On the cognitive basis of subjective well-being analysis: What do individuals have to say about it?

Dubé, Lise; Jodoin, Mathieu; Kairouz, Sylvia

doi:10.1037/h0087053

Cited by 15 publications

(19 citation statements)

References 75 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Additionally, our results are consistent with previous suggestions that lay theories change with age (Dube et al 1998;Furnham 2001). Responses written on the WOWs at the kindergarten-elementary school and the junior-high school differed.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…Additionally, Dube et al (1998) reported that both young adults and their parents believe that internal factors influence subjective well-being more than external factors, however parents attribute a greater role to external factors than do young adults. Given that lay theories vary with age, a comprehensive exploration of lay theories requires the study of children and adolescents.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Walls of Well-Being (WOWs): a Pilot Study of a New Methodology to Explore Children’s and Adolescents’ Perceived Sources of Happiness

Holder

Broom

Berg

et al. 2016

Int J Appl Posit Psychol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Lay theories are everyday explanations and attributions given for psychological phenomena. They are important because they affect people's behaviours and cognitions. Lay theories have typically been studied using interviews and surveys of individuals. We describe a pilot study that employed a new, community-based, methodology that we used to explore children's and adolescents' lay theories of happiness. We collected 802 responses to the phrase BI feel happy when ______^which was stencilled repeatedly on large walls we called Walls of Well-Being (WOWs) installed in a kindergarten-elementary school and a junior-high school. An interpretive, grounded theory approach for coding these qualitative data was used. Five main themes emerged in the children/adolescents' responses: Activities, Relationships, Other Oriented, Personal Feelings, and Receiving. Chi-square analyses revealed significant differences in the prevalence of response themes between the two schools demonstrating that the WOWs are sensitive to community differences. Advantages and disadvantages of the WOWs methodology are discussed as well as suggestions for mitigating disadvantages in future studies utilizing WOWs. This new method holds promise as an assessment tool that could be applied across a wide range of psychological phenomena (e.g., gratitude and hope) and environments (e.g., hospitals and businesses).

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Walls of Well-Being (WOWs): a Pilot Study of a New Methodology to Explore Children’s and Adolescents’ Perceived Sources of Happiness

Holder

Broom

Berg

et al. 2016

Int J Appl Posit Psychol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Although several studies have examined temporal and social comparisons as predictors of LS (Davern, Cummins, & Stokes, 2008;Dube, Jodoin, & Kairouz, 1998;Michalos, 1985;Sheldon & Hoon, 2008), few self-evaluation studies have examined the impact of social comparison processes on temporal self-comparisons. Of particular relevance, findings suggest that social comparisons may influence the outcome of temporal self-comparisons and that the magnitude of selfother discrepancies may vary across temporal perspectives (Haddock, 2006;Kanten & Teigen, 2008;Wilson & Ross, 2001).…”

Section: Research Combining Temporal and Social Comparison Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deciphering Subjective Trajectories for Life Satisfaction Using Self–Versus–Normative Other Discrepancies, Self–Esteem and Hope

2014

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Drawing on temporal and social comparison perspectives, we examined sources of the widespread belief that life gets better and better over time by determining how young adults evaluate their past, present and anticipated future life satisfaction (LS) relative to beliefs about normative others. We assessed whether patterns of subjective LS trajectories based on self-versus-normative other discrepancies varied as a function of self-esteem and whether such patterns were accounted for by hope, encompassing goal-related cognitions and motivations. University participants (n = 394) completed measures of their own and normative others' past, present and anticipated future LS, as well as self-esteem and hope scales. Results from latent growth curve analyses demonstrated that high-self-esteem and low-self-esteem individuals perceived normative others' LS as progressing on a similar upward subjective temporal trajectory; however, high-self-esteem individuals perceived self-improvement from past to present LS and self-consistency from present to future LS relative to others. Low-self-esteem individuals perceived self-consistency from past to present LS and self-improvement from present to future LS relative to others. These associations were accounted for by hope. This research highlights the utility of combining temporal and social comparison perspectives for understanding how people envision their LS unfolding over time. norm-adjusted LS, but were not significantly associated with the subjective trajectories based on ratings of normative others.Deciphering subjective trajectories 113

show abstract

“…He argues that only 10% of the individual evaluation of concurrent life satisfaction is based on the own past, while 90% is based on current mood and emotions, future aspirations, and comparisons with other people (see also Frey and Stutzer 2002). Dubé et al (1998) dierentiate between social, temporal and telic comparisons. Social comparisons refer to people comparing themselves to other people, either similar or dierent (e.g., less or more fortunate).…”

Section: Concurrently Vs Retrospectively Reported Life Satisfactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Telic comparisons refer to people comparing their current living conditions to their aims and aspirations (see Dubé et al 1998, for a detailed discussion of comparison standards). McBride (2010) and Barr (2010) The recall period consitutes another important dierence.…”

Section: Concurrently Vs Retrospectively Reported Life Satisfactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

You Don't Know What You've Got Till It's Gone! Unemployment and Intertemporal Changes in Self-Reported Life Satisfaction

Klemm

2011

SSRN Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The working papers published in the Series constitute work in progress circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comments. Views expressed represent exclusively the authors' own opinions and do not necessarily refl ect those of the editors. Terms of use: Documents in Ruhr Economic Papers #297

show abstract

On the cognitive basis of subjective well-being analysis: What do individuals have to say about it?

Cited by 15 publications

References 75 publications

Walls of Well-Being (WOWs): a Pilot Study of a New Methodology to Explore Children’s and Adolescents’ Perceived Sources of Happiness

Walls of Well-Being (WOWs): a Pilot Study of a New Methodology to Explore Children’s and Adolescents’ Perceived Sources of Happiness

Deciphering Subjective Trajectories for Life Satisfaction Using Self–Versus–Normative Other Discrepancies, Self–Esteem and Hope

You Don't Know What You've Got Till It's Gone! Unemployment and Intertemporal Changes in Self-Reported Life Satisfaction

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About