Recent studies indicate that divorce sometimes is positive for subjective well-being but we lack knowledge about the circumstances under which this is the case. Further we lack knowledge about the possible different associations between divorce and life satