... contribute to the emotional implications of acts of kindness over time when recollecting these memories. The current work addresses these research gaps in two preregistered experimental studies. Specifically, we examined the well-being benefits of recalling memories of acts of kindness toward others...

... well-being. This review gives an overview of the literature on the role of NFC in well-being in healthy adults by combining random-effects meta-analyses and a qualitative integration of evidence. Studies investigating NFC and facets of well-being were acquired via database searches and a call...

...Sarah Schneider; Thomas Lösch; Daniel Schneider; Astrid Schütz; Brent Donnellan During adolescence, what is more important for educational achievement, well-being, and the formation of positive social relationships: being competent, having positive thoughts about oneself, or a complex relationship...

...) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. well-being within-person variability response styles intraindividual variability There is growing interest in psychological research in investigating...

... extraverted behavior (or a control task). We assessed positive affect and several indicators of well-being during pretest (day 1) and post-test (day 7), as well as ‘in-the-moment’ (days 2-6). Participants who engaged in extraverted behavior reported greater levels of positive affect ‘in-the-moment’ when...

... practices to examine key variables that should catalyze the benefits of prosocial spending. 13 04 2019 11 12 2019 well-being happiness prosocial spending prosocial behaviour self-determination theory Weinstein & Ryan ( 2010 ) argued that giving to others should fulfill...

...Kaitlyn M. Werner, PhD; Aidan Smyth; Marina Milyavskaya; M. Brent Donnellan; M. Brent Donnellan Past research consistently finds that the pursuit of extrinsic goals detracts from our happiness and well-being, and instead contributes to ill-being. Despite the robustness of this finding, recent...

...Hong Zhang; Kaiyuan Chen; Rebecca Schlegel; Joshua Hicks; Changkai Chen; Simine Vazire; Yoel Inbar Authentic experiences are deeply tied to human existential concerns and have implications for psychological well-being and optimal functioning. Importantly, previous studies suggest a mutually...

... involves a weighting procedure because individuals care about different parts of their lives to varying degrees. Thus, composite measures of well-being should be more accurate if domain satisfaction scores are weighted by the importance that respondents assign to the respective domains. Previous studies...

...Carol A. Nickerson In a study of the relation between well-being and gene expression, Fredrickson et al. ( 2013 , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 110 (33), 13684–13689) concluded that hedonic well-being and eudaimonic well-being have similar affective correlates...