Science of Happiness & Well Being Flashcards

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Subjective well-being

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A persons own assessment of their happiness and satisfaction with life.

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What are the 3 common orientations to happiness

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  1. Meaning - having a larger purpose
  2. Pleasure - pursuit of pleasure & excitement
  3. Engagement - Pursuit of engagement with tasks, time passing by quickly because you are enjoying what you are doing
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Explanatory style

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Ones habitual way of explaining life event, explains an event, what aspects the person focuses on (positive or negative aspects)

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Negative explanatory style

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Attributes failure to state stable, global & internal causes

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Negative Stable cause

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Issue that will last forever

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Negative Global cause

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Will only affect an area of one’s life/ will affect all of the persons life

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Negative Internal cause

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Situation, Context contributed to failure/self-blame

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Gratitude as a means of improving well being (2005)

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Results: Those in gratitude (wrote down what they were thankful for over a 10 week span) reported feeling better about their lives, greater optimism about the future & less physical complaints.

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Broaden Build Theory (Fredrickson, 2002)

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  • Positive emotions:
    (a) enable people to think of more solutions
    (b) help you become more resilient
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Aerobic exercise & subjective well-being (Babyak, 2000)

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  • Overcoming depression

- Results: people who just exercised (no medicine, or combo of both) were less likely to be depressed

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Anticipation of future positive experiences & subjective well being (Macleod & Conway, 2005)

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Results: The anticipation of positive experience & more anticipated positive experience was associated with better subjective well being.

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Presentation, decision making & happiness (Hsee, 2008)

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  • Separate or spread out the positive news & combine the negative news (good news tell on different days, bad news all at once)
  • Tell people about positive events in advance & but not at all for bad (taking a kid to the dentist, just put the kid in the car, don’t tell them before hand)
  • Many choices are actually bad for desirable options & good for undesirable options (choosing many good options can be debilitating & can cause anxiety = limit options)
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Problem focused coping

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Cognitive & behavioral efforts to ALTER a stressful situation

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Emotion focused coping

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Cognitive & behavioral efforts to REDUCE the distress produced by a stressful situation.

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Proactive coping

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Upfront effort to get rid of or modify the beginning of a stressful situation.

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Social support

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Coping resources provided by friends, family & other ppl.

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Stress

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Unpleasant state in which people perceive the demands of an event as exceeding ability to meet those demands.

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Apraisal

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Judgements people make about the demands of a potential stressful event & their ability to meet those demands

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Coping

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Efforts to reduce stress

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Stressor

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Anything that causes stress

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PTSD

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Physical & psychological symptoms that occur after an extremely` stressful event.

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General adaption syndrome

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3 stages of how the body responds to stress

  1. Alarm (Physiological)
  2. Resistance (Body remains aroused on alert)
  3. Exhaustion (stress persisting)
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Learned helplessness

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Experience of an uncontrollable event that creates passive behaviors.

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Depressive explanatory style

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Tendency to attribute negative events to causes that are stable, global & internal.

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Self-efficacy

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extent or strength of one’s belief in one’s own ability to complete tasks and reach goals