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Unemployment Alters the Set Point for Life Satisfaction
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According to set-point theories of subjective well-being, people react to events but then return to baseline levels of happiness and satisfaction over time. We tested this idea by examining reaction and adaptation to unemployment in a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 24,000 individuals living in Germany. In accordance with set-point theories, individuals reacted strongly to unemployment and then shifted back toward their baseline levels of life satisfaction. However, on average, individuals did not completely return to their former levels of satisfaction, even after they became reemployed. Furthermore, contrary to expectations from adaptation theories, people who had experienced unemployment in the past did not react any less negatively to a new bout of unemployment than did people who had not been previously unemployed. These results suggest that although life satisfaction is moderately stable over time, life events can have a strong influence on long-term levels of subjective well-being.
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“the reaction phase added significantly to the prediction ( = .69,S.E.= .08,t = 9.09, p < .001)when both average baseline satisfaction and average reaction phase satisfaction were entered into the equation.”
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“Table 1 shows that, on average, people do not return to baseline levels long after the period of unemployment has ended”
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“the reaction parameter correlated .67 with the adaptation parameter”
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“within-person changes in income had a significant and substantial positive effect on people's life satisfaction over the course of the study (a coefficient of .40)”
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“even after controlling for this effect, people become over one-half of a point less satisfied during the reaction phase of unemployment.”
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“The moderator analyses show that none of the person-level characteristics influenced this within-person adaptation parameter.”
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“people's average income moderates the effect of within-person changes in income -the higher a respondent's average income, the less changes in income influence life satisfaction.”
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“However, on average, individuals did not completely return to their former levels of life satisfaction, even after they became re-employed.”
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“People with higher incomes began the study with higher levels of life satisfaction”
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“Furthermore, even individuals who dropped dramatically after unemployment showed some rebound toward baseline, not the pattern we would expect from a downward spiral due to internal causes.”
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“Thus, reactions to unemployment were similar regardless of sex, age, income, or length of time one remained unemployed.”
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“At the individual level, people's set-point changed in that some individuals' life satisfaction increased slightly after adaptation to the unemployment experience, whereas other people's life satisfaction stayed substantially lower even after many years.”
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“Initial baseline levels of satisfaction correlated -.11 with the reactivity parameter and -.30 with the adaptation parameter.”
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“Within-person analyses showed, however, that there are considerable individual differences in reaction and adaptation to unemployment.”
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“although the adaptation parameter is significantly smaller than the reaction parameter ( 2 = 6.57, df = 1, p < .05),which shows that people do start shifting back towards baseline during the adaptation phase”
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“Table 1 shows that the respondents who met our selection criteria were approximately onequarter of a point higher than average on life satisfaction before they became unemployed.”
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“It is important to note, however, that an event such as unemployment does not have the same meaning or influence on everyone -there are clear individual differences in reactions to these events”
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“Satisfaction in the baseline period correlated .73 and .62 with satisfaction in the reactivity and adaptation periods, respectively.Satisfaction in the reactivity period correlated .80 with satisfaction in the adaptation phase.”
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“Although there was substantial stability in life satisfaction over the years, unemployment did influence long-term levels, thus suggesting that in addition to personality, long-term subjective well-being can also be influenced by life circumstances.”
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“In accordance with set-point theory, individuals first reacted strongly to unemployment and then shifted back toward their former (or”
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“First, prior to unemployment, the individuals who would eventually become unemployed reported a high level of life satisfaction, and did not show evidence of lower levels that would likely result from initial problems with alcohol, dysphoria, and so forth.”
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“Second, it should also be noted that Lucas, Clark, Georgellis, and Diener (2001) found that widows show a sharp decline in life satisfaction and do not on average return to their former levels even after five years”
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- Not matchedcites Lucas, Clark, Georgellis, and Diener (2001)
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“Our data show strong temporal stability in life satisfaction, which is compatible with the idea of a strong temperament influence (Tellegen et al., 1988).”
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“Research shows that these variables are moderately to strongly stable over time and often change only slightly following major life events.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999 source
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“This indicates that although the baseline phase captures a substantial amount of variance in the adaptation level, satisfaction during the reaction phase adds variance to the prediction of one's eventual adaptation level.”
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“At the aggregate level, people were less satisfied long after unemployment, suggesting that the event lowered the average set-point of these respondents.”
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“Because of certain trends in the data, we centered life satisfaction scores within each year of the survey and within four sub-samples of the larger population (West Germans, East Germans, immigrants to Germany, and foreigners living in Germany; see Lucas et al., for details).”
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“For example, longitudinal studies have shown that happiness prospectively predicts higher income levels (e.g., Diener, Nickerson, Lucas, & Sandvik, 2001;Marks & Fleming, 1999), better health (Danner & Snowdon, 2001), and the experience of various positive life events (Magnus, Diener, & Fujita, 1996).”
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“They found that people often showed incomplete adaptation to marital transitions.Furthermore, Lucas et al. demonstrated that there were considerable individual differences in these reactions, and that the strength with which one reacted to an event was strong predictor of whether or not he or she would ever completely adapt.”
