Beyond the hedonic treadmill: Revising the adaptation theory of well-being.

Diener, Ed; Lucas, Richard E.; Scollon, Christie N.

doi:10.1037/0003-066x.61.4.305

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“…34 Pitner cites the work of Diener and colleagues, who have studied the ability of people to adapt over time to new situations and extreme life events. 35,36 There is evidence that intensive and sometimes prolonged psychological interventions can improve psychological well-being 37 ; however we would be interested to know if this has been claimed for any dental or healthcare interventions, other than orthodontics. We undertook a brief search through the literature and were unable to find anything.…”

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What is the value of orthodontic treatment?

2015

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SummaryOrthodontic treatment is as popular as ever. Orthodontists frequently have long lists of people wanting treatment and the cost to the NHS in England was £261m in 2013-14 (approximately 11% of the NHS annual spend on dentistry). It is important that clinicians and healthcare commissioners constantly question the contribution of interventions towards improving the health of the population. In this article the authors outline some of the evidence for and against the claims that people with a malocclusion are at a disadvantage compared with those without a malocclusion and that orthodontic treatment has significant health benefits. The authors would like to point out that this is not a comprehensive and systematic review of the entire scientific literature. Rather the evidence is presented in order to stimulate discussion and debate.

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Section: Psychological Well-beingmentioning

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What is the value of orthodontic treatment?

2015

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“…In contrast to maturity, systematic changes in SWB appear not to be normative during emerging adulthood or at any period in the life span (Diener, Lucas, & Scollon, 2006), except perhaps for slightly higher levels in older adulthood (Mroczek & Kolarz, 1998). Individuals may have a set point for SWB, around which SWB rises and falls over time but to which SWB eventually returns, except in a minority of cases (Diener et al, 2006).…”

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Eudaimonic growth: Narrative growth goals predict increases in ego development and subjective well-being 3 years later.

Bauer

McAdams

2010

Developmental Psychology

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We examine (a) the normative course of eudaimonic well-being in emerging adulthood and (b) whether people's narratives of major life goals might prospectively predict eudaimonic growth 3 years later. We define eudaimonic growth as longitudinal increases in eudaimonic well-being, which we define as the combination of psychosocial maturity and subjective well-being (SWB). College freshmen and seniors took measures of ego development (ED; to assess maturity; Loevinger, 1976) and SWB at Time 1 (T1) and again 3 years later (Time 2). ED levels increased longitudinally across that time for men and T1 freshmen, but SWB levels did not change. Participants also wrote narratives of 2 major life goals at T1 that were coded for an explicit emphasis on specific kinds of personal growth. Participants' intellectualgrowth goals (especially agentic ones) predicted increases in ED 3 years later, whereas participants' socioemotional-growth goals (especially communal ones) predicted increases in SWB 3 years later. These findings were independent of the effects of Big Five personality traits-notably conscientiousness, which on its own predicted increases in SWB. We discuss (a) emerging adulthood as the last stop for normative eudaimonic growth in modern society and (b) empirical and theoretical issues surrounding the relations among narrative identity, life planning, dispositional traits, eudaimonia, and 2 paths of personal growth.

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“…This differentiation is based on the observation that individuals sometimes show a strong variation in their evaluations across different life domains (work, family, health, leisure time, etc.) [28].…”

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Subjective well-being and exercise in the second half of life: a critical review of theoretical approaches

Lehnert

Sudeck

Conzelmann

2012

Eur Rev Aging Phys Act

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Research has shown repeatedly that the "feeling better" effect of exercise is far more moderate than generally claimed. Examinations of subgroups in secondary analyses also indicate that numerous further variables influence this relationship. One reason for inconsistencies in this research field is the lack of adequate theoretical analyses. Well-being output variables frequently possess no construct definition, and little attention is paid to moderating and mediating variables. This article integrates the main models in an overview and analyzes how secondary analyses define well-being and which areas of the construct they focus on. It then applies a moderator and/or mediator framework to examine which person and environmental variables can be found in the existing explanatory approaches in sport science and how they specify the influence of these moderating and mediating variables. Results show that the broad understanding of well-being in many secondary analyses makes findings difficult to interpret. Moreover, physiological explanatory approaches focus more on affective changes in well-being, whereas psychological approaches also include cognitive changes. The approaches focus mostly on either physical or psychological person variables and rarely combine the two, as in, for example, the dual-mode model. Whereas environmental variables specifying the treatment more closely (e.g., its intensity) are comparatively frequent, only the social support model formulates variables such as the framework in which exercise is presented. The majority of explanatory approaches use simple moderator and/or mediator models such as the basic mediated (e.g., distraction hypothesis) or multiple mediated (e.g., monoamine hypotheses) model. The discussion draws conclusions for future research.Keywords Well-being . Exercise . Mediation . Moderation . Explanatory approaches Everyday assumptions about the effects of exercise on wellbeing are unanimously positive-as numerous popular science books confirm with promising titles such as The aerobics programs for total well-being [1] or Life skills: 225 ready-to-use health activities for success and well-being [2]. Even in the early years of scientific research in this field, few would have disagreed with the statement that "the 'feeling better' sensation that accompanies regular physical activity is so obvious that it is one of the few universally accepted benefits of exercise" ([3], p. 306). Nonetheless, a host of primary studies carried out between 1960 and the mid-1990s delivered no unequivocal confirmation of this hypothesis. As a result, studies since the 1990s have increasingly been integrated and compared in both narrative (e.g., [4,5]) and meta-analytic reviews (e.g., [6,7]).In contrast to popular science claims, quantitative secondary analyses reveal that the overall effects on (subjective) well-being (SWB) 1 are not only small but also show a great deal of variation. For example, McAuley and Rudolph ([8], p. 68) have written: "Although many studies extol the almost intui...

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Beyond the hedonic treadmill: Revising the adaptation theory of well-being.

Cited by 1,453 publications

References 61 publications

What is the value of orthodontic treatment?

What is the value of orthodontic treatment?

Eudaimonic growth: Narrative growth goals predict increases in ego development and subjective well-being 3 years later.

Subjective well-being and exercise in the second half of life: a critical review of theoretical approaches

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