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MEASURING QUALITY OF LIFE: ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND SUBJECTIVE INDICATORS
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“The affective part is an evaluation influenced by emotions and feelings, for example, the frequency by which individuals experience pleasant or unpleasant moods in reaction to life circumstances (Diener, 1997).”
From Psychological Well-Being and Its Relationships with Active and Passive Procrastination (2015) · cites this paper as Diener, 1997
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“Diener (1997) inferred that the cognitive component of psychological well-being is an information-based appraisal of ones life satisfaction.”
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Self-citationФАКТОРЫ ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО БЛАГОПОЛУЧИЯ ЛЮДЕЙ ПОЖИЛОГО ВОЗРАСТА
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“Major personality traits that are associated with SWB are extraversion and neuroticism (Costa and McCrae, 1980; Diener et al., 1992), optimism (Scheier and Carver, 1993), and self-esteem (Campbell, 1981; Diener and Diener, 1995).”
BackgroundInfluence of extraversion and neuroticism on subjective well-being: Happy and unhappy people.
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The independence of positive and negative affect.
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Self-citationAssessing Subjective Well-Being: Progress and Opportunities
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Self-citationFood reward: brain substrates of wanting and liking
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Self-citationCross-Cultural Correlates of Life Satisfaction and Self-Esteem
Diener, E., & Diener, M. (1995) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.68.4.653 · Cited by 1,722
Self-citationLottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?
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Self-citationThe relationship between income and subjective well-being: Relative or absolute?
Diener, E., Sandvik, E., Seidlitz, L., & Diener, M. (1993) · Social Indicators Research · doi:10.1007/bf01079018 · Cited by 1,175
Self-citationWorld development report 1994 : infrastructure for development
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Resources, personal strivings, and subjective well-being: A nomothetic and idiographic approach.
Diener, E., & Fujita, F. (1995) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.68.5.926 · Cited by 835
Self-citationThe sense of well-being in America
Campbell, A. (1981) · Cited by 722
On the Power of Positive Thinking: The Benefits of Being Optimistic
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Events and subjective well-being: Only recent events matter.
Suh, E., Diener, E., & Fujita, F. (1996) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.70.5.1091 · Cited by 558
Self-citationHappiness in nations: Subjective appreciation of life in 56 nations 1946–1992.
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National differences in reported subjective well-being: Why do they occur?
Diener, E., Suh, E. M., Smith, H. L., & Shao, L. (1995) · Social Indicators Research · doi:10.1007/bf01078966 · Cited by 448
Self-citationDiener, E., Horwitz, J., & Emmons, R. A. (1985) · Social Indicators Research · doi:10.1007/bf00415126 · Cited by 338
Self-citationClassic and current social comparison research: Expanding the perspective.
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The wealth of nations revisited: Income and quality of life
Diener, E., & Diener, C. I. (1995) · Social Indicators Research · doi:10.1007/bf01078817 · Cited by 307
Self-citationA value based index for measuring national quality of life
Diener, E. (1995) · Social Indicators Research · doi:10.1007/bf01079721 · Cited by 295
Self-citationEvaluating one's life: A judgment model of subjective well-being.
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Physical attractiveness and subjective well-being.
Diener, E., Wolsic, B., & Fujita, F. (1995) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.69.1.120 · Cited by 257
Self-citationPhysician- and self-ratings of health, neuroticism and subjective well-being among men and women
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Self-citationExtraversion and subjective well-being in a U.S. national probability sample
Diener, E., Sandvik, E., Pavot, W., & Fujita, F. (1992) · Journal of Research in Personality · doi:10.1016/0092-6566(92)90039-7 · Cited by 227
Self-citationResponse artifacts in the measurement of subjective well-being
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Self-citationNotes on the psychology of utility
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Diener, E., Suh, E. M., Lucas, R. E., & Smith, H. L. (1999) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.125.2.276 · Cited by 12,910
Self-citationWell-being : the foundations of hedonic psychology
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Self-citationSocioemotional selectivity theory and the regulation of emotion in the second half of life
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“Moreover, national and international studies of well-being and life satisfaction found that older people were at least as satisfied with life as younger people (Diener & Lucas, 1999; Diener & Suh, 1997 ).”
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Dodge, R., Daly, A., Huyton, J., & Sanders, L. (2012) · International Journal of Wellbeing · doi:10.5502/ijw.v2i3.4 · Cited by 2,166
“More recent research has placed different emphases on what wellbeing is: ability to fulfil goals (Foresight Mental Capital and Wellbeing Project, 2008); happiness (Pollard & Lee, 2003) and life satisfaction (Diener & Suh, 1997; Seligman, 2002a).”
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“Diener and Suh (1997) suggested three bases for what is positive or what is valuable.”
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- Diener, E., & Suh, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Venue
- Social Indicators Research
- Published
- 1997-01
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 189-216
- ISSN
- 0303-8300 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-0921
- OpenAlex
- W2153621036
- Semantic Scholar
- c068312ebaa8742299008d37f57cdce5f960a26a
- Cited by
- 2,092
- References
- 50
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- FWCI
- 45.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Social Indicators Research (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Quality of Life Measurement
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Keywords
- quality of life, well-being measurement, subjective well-being, social indicators, economic indicators, crime, normative ideals, good life, policy evaluation
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