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- Not matchedcites Lucas, Clark, Georgellis, and Diener (2001)
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“In a later study, Lykken and Tellegen (1996) concluded that about 80 percent of the variance in long-term levels of SWB could be attributed to inborn temperament.”
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“participants were asked how satisfied they were with their lives at the time of the survey, using a scale that ranged from 0 to 10.”
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“Households were selected using multi-stage random sampling, and all members of each selected household were asked to participate.”
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- Not matchedcites Haisken-De New & Frick, 1998
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“Previous cross-sectional studies of unemployment have shown that unemployed individuals tend to be substantially less happy than employed individuals (Argyle, 2001;Clark and Oswald, 1994).”
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- Not matchedcites Argyle, 2001
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“According to this theory, people initially react to events, but then return to baseline levels of well-being that are determined by personality factors.”
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- Not matchedcites Headey & Wearing, 1992
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“Unfortunately, neither of these designs is ideal because pre-event levels of SWB are not known. Thus, these designs cannot determine whether people return to pre-event levels of SWB.”
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“Researchers have therefore claimed that people have inborn SWB”
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“However, the multi-level modeling analytic technique allows participants to contribute to the estimate of parameters, even if they do not have complete data.Therefore, the 1,119 participants contribute to the fixed part of the model, but only the 669 participants with complete data contribute to the estimate of correlations among parameters.”
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“Furthermore, personality and temperament variables seem to play a strong role in determining individuals' levels of SWB (Diener & Lucas, 1999).”
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“We should note that this model requires that all participants contribute data for at least two years before and after their period of unemployment, a criterion that is more restrictive than our initial selection criterion.Six hundred sixty-nine respondents met this more restrictive selection criterion.”
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“Tellegen et al. (1988), for example, used a twin study design to show that genes account for about half of the variance in positive and negative affect.”
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“Costa, McCrae, and Zonderman (1987) showed that the stability of SWB does not seem to be affected by the events that happen to people-individuals who experienced major life events exhibited similar long-term test-retest reliability on SWB measures as did those who experienced no such major life events.”
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“Surveys were conducted yearly using face-to-face interviews.”
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“Suh, Diener, and Fujita (1996) estimated that most life events affect SWB for less than two months”
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“Participants were selected from the larger sample if they began the study employed, experienced one period of unemployment during the study, regained employment, and then stayed employed for the remainder of the study.”
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“More specifically, SWB could be used to make a strong case for unemployment programmes given the significant reduction in SWB associated with any periods of unemployment (Clark et al., 2004;Clark, 2010).”
From Measuring Subjective Wellbeing: Recommendations on Measures for use by National Governments (2012) · cites this paper as Clark et al., 2004
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“Employment may be associated with positive outcomes such as increased physical and mental health [11–13].”
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“In other words, it is a general cognitive evaluation that involves the individual’s contentment with relationships such as family, friendship (Suldo and Huebner 2006), unemployment ( Lucas et al. 2004 ) and income, housing (Oishi et al. 1999).”
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The development of subjective well-being
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“Thus, although well‐being may be somewhat stable over time (Hudson, et al., 2019; Renaud, et al., 2019), it can change over the life course and in response to impactful life events such as unemployment or widowhood (Lucas et al., 2003, 2004).”
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“When changes do occur, they are, in the case of self-rated health, as a result of health-related behaviors (Bailis et al., 2003), and changes in life satisfaction are as a result of severe events (e.g., widowhood, Lucas et al., 2004).”
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“…to most environmental stimuli, SWB tends to change in response to formative events such as marriage and child birth (Dyrdal et al. 2011; Dyrdal and Lucas 2013; Luhmann et al. 2012), unemployment (Lucas et al. 2004), becoming disabled (Lucas 2007), or having a disabled child (Nes et al. 2014).”
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“Some data suggest that unemployment has a significant effect on well-being (Lucas et al. 2004).”
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“Well-being research shows that unemployment initially has a negative effect on subjective well-being, but that it recovers over time (Diener & Ryan, 2009), although on average individuals generally do not regain their previous baseline levels of satisfaction (Lucas et al., 2004).”
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“For instance, unemployment can change the individual set-point for satisfaction with life (Lucas et al. 2004).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lucas, R. E., Clark, A. E., Georgellis, Y., & Diener, E.
- Affiliations
- Michigan State University (US)
- Département et Laboratoire d'Economie, Théorique et Appliquée, Paris, France
- Brunel University of London (GB)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lucas, Richard E.
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2004-01
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 8-13
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W2022668144
- Semantic Scholar
- 4d01dc1a9709f1b491ea2c3ceeafdcdf3875cef3
- Cited by
- 1,327
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 30 · 2025: 50 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 106 · 2022: 68 · 2021: 72 · 2020: 63 · 2019: 52 · 2018: 65 · 2017: 56 · 2016: 65 · 2015: 57 · 2014: 77 · 2013: 82 · 2012: 75
- FWCI
- 40.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- bura.brunel.ac.uk
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London) (submittedVersion)
- Research Repository (Kingston University London) (submittedVersion)
- Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Employment and Welfare Studies
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Keywords
- unemployment, life satisfaction, subjective well-being, set-point theory, adaptation, reemployment, life events, happiness, longitudinal study
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Life Change Events, Personal Satisfaction, Quality of Life, Unemployment
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