Life Satisfaction

Some articles on life satisfaction, life:

Broaden-and-build - Meditation and The Hedonic Treadmill
... The Broaden-and-Build model addresses this issue by arguing that life satisfaction is achieved through a pathway that includes positive emotions causing a person to build resources which can be drawn ... to go straight from positive emotions to life-satisfaction due to the hedonic treadmill effect ...
Negative Affectivity
... Negative affectivity is strongly related to life satisfaction ... In fact, the content similarities between these affective traits and life satisfaction have led some researchers to view both PA/NA and life satisfaction as specific indicators of the broader construct of ...
Hedonic Treadmill - Major Theoretical Approaches - Behavioral/psychological Approach
... concluded that everyone returns to the same neutral set point after a significantly emotional life event ... for example, people showed individual differences in how they responded to particular life events, such as divorce and widowhood ... may have more than one happiness set point, such as a life satisfaction set point and a subjective well being set point, and that one's level of happiness is not just one given set point but can vary within ...
The Effects of Positive Affectivity
... Positive affectivity is an integral part of everyday life ... PA is also strongly related to life satisfaction ... In fact, the content similarities between these affective traits and life satisfaction have led some researchers to view both PA, NA, and life satisfaction as specific indicators of the ...
Christopher Peterson (psychologist) - Research On Character Strengths
... Happiness or life-satisfaction is associated with pleasure, engagement, and meaning in one's life ... All 24 character strengths are correlated with life-satisfaction, but the ones most associated with life-satisfaction are hope, zest, gratitude, curiosity, and love ... disorder, there is less of a toll on life satisfaction if he or she is high on the character strengths of bravery, kindness, and humor ...

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