Nature, Nurture and the Happiness Set-Point.
Golden Books, 1999, New York, USA 1999 Marks, G.N.; Fleming, N. Influences and Consequences of Well-Being Among Australian Young People: 1980 - 1995.
Social Indicators Research, 1999, Vol. 46, 301 - 323 1999 Kozma, A.; Stone, S.; Stones, M.J. Stability in Components and Predictors of Subjective Well-Being (SWB): Implications for SWB Structure.
Diener, E.;Rathz, D.R.;Eds.: "Advances in Quality of Life Theory and Research", Kluwer, 2000, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 13 - 30 2000 Stones, M.J.; Kozma, A. Happiness and Activities in Later Life: A Propensity Formulation.
Canadian Psychology, 1989, Vol. 30, 526 - 537 1989 Grob, A. Der Einfluss bedeutsamer Lebensereigniss auf das Wohlbefinden und die bereichsspezifischen Kontrollmeinungen von Jugendlichen. (The Impact of Mayor Life -Events on the Well-Being and Control Belief of Adolescents).
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Psychologie, Vol. 1991, Vol. 50, 48 - 63 1991 Grob, A.; Flammer, A.; Kaiser, F.G.; Lüthi, R.; Mackinnon, A.; Wearing, A.J. Berner Fragebogen zum Wohlbefinden Jugendlicher (BFW). (Bern Questionnaire of Well-Being of Youth).
Diagnostica, 1991, Vol. 37, 66 - 75 1991 Coenders, G.; Andreenkova, A.; Batista-Foguet, J.M.; Saris, W.E. Stability of Three-Wave Simplex Estimates of Reliability.
Structural Equation Modeling, 1999, Vol. 6, 135 - 157 1999 Ventegodt, S. Measuring the Quality of Life. From Theory to Practice.
Forskningscentrets Forlag, 1995, Copenhagen, Denmark 1995 Koivumaa-Honkanen, H.T.; Honkanen, R.J.; Kaprio, J.; Koskenvuo, M.; Viinamäki, K. Self-Reported Life Satisfaction and 20-Year Mortality in Healthy Finnish Adult.
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2000, Vol. 152, 983 -991 2000 Okun, M.A.; George, L.K. Physician- and Self-Rating of Health, Neuroticism and Subjective Well-Being among Men and Woman.
Personality and Individual Differences, 1984, Vol. 5, 533 - 539 1984 Veenhoven, R. Is Happiness a Trait? Test of the Theory that a Better Society does not Make People any Happier.
Social Indicators Research, 1994, Vol. 32, 101 - 160 1994 Eid, M.; Diener, E. Intraindividual Variability in Affect: Reliability, Validity, and Personality Correlates.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1999, Vol. 76, 662 - 676 1999 Magnus, K.; Diener, E. A Longitudinal Analysis of Personality, Life Events, and Subjective Well-Being.
Paper presented at 63rd Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 1991, Chicago, USA 1991 Edgerton, R.B. Quality of Life from a Longitudinal Research Perspective.
Schalock, R.L.; Ed.: "Quality of Life. Perspectives and Issues", AAMR, 1990, Washington DC, USA, 149 - 160 1990 Trauer, T.; Chiu, E.; Duckmanton, R.A. A Study of the Quality of Life of the Severely Mental Ill.
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1998, Vol. 44, 79 - 91 1998 Livson, N.; Peskin, H. Prediction of Adult Psychological Health in a Longitudinal Study.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1967, Vol. 72, 509 - 518 1967 Lyubomirsky, S.; Tucker, K.L. Implications of Individual Differences in Subjective Happiness for Perceiving, Interpreting, and Thinking about Life Events.
Motivation and Emotion, 1998, Vol. 22, 155 - 186 1998 Heller, D.; Judge, T.A.; Watson, D. The Confounding Role of Personality and Trait Affectivity in the Relationship between Job and Life Satisfaction.
Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2002, Vol. 23, 815 - 835 2002 Ruini, C.; Ottolini, F.; Rafanelli, C.; Tossani, E. The Relationship of Psychological Well-Being to Distress and Personality.
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 2003, Vol. 72, 268 -275 2003 Fujita, F.; Diener, E. Life Satisfaction Set Point: Stability and Change
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2005, Vol. 88, 158 - 164 2005 VanSluijs, J. Effecten van Levenslooptransities op de Tevredenheid van Jong Volwassenen. (Effects of Life course Transition on Satisfaction of Adolescents).
Master thesis, University Tilburg, 2004, Netherlands 2004 Cruise, S.M.; Lewis, C.A.; McGuckin, C. Internal Consistency, Reliability, and Temporal Stability of the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire. Short-Form: Test-Retest Data over Two Weeks.
Social Behaviour and Personality, 2006, Vol. 34, 123 - 126 2006 Lewis, C.A.; McCollum, M.A. The Depression-Happiness Scale: Test-Retest Data over Two Weeks.
Psychological Reports, 1999, Vol. 85, 889 -892 1999 Lewis, C.A.; Joseph, S. The Depression-Happiness Scale: A Measure of a State or Trait? Test-Retest Data over Two Years.
Psychological Reports, 1997, Vol. 81, 1313 - 1314 1997 Lewis, C.A.; Francis, L.J.; Ziebertz, H.G. The Internal Consistency Reliability and Construct Validity of the German Translation of the Oxford Happiness Inventory.
North American Journal of Psychology, 2002, Vol. 4, 211 - 220 2002 Hiu- Wai Lai, J.; Bond, M.H.; Heung-Hung Hui, N. The Role of Social Axioms in Predicting Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study in Hong Kong.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2006, Vol. 8, 517 - 535 2006 Lucas, R.E.; Donnellan, M.B. How Stable is Happiness? Using the STARTS Model to Estimate the Stability of Life Satisfaction.
