Subjective Well-being

Question 1

What are the triad measures of subjective well-being?

Answer 1

1. life satisfaction.
2. happiness.
3. (low) neuroticism.

Question 2

What are the measures of subjective well-being?

Answer 2

1. Satisfaction With Life Scale. SWLS
2. Scale of Positive and Negative Experience. SPANE
3. Flourishing Scale. FS

Question 3

What is the ‘dark side’ of subjective well-being?

Answer 3

Optimal level of sub. well-being, extreme happiness can lead to a decrease in attention, selfish behaviour, susceptible to positive illusions, Stocksdale paradox.

Question 4

What are the bottom-up predictors of subjective well-being?

Answer 4

Money, gender, age, race, education, climate and politics.

Question 5

What are the top-down predictors of subjective well-being?

Answer 5

Cognition, attitude, positive relationships and personality traits.

Question 6

Explain the relation between money and subjective well-being.

Answer 6

Liveability theory.
Poverty is a better predictor than having money.
Curvilinear relationship.
Money can increase well-being, depending on what you spend it on: personality matched spending.

Question 7

Explain cognition as predictor of subjective well-being.

Answer 7

Learned optimism vs realistic optimism. Optimism influences coping styles, relationships.

Sense of control is linked to avoiding and managing motivational conflict.

Positive social comparisons and positive illusions.