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Bibliographic Subjects » MODES OF EMPIRICAL HAPPINESS RESEARCH » People investigated: some much studied populations » Happiness in twins

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MODES OF EMPIRICAL HAPPINESS RESEARCH People investigated: some much studied populations Happiness in twins
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Happiness in twins, monozygotic, dizygotic
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List of Publications on this Subject

Authors Title / Source Year Tellegen, A.; Bouchard, T.J.; Lykken, D.T.; Rich, S. Personality Similarity in Twins Reared Apart and Together.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1988, Vol. 54, 1031 - 1041 1988 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 Langinvainio, H.; Kaprio, J.; Koskenvuo, M.; Lönnqvist, J. Finnish Twins Reared Apart, III: Personality Factors.
Acta Geneticae Medicae et Gemellologiae, 1984, Vol. 33, 259 - 264 1984 Loehlin, J.C.; Nichols, R.C. Heredity, Environment and Personality. A Study of 850 Sets of Twins.
University of Texas Press, 1976, Austin, USA 1976 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 Watanabe, S.; Munaka, M.; Okamoto, N.; Ueoka, H. Basic Survey on Atomic-Bomb-Exposed and Nonexposed Twin Pairs: Pilot Case Study from a Sociohistorical Viewpoint.
Gedda, L.;et al;Eds.: "Twin Research 3, Alan R. Liss, 1981, New York, USA, 259 - 269 1981 Langinvainio, H.; Kaprio, J.; Koskenvuo, M.; Tarkkonen, L. Structural Analysis of Smoking, Alcohol Use, and Personality Factors in MZ and DZ Twin Pair Relationships.
Gedda, L.;et al;Eds.: "Twin Research 3" , 1981, Alan R. Liss, New York, USA, 23 - 25 1981 Koskenvuo, M.; Kaprio, J.; Langinvainio, H.; Romo, M.; Sarna, S. Coronary-Prone Behavior in Adult Same-Sexed Male Twins: An Epidemiological Study.
Gedda, L.;et al;Eds.: "Twin Research 3", Alan R. Liss, 1983, New York, USA, 139 - 148 1981 Liljefors, I.; Rahe, R.H. An Identical Twin Study of Psychosocial Factors in Coronary Heart Disease in Sweden.
Psychosomatic Medicine, 1970, Vol. 32, 523 - 531 1970 Korkeila, M.; Kaprio, J.; Rissanen, A. Predictors of Major Weight Gain in Adult Finns: Stress, Life Satisfaction and Personality Traits.
International Journal of Obesity, 1998, Vol. 22, 949 - 957 1998 Johnson, W.; Krueger, R.F. How Money buys Happiness: Genetic and Environmental Process linking Finances and Life Satisfaction.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2006, Vol.90, 680 - 691. 2006 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 Bartels, M.; Boomsma, D.I. Born to be Happy? The Etiology of Subjective Well-Being.
Behavior Genetics, 2009, Vol. 39, 605 - 617 2009 Bartels, M.; , G.; DeMoor, M. H.; Viatcheslav, S Heritability and Genome-Wide Linkage Scan of Subjective Happiness.
Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2010, Vol. 13, 135 -142 2010 DeNeve, J.E.; Christakis, N.A.; Fowler, J.H.; Frey, B.S. Genes, Economics and Happiness.
Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 2012, Vol. 5, 193 - 211 2012 Schnittker, J Happiness and Success: Genes, Families, and the Psychological Effects of Socioeconomic Position and Social Support.
American Journal of Sociology, 2008, Vol. 114, 223 - 259 2008 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 Nes, R.B.; Reichborn-Kjennerud, T.; Roysamb, E. Subjective Wellbeing and Sleep Problems: a bivariate twin Study.
Twin Research and Human genetics, 2005, Vol. 8, 440 - 449 2005 Berg, A.I. Life Satisfaction in late life: Markers and predictors of Level and Change among 80+ Year Olds.
