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DETERMINANTS OF HAPPINESS Striking the balance of life Mental processes Reflect an attitude Is happiness a trait?
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Is happiness a trait?, character, personality, set-point
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List of Publications on this Subject

Authors Title / Source Year Aron, E.; Aron, A. The Influence of Inner State on Self-Reported Long-term Happiness.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1987, Vol. 27, 248 -270
1987
Baxter, M.F.; Washburn, M.F.; Yamada, K. Directed Recall of Pleasant and Unpleasant Experiences.
American Journal of Psychology, 1917, Vol. 28, 155 - 157
1917
Caspi, A.; Elder, G.H. Life Satisfaction in Old Age: Linking Social Psychology and History.
Journal of Psychology and Aging, 1986, Vol. 1, 18 - 26
1986
Chamberlain, K.; Zika, S. Stability and Change in Subjective Well-Being over Short Time Periods.
Social Indicators Research, 1992, Vol. 26, 101 - 117
1992
Chaplin, W.F.; Goldberg, L.R.; Oliver, P.J. Conceptions of States and Traits: Dimensional Attributes with Ideals as Prototypes.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1988, Vol. 54, 541 - 557
1988
Clark, L.A.; Watson, D. Mood and the Mundane: Relations between Daily Life Events and Self Reported Mood.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1988, Vol. 54, 296 - 308
1988
Elder, G.H.; Caspi, A.; Nguyen, T.V. Linking Family Hardship to Children's Lives.
Child Development, 1985, Vol. 56, 361 - 375
1985
Grom, B. Glück, Lebenszufriedenheit und Sinn, Erfahrungswissenschaftlich Betrachtet. (Happiness, Satisfaction and Meaning: Empirical Approach).
Grom, B.;et al.Eds.:"Glück. Auf der Suche nach dem Guten Leben", Ullstein Verlag, 1987, Frankfurt, Germany, 13 - 190
1987
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
Horley, J.; Laverly, J.J. The Stability and Sensitivity of Subjective Well-Being Measures.
Social Indicators Research, 1991, Vol. 24, 113 - 122
1991
Inkeles, A. National Character Revisited.
The Tocqueville Review, 1990/91, Vol. 12, 83 - 117
1989
Landua, D. An Attempt to Classify Satisfaction Changes: Methodological and Content Aspects of a Longitudinal Problem.
Social Indicators Research, 1992, Vol. 26, 221 - 241
1992
Larsen, R.J.; Ketelaar, T. Extraversion, Neuroticism and Susceptibility to Positive and Negative Mood Induction.
Journal of Personality and Individual Differences, 1989, Vol. 10, 1221 - 1228
1989
Lawton, M.P. The Varieties of Well-Being.
Experimental Aging Research, 1983, Vol. 9, 65 - 72
1983
Lebo, M.A.; Nesselroade, J.R. Intra Individual Differences Dimensions of Mood Change during Pregnancy identified in Five P-Technique Factor Analysis.
Journal of Research in Personality, 1978, Vol. 12, 205 - 224
1978
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
Moller, V. The Relevance of Personal Domain Satisfaction for the Quality of Life in South Africa.
South African Journal of Psychology, 1988, Vol. 3, 69 - 75
1988
Ormel, J. Neuroticism and Well-Being Inventories: Measuring Traits or States?
Psychological Medicine, 1983, Vol.13, 165 - 176
1983
Stones, M.J.; Kozma, A. Happiness and Activities as Propensities.
Journal of Gerontology, 1986, Vol. 41, 85 - 90
1986
Stones, M.J.; Kozma, A. "Happy are They Who are Happy....", A Test between Two Causal Models of Relationships between Happiness and its Correlates.
Experimental Aging Research, 1986, Vol. 12, 23 - 29
1986
Tuddenham, R.D. Constancy of Personal Morale over a Fifteen-Year Interval.
Child Development, 1962, Vol. 33, 663 - 673
1962
Washburn, M.F.; Booth, M.E.; Glicksmann, E.; Stocker, S. A comparison of directed and free recalls of pleasant and unpleasant experiences as test of cheerful and depressed temperaments.
American Journal of Psychology, 1926, Vol. 7, 278 - 288
1926
Washburn, M.F.; Harding, L.; Simmons, H.; Tomlinson, D. Further experiments on directed recall as a test of cheerful and depressed temperaments.
American Journal of Psychology, 1925, Vol. 36, 454 - 456
1925
Watson, D. Intra-individual and Inter-individual Analyses of Positive and Negative Affect: Their Relation to Health Complaints, Perceived Stress and Daily Activities.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1988, Vol. 54, 1020 - 1030
1988
Watson, D.; Clark, L.A. Negative Affectivity: The Disposition to Experience Aversive Emotional States.
Psychological Bulletin, 1984, Vol. 96, 465 - 490
1984
Wierzbicki, M. Similarity of Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins in Level and Lability of Subclinically Depressed Mood.
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1986, Vol.42, 577 - 585
1986
Williams, D.G. Personality and Mood: State-Trait Relationships.
Personality and Individual Differences, 1981, Vol. 2, 303 -309
1981
Young, P.T. Laughing and Weeping, Cheerfulness and Depression: A Study of Moods among College Students.
