Diener / Diener. Assessing Well-Being

The Collected Works of Ed Diener
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-90-481-2354-4
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 39, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Social Indicators Research Series

The Sandvik, Diener, and Seidlitz (1993) paper is another that has received widespread attention because it documented the fact that self-report well-being scales correlate with a number of other methods of measuring the same concepts, such as with reports by knowledgeable 'informants' (family and friends), expe- ence sampling measurement, and the memory for good versus bad life events. A single factor was found to underlie measures using different methods, and a n- ber of different well-being self-report measures were found to correlate with the non-self-report measures. Thus, although the self-report measures of well-being are imperfect, and can be in uenced by response artifacts, they have substantial validity as shown by their correlations with measurements based on alternative methods. Whereas the Pavot and Diener article reviewed the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Lucas, Diener, and Larsen (2003) paper reviews various approaches to assessing positive emotions. As we wrote in the chapter in this volume in which we present new measures, we do not consider any of the existing measures of positive affect to be entirely acceptable for measuring subjective well-being in the affect area, and that is why we have created and validated a new measure.

Ed Diener is the Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois. He received his doctorate at the University of Washington in 1974, and has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois for the past 34 years. Dr. Diener was the president of both the International Society of Quality of Life Studies and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. Currently he is the president of the International Positive Psychology Association. Dr. Diener was the editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Journal of Happiness Studies, and he is the founding editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science. Diener has over 240 publications, with about 190 being in the area of the psychology of well-being, and is listed as one of the most highly cited psychologists by the Institute of Scientific Information with over 12,000 citations to his credit. He won the Distinguished Researcher Award from the International Society of Quality of Life Studies, the first Gallup Academic Leadership Award, and the Jack Block Award for Personality Psychology. Dr. Diener also won several teaching awards, including the Oakley-Kundee Award for Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Illinois.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Contributors;8
3;Endorsements;10
4;Editor’s note concerning source publications;12
5;Introduction – MeasuringWell-Being: Collected Theory and Review Works;13
5.1;Progress on AssessingWell-Being;13
5.2;Overview of this Volume;14
5.3;References;17
6;Temporal Stability and Cross-Situational Consistency of Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Responses;19
6.1;Method;22
6.2;Mood Form;23
6.3;Results;25
6.4;Discussion;31
6.5;References;34
7;Assessing Subjective Well-Being: Progress and Opportunities;37
7.1;Progress to Date: The Current Status of SWB Measurement;39
7.2;Correlates of SWB;46
7.3;Divergent Validity;47
7.4;Advancing Subjective Well-Being Measurement: Developments in Other Areas of Psychology;48
7.5;Developing New Measures;63
7.6;Future Research;67
7.7;Conclusion;67
7.8;References;69
8;The Evolving Concept of SubjectiveWell-Being: The Multifaceted Nature of Happiness;78
8.1;Evolving Conceptions of Subjective Well-Being: The Multifaceted Nature of Happiness;78
8.2;Hierarchical Structure: The Components of SWB;82
8.3;Temporal Sequence and Stages;90
8.4;Stability and Consistency of SWB;93
8.5;Affect vs. Cognition;95
8.6;The Functioning Mood System;97
8.7;Tradeoffs;98
8.8;Implications for Measurement;99
8.9;Implications for Research on Aging;102
8.10;Conclusions: The Take-Home Message(s) and Directions for Future Research;104
8.11;References;105
8.12;Review of the SatisfactionWith Life Scale;112
8.13;Characteristics of the SWLS;114
8.14;Discussion;123
8.15;Appendix: Satisfaction with Life Scale;125
8.16;References;125
9;SubjectiveWell-Being: The Convergence and Stability of Self-Report and Non-Self-Report Measures;129
9.1;Method;135
9.2;Results;137
9.3;Discussion;145
9.4;References;146
9.5;Measuring Positive Emotions;149
9.6;Definition and Models of Positive Emotions;150
9.7;Methods of Assessment;153
9.8;Future Developments in the Measurement of Positive Emotions;160
9.9;Conclusion;161
9.10;Appendix 1: Intensity and Time Affect Survey (ITAS);161
9.11;Appendix 2: The Satisfaction With Life Scale;162
9.12;References;162
10;Experience Sampling: Promises and Pitfalls, Strengths andWeaknesses;166
10.1;What is ESM? A Brief History;167
10.2;Promises and Strengths;168
10.3;Pitfalls and Weaknesses;173
10.4;Future Direction;183
10.5;Conclusions;184
10.6;References;185
10.7;Life-Satisfaction Is a Momentary Judgment and a Stable Personality Characteristic: The Use of Chronically Accessible and Stable Sources;190
10.8;Integrating the Social Cognition and the Personality Tradition;191
10.9;Why Do People Use Certain Types of Information?;192
10.10;Integrating Top-Down and Bottom-Up Models of Life-Satisfaction;193
10.11;Studying Chronically Accessible Sources: The Validity of Source Reports;194
10.12;Overview;196
10.13;Part I: The Validity of Source Reports;196
10.14;Part II: Chronically Accessible and Stable Sources Mediate the Influence of Personality Traits on Life-Satisfaction;214
10.15;General Discussion;217
10.16;References;218
11;Happiness is the Frequency, Not the Intensity, of Positive Versus Negative Affect;221
11.1;Introduction;221
11.2;Measurement;222
11.3;The Composition of Happiness;225
11.4;Intense Positive Affect;230
11.5;Conclusions;236
11.6;References;238
12;Income’s Differential Influence on Judgments of Life Versus AffectiveWell-Being;240
12.1;Introduction;240
12.2;Methods;243
12.3;Results;244
12.4;References;251
13;New Measures ofWell-Being;253
13.1;Why New Scales?;254
13.2;The Current Study;259
13.3;Results;262
13.4;Discussion;266
13.5;Future Research;267
13.6;Appendix: The Scales;268
13.7;PsychologicalWell-Being Scale (PWB);269
13.8;Positive Thinking Scale (PTS);269
13.9;References;270
14;Conclusion: Future Directions in Measuring Well-Being;273
14.1;What We Have Learned So Far;273
14.2;Methodological Issues Beyond Measurement;275
14.3;What We Do Not Need;276
14.4;What We Need Now;276
14.5;Conclusions;279
14.6;References;279