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Bibliographic Subjects » DETERMINANTS OF HAPPINESS » Striking the balance of life » Mental processes » Reflect an attitude » Is happiness a trait?

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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. 2016