...Sarah Schneider; Thomas Lösch; Daniel Schneider; Astrid Schütz 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 between the two...

... are response style measures while all other measures are intraindividual variability measures 75648 Table 4. Correlations and partial correlations between response style measures, interindividual variability measures and well-being outcome measures in FLIP Correlations Partial...

... (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 compared to introverted...

... messages supporting their autonomy ( n = 51) exhibited the greatest improvements in well-being compared to participants in all other conditions ( ns = 50–59). As far as we know, the three studies described above provide the only evidence to date that people reap greater emotional rewards from...

...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...