1. A hybrid model of well-being:
Living, and thinking about it
Life satisfaction as an aspect of well-being
¾
Most of what we know about well-being based on reports of satisfaction with life
“Considering everything, how satisfied are you with your life these days?”
¾
The starting point of our work: doubts about the implied definition of well-being
Two selves
¾
The experiencing self
¾
The remembering-evaluating self
¾
We should not take their agreement for granted
¾
The duration of pleasure and pain
should count in assessing experiences but duration is often ignored in retrospective evaluations
A hybrid model of subjective well-being
EXPERIENCED HAPPINESS
REPORTED LIFE SATISFACTION
WELL-BEING
Neither of the aspects of well-being is expendable
They must be measured separately r ~ .40
A focus on time
¾
Our definition of Experienced Happiness:
Duration-weighting of good and bad experiences ¾
Interest in time-use: what do people do with their time?
¾
Time-use is perhaps easier to control than other determinants of well-being
¾
The separate measurement of experienced happiness and life satisfaction
raises new questions may help resolve some ambiguities
The emblematic result of WB research
From Clark, Diener and McCulloch, 2001, based on 14 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study N ~26,000
Competing interpretations
Experienced happiness
adapts less than life satisfaction
Experienced happiness adapts
more than life satisfaction
Interpretations of country differences
2. The Day-Reconstruction Method DRM
The origin and goal standard of the DRM: Experience sampling
How do you feel right now?
Please rate each feeling on the scale given. A rating of 0 means that you are not experiencing that feeling at all. A rating of 6 means that this
feeling is a very important part of the experience.
Not at all Very Much
Happy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Kategori