Journal of Social Psychology, 1937, Vol. 8, 311 - 334
1937
Young, P.T. Is Cheerfulness-Depression a General Temperamental Trait?
Psychological Review, 1937, Vol. 44, 313 - 319
1937
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
Stones, M.J.; Hadjistavropoulos, T.; Kozma, A.; Tuuko, H. Happiness has Traitlike and Statelike Properties: A Reply to Veenhoven.
Social Indicators Research, 1995, Vol. 36, 129 - 144
1995
Veenhoven, R. Two State-Trait Discussions on Happiness. A Reply to Stones et al.
Social Indicators Research, 1998, Vol. 43, 211 - 225
1998
Rogalski, S.; Paisey, T. Neuroticism versus Demographic Variables as Correlates of Self-Reported Life Satisfaction in a Sample of Older Adults.
Personality and Individual Differences, 1987, Vol. 8, 397 -401
1987
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
Zelenski, J.M.; Larsen, R.J. The Distribution of Basic Emotions in Every Day Life: A State and Trait Perspective from Experience Sampling Data.
Journal of Research in Personality, 2000, Vol. 34, 178 - 197
2000
Lucas, R.E.; Clark, A.E.; Diener, E.; Georgellis, Y. Unemployment Alters the Set Point for Life Satisfaction.
Psychological Science, 2004, Vol. 15, 8 - 13
2004
Veenhoven, R. Happiness is Hardship.
Bruni, L.;Porta, P.L.:"Economics and Happiness", Oxford University Press, 2005, UK, 243 - 266
2005
Headey, B. Happiness: Revising Set Point Theory and Dynamic Equilibrium Theory to Account for Long Term Change.
Discussion Paper 607, 2006, DIW, Berlin, Germany
2006
Cummins, R.A.; Nistico, H. Maintaining Life Satisfaction: the Role of Positive Cognitive Bias.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2002, Vol. 3, 37 - 69
2002
Headey, B. The Set-Point Theory of Well-Being: Negative Results and Consequent Revisions.
Social Indicators Research, 2008, Vol. 85, 389 - 403
2008
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
Kohler, H.P.; Behrman, J.R.; Skytthe, A. Partner + Children = Happiness? The Effects of Partnerships and Fertility on Well-Being.
Population and Development Review, 2005, Vol. 31, 407 - 445
2005
Nes, R.B.; Roysamb, E.; Tambs, K. Subjective Well-Being: Genetic and Environmental Contribution to Stability and Change.
Psychological Medicine, 2006, Vol.36, 1033 - 1042.
2006
Cummins, R.A. Subjective Wellbeing, Homeostatically Protected Mood and Depression: A Synthesis.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2010, Vol. 11, 1 - 17
2010
Schimmack, U.; Krause, P.; Wagner, G.G. Stability and Change of Well Being: An Experimentally Enhanced Latent State-Trait-Error Analysis.
Social Indicators Research, 2010, Vol. 95, 19 - 31
2010
Bottan, N. L.; Truglia, R.P. Deconstructing the Hedonic Treadmill: Is Happiness Autoregressive?
Paper, University of San Andrés, 2010. Argentine
2010
Robinson, J.L.; Corley, R.P.; Emde, R.N. Dispositional Cheerfulness. Early Genetic and Environmental Influences.
Emde, R.N.; Hewitt, J.K.: Eds.: ''Infancy to Early Childhood'', Oxford University Press, 2001, New York, USA, 163 - 177
2001
Easterlin, R.A. Explaining Happiness.
Easterlin, R.A., '' Happiness Growth and the Life Cycle'', Oxford University Press, 2010, Oxford, UK, 231 - 247
2010
Uglanova, E. Rethinking the Hedonic Treadmill. Differences in Adaptation Patterns across Events, People and Nations.
Thesis, University of Bremen, 2012, Germany
2012
Easterlin, R.A. Is there an " Iron Law of Happiness"?
IEPR Working Paper 05.8, University of Southern California, 2005, Los Angeles, USA
2005
Cummins, R.A. The Determinants of Happiness.
International Journal of Happiness and Development, 2012, Vol. 1, 86 - 101
2012
Headey, B.; Muffels, R. Trajectories of Life Satisfaction: Positive Feedback loops may explain why Life Satisfaction changes in Multi-Year Waves, rather than Oscillating around a Set-Point.
SOEP Papers, 2014, No. 674, 1 - 46, Melbourne, Australia
2014
Anusic, I.; Lucas, R.E.; Yap, S.C Testing Set-Point Theory in a Swiss National Sample: Reaction and Adaptation to Major Life Events.
Social Indicators Research, 2014, Vol. 119, 1256 -1288
2014
Roysamb, E. Well-Being: Heritable and Changeable
Book: Stability of Happiness, 2014, Chapter 1, 9 - 36
2014
Helliwell, J.F.; Bonikowska, A.; Shiplett, H. Migration as a Test of the Happiness Set Point Hypothesis: Evidence from Immigration to Canada.
NBER Working Paper No. 22601, 1 - 45, Canada.
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