Ph. D. Thesis, University of Gothenburg, 2008, Sweden 2008 Stubbe, J.H.; Boomsma, D.I.; Posthuma, D. Heritability of Life Satisfaction in Adults: A Twin-Family Study.
Psychological Medicine, 2005, Vol. 35, 1581 - 1588 2005 Stubbe, J.H.; Boomsma, A.; DeMoor, M. H. The Association between Exercise Participation and Well-being: a co-twin Study.
Preventive Medicine, 2007, Vol. 44, 148 - 152 2007 Bartels, M.; Cacioppo, J.T.; VanBeijsterveldt, T.C. Exploring the Association between Well-being and Psychopathology in Adolescents.
Behavioral Genetics, 2013, Vol. 43, 177 - 190 2013 Emde, R.N.; Campos, J.J.; Corley, R.P.; DeFries, J.; Fulker, D. W.; Kagan, J.; Plomin, R.; Reznick, J.S.; Robinson, J.L.; Zahn-Waxler, C. Temperament, Emotion, and Cognition at Fourteen Months: The MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study
Child Development, Vol. 63, No. 6 (Dec., 1992), pp.1437-1455 1992 Plomin, R.; Braungart, J.M.; Campos, J.J.; Corley, R.P.; DeFries, J.; Emde, R.N.; Fulker, D. W.; Kagan, J.; Reznick, J.S.; Robinson, J.L.; Zahn-Waxler, C. Genetic change and continuity from fourteen to twenty months: The MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study
Society for Research in Child Development; Child Development, 1993, 64, 1354-1376 1993 Harris, J.R.; Pedersen, N.L.; Stacey, C.A. Age Differences in the Etiology of the Relationship Between Life Satisfaction and Self-Related Health.
Journal of Aging and Health, 1992, Vol. 3, 349 - 368 1992 Franz, C.E.; Eaves, L.J.; Panizzon, M.S. Genetic and Environmental Multidimensionality of Well- and Ill-Being in Middle Aged Twin Men.
Behavior Genetics, 2012, Vol. 42, 579 - 591 2012 Li, H.; Liu, P.W.; Ye, M.; Zhang, J. Does Money Buy Happiness? Evidence from Twins in Urban China.
Paper, based on benefits of authors (seminars), 2014, China 2014 Matheny, A.P. Bayley's Infant Behavior Record: Behavioral Components and Twin Analyses.
Child Development, 1980, Vol. 51, 1157 - 1167 1980 DeNeve, J.E.; Oswald, A.J. Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on later Income using Sibling Fixed Effects.
PNAS, 2012, Vol. 109, 19953 -19958. London, UK 2012 Khattab, N.; Fenton, S. What Makes Young Adults Happy? Employment and Non-work as Determents of Life Satisfaction.
Sociology, 2009, Vol. 43, 11 - 26 2009 Sadler, M.E.; Christensen, K.; Miller, C.J. Subjective Wellbeing and Longevity: A Co-Twin Control Study.
Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2011 Vol. 14, 249 - 256 2011 Arrindell, W.A.; Feij, J.A.; Heesink, J.A. The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS): Appraisal with 1700 Healthy Young Adults in The Netherlands.
Personality and Individual Differences, 1999, Vol. 26, 815 - 826 1999 Vinberg, M.; Bech, P.; Kyvik, K.O. Quality of Life in Unaffected Twins Discordant for Affective Disorder.
Journal of Affective Disorder, 2007, Vol 99, 133 - 138 2007 Schnitzlein, D.D.; Wunder, C. Are we architects of our own happiness? The Importance of Family Background for Well-being.
Soep Paper, 2014, No. 700, Bonn, Germany 2014 Caprara, G.V.; Alessandri, G.; Fagnani, J. Human Optimal Functioning: The Genetics of Positive Orientation Towards Self, Life, and the Future.
Behavior and Genetics, 2009, Vol. 39 277 - 284 2009 Nes, R.B.; Czajkowski, N.O.; Roysamb, E. Major Depression and Life Satisfaction: A Population-based Twin Study.
