2013
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.156
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The affective profiles in the USA: happiness, depression, life satisfaction, and happiness-increasing strategies

Abstract: Background. The affective profiles model categorizes individuals as self-fulfilling (high positive affect, low negative affect), high affective (high positive affect, high negative affect), low affective (low positive affect, low negative affect), and self-destructive (low positive affect, high negative affect). The model has been used extensively among Swedes to discern differences between profiles regarding happiness, depression, and also life satisfaction. The aim of the present study was to investigate suc… Show more

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“…In the present study we aim to replicate the Schütz and colleagues' findings [1] using a merged larger sample described in Nima and Garcia's study [37]. Although this sample also comprises the original cohort from Schütz and colleagues [1], we used a two times larger sample (see [38], who suggest the use of larger samples when replicating results).…”
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confidence: 91%
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“…In the present study we aim to replicate the Schütz and colleagues' findings [1] using a merged larger sample described in Nima and Garcia's study [37]. Although this sample also comprises the original cohort from Schütz and colleagues [1], we used a two times larger sample (see [38], who suggest the use of larger samples when replicating results).…”
Section: The Present Studymentioning
confidence: 91%
“…In the pursuit of happiness, for instance, people seem to use eight specific strategies to maintain or increase happiness [29,30]: social affiliation, partying and clubbing, instrumental goal pursuit, mental control, active leisure, passive leisure, direct attempts, and religion (see Table 1 for a definition of each strategy). In this context, depending on their affective profile, individuals should differ in which strategies they use to increase their happiness, since individuals with different profiles vary in aspects of cognition, emotion, and conation [1,20,24,31].…”
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