Midterm questions Flashcards
Major components of SWB
- Life satisfaction
- High positive affect
- Low negative affect
Phlegmatic
Low negative affect and low positive affect
T/F Happy people tend to show a bias in which they under-remember bad events and over-remember good ones
True, called the positivity effect
In almost all countries, people who have the highest incomes on average tend to be:
More happy than their poorer peers
Correlates with more happiness
Marriage
Strong social network
Enjoyable job
Income
NOT: kids
Extraverted stable
someone with high extraversion and low neuroticism
Spending money on ____ has been found to be associated with the most benefits in SWB
Vacations, concerts, donating to charity
NOT: sports cars
Hedonism
Type of happiness in which we strive to maximize pleasure
Gottman’s positivity ratio
There needs to be 5 positives for each negative just to be at a neutral level
The happiest countries tend to be
Least religious
Demographic related with more life satisfaction
More education (moderated thru income)
Bottom-up approach to SWB
Happiness is explained as the sum of many small pleasurable and positive moments, such as social relationships, income, living situation, etc
Positivity bias
Happy people tend to be optimistic, feel a sense of control, see the good in people, and generally have a positive outlook on life
Carver and Scheier found that people high in optimism
recover faster from surgeries
Learned helplessness
Depressed people tend to feel like they have no control over their current problematic situation and negative feelings
Self-adaptation
Costa and McCrae found that happy and unhappy people have different coping strategies when they are confronted with a negative or stressful situation
______ is an example of a positive coping strategy
Situation we do not adapt to
Unemployment
10 basic human values
- Achievement
- Conformity
- Benevolence
- Self direction
- Stimulation
- Hedonism
- Power
- Security
- Tradition
- Universalism
Not: Leisure
Self-affirmations
Process of identifying most important values and most important role
Working towards goals can positively influence our well-being. Which goal characteristic has Not been helpful in boosting well-being?
Being extrinsically motivated
But: being intrinsically motivated, self-concordant, and approach oriented help
Example of intrinsic reason for working towards goals
To gain autonomy
People who focus on achieving extrinsic goals rather than intrinsic goals tend to have
Greater drug use
D-Love
Deficiency love, they counter-balance you
You love the person because of their dedication to you
Theory of Flow
Challenge and skill must balance