Journal of Research in Personality, 2007, Vol. 41, 1091 - 1098 2007 Steger, M.F.; Kashdan, T.B. Stability and Specificity of Meaning in Life and Life Satisfaction over One Year.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2007, Vol. 8, 161 - 179 2007 Lyubomirsky, S.; Lepper, H.S. A Measure of Subjective Happiness: Preliminary Reliability and Construct Validation.
Social Indicators Research, 1999, Vol. 46, 137 - 155 1999 Veenhoven, R. Findings on Happiness and Happiness Career.
World Database of Happiness, Collection of Correlational Findings, Finding report H5, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Printout 2009, http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl. 2009 Dockery, A.M. The Happiness of Young Australians: Empirical Evidence on the Role of Labour Market Experience.
The Economic Record, 2005, Vol. 81, 322 - 335 2005 Cummins, R.A.; Stokes, M.A.; Wooden, M. A Demonstration of Set-Points for Subjective Wellbeing.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2014, Vol. 15, 183 - 206 2014 Cummins, R.A.; Wooden, M. Personal Resilience in Times of Crisis: The Implications of SWB Homeostasis and Set-Points.
Journal of Happiness Studies: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Subjective Well-Being, 2013, Dordrecht, The Netherlands 2013 Huebner, E.S.; Funk, B.A.; Gilman, R. Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Psychosocial Correlates of Adolescent Life Satisfaction Reports.
Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2000, Vol.16, 53 - 64 2000 Olena, K. Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Ukraine.
Thesis, National University ''kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 2005, 1 - 62, Ukraine. 2005 Carter, S.D Reexamining the Temporal Aspects of Affect: Relationships Between Repeatedly Measured Affective State, Subjective Well-being, and Affective Disposition.
Personality and Individual Differences, 2004, Vol. 36, 381 - 391 2004 Bayani, A.A.; Goodarzi, H.; Koockeky, A.M. The Reliability and Validity of the Satisfaction with Life Scale.
Journal of Iranian Psychologists, 2007, Vol. 3, 259 - 265 2007 Kaczmarek, L. D.; Bujacz, A.; Eid, M. Comparative Latent State-Trait Analysis of Satisfaction with Life Measures: The Steen Happiness Index and the Satisfaction with Life State.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2015, Vol. 16, 443 - 453 2015 Weber, M. The Good Character in German-Speaking Children and Adolescents: Assessment , Association with Life Satisfaction and Role in Specific Life Domains.
Thesis, 2012, Faculty of Arts, The University of Zurich, 1 - 157, Germany 2012 Kurland, B.F; Gill, D.L.; Patrick, D.L. Longitudinal Change in Positive Affect in Community-Dwelling Older Persons.
JAGS, 2006, Vol. 54, 1847 - 1853 2006 Headey, B.; Muffels, R. Towards a Theory of Life Satisfaction Accounting for Stability, Change and Volatility in 25-year Life Trajectories in Germany.
Social Indicators Research, 2018, Vol. 140, 837 - 866 2018 Burckhardt, C.S.; Schultz, A.A.; Woods, S.L. Quality of Life of Adults with Chronic Illness: A Psychometric Study.
Research in Nursing, 1989, Vol. 12, 347 - 354 1989 Hudson, N.W.; Donnellan, M.B.; Lucas, R.E. Day-To-Day Affect is Surprisingly Stable: A 2-Year Longitudinal Study of Well-Being
Social Psychological and Personality Science 1-10 2016 Conley, J.J. The Hierarchy of Consistency: A review and Model of Longitudinal Findings on Adult Individual Differences in Intelligence, Personality and Self-Opinion.
Personality and Individual Differences, 1983, Vol. 5, I l - 25 1983 Learmonth, Y.C.; Alwick, E.A.; McAuley, E. Quality of Life and Health-Related Quality of Life over 1 Year in Older Women: Monitoring Stability and Reliability of Measurement.
Social Indicator Research, 2015, Vol. 123, 267 - 279 2015 Galinha, I.; Esteves, F.; Pereira, C.R. Versão Reduzida da Escala Portuguesa de Afeto Positivo e Negativo - PANAS-­‐VRP: Análise Fatorial Confirmatória e Invariância Temporal.
Revista PSICOLOGIA, 2014, Vol. 28, 53 - 65 2014 Galinha, I.; Esteves, F.; Pereira, C.R. Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Temporal Invariance of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS).
Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2013, Vol. 26, 671 - 679 2013 Capic, T.; Cummins, R.A.; Li, N. Confirmation of Subjective Wellbeing Set-Points: Foundational for Subjective Social Indicators
Social Indicators Research, 2018, Vol. 137, 1 - 28 2018 Shek, D.T.; Wu, F.K.; Yu, L. A 4-year Longitudinal Study of Well-being of Chinese University Students in Hong Kong.
Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2017, Vol. 12, 867 - 884 2017 Stieger, S.; Götz, F. M. Soccer results Affect Subjective Well-being, but only Briefly: A Smartphone Study during the 2014 FIFA World Cup
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015, Vol. 6, 497-505 2015 Joshanloo, M. Investigating the Relationships Between Subjective Well-Being and Psychological Well-Being Over Two Decades
Emotion, 2019, Vol. 19, 183 - 187 2019 Gnambs, T.; Buntins, K. The Measurement of Variability and Change in Life Satisfaction: A Comparison of Single-Item and Multi-Item Instruments
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2017, Vol. 33, 224-238 2017 Wilner, L. The Dynamics of Individual Happiness
Working Paper,2019, Nr. 18, Crest, Montrouge, France. 2019