Journal of Affective Disorders, 2012, Vol. 144, 51 - 58 2012 VanderAa, N.; Bartels, M.; Boomsma, D.I. Moderation of Genetic Factors by Parental Divorce in Adolescents’ Evaluations of Family Functioning and Subjective Wellbeing.
Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2010, Vol. 13, 143 - 162 2010 Keyes, C.L.; Kendler, K.S.; Martin, C.C.; Myers, J.M. The Genetic Overlap and Distinctiveness of Flourishing and the Big Five Personality Traits
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2015, Vol. 16, 655 - 668 2015 Roysamb, E.; Harris, J.R.; Tambs, K. Happiness and Health: Environmental and Genetic Contribution to the Relationship between Subjective Well-Being, Perceived Health, and Somatic Illness.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003, Vol.85, 1136 - 1146 2003 Hahn, E.A.; Johnson, W.; Spinath, F.M. Beyond the Heritability of Life Satisfaction - The Roles of Personality and Twin - Specific Influences.
Journal of Research in Personality, 2013, Vol. 47, 757 - 767 2013 Bartels, M.; Boomsma, D.I.; VanderAa, N. Regular Exercise, Subjective Wellbeing, and Internalizing Problems in Adolescence: Causality or Genetic Pleiotropy?
Frontiers in Genetics, 2012, Vol.3, 1 - 12 2012 Koivumaa-Honkanen, H.T.; Kaprio, J. Self-reported Life Satisfaction and Alcohol use: A 15-year follow-up of Healthy Adult Twins.
Alcohol & Alcoholism, 2012, Vol. 47,160 - 168 2012 Baselmans, B.M.l.; Bartels, M.; Boomsma, D.I.; Dolan, C. V.; Ligthart, R. S. L.; van Beijsterveld, C.E.M.; Willems, Y.E.; Willemsen, A. H. M. Unraveling the Genetic and Environmental Relationship Between Well-Being and Depressive Symptoms Throughout the Lifespan.
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018, Vol. 9, online, 1 - 12 2018 Roysamb, E.; Nes, R.B. The Genetics of Well-being.
NOBASCHOLAR, 2018, E. Diener, S. Oishi, & L. Tay (Eds.), Handbook of well-being, 1 - 21 2018 Gatt, J.M.; Burton, K.L.O.; Schofield, P.R. The Heritability of Mental Health And Wellbeing Defined Using COMPAS-,A New Composite Measure of Wellbeing.
Psychiatry Research, 2014, Vol. 219, 204 - 213 2014 Nes, R.B.; Czajkowski, N.O.; Roysamb, E. Well-Being and Ill-Being: Shared Environments, Shared Genes?
The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2008, Vol. 3, 253 - 265 2012 Paunio, T.; Hublin, C.; Korhonen, T. Longitudinal Study on Poor Sleep and Life Dissatisfaction in a Nationwide Cohort of Twins.
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2009, Vol. 69, 206 - 213 2009 Baselmans, B.M.l.; Nivard, M.G.; VanDongen, J. Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Wellbeing
Twin Research and Human Genetics,2015, Vol. 18, 710-719 2015 Baselmans, B.M.l.; Abdellaoui, A.; VanderWeijer, M.P. A Genetic Investigation of the Well-Being Spectrum
Working Paper, 2018, VU Research Portal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2018 Ent van 't, D; Baselmans, B.M.l.; Braber den, A.; Brouwer, R.M. Associations between Subjective Well-Being and Subcortical Brain Volumes
Scientific Reports, 2017, Vol. 7, Art. Nr. 6957 2017 haworth, C.M.A.; Layous, K.; Nelson, S. K. Stability and Change in Genetic and Environmental Influences on Well-Being in Response to an Intervention
PLOS One, 2016, Vol. 11, e0155538 2016 Lillberg, K.; Kaprio, J.; Verkasalo, P.K. A Prospective Study of Life Satisfaction, Neuroticism and Breast Cancer Risk (Finland)
Cancer Causes and Control, 2002, Vol. 13, 191-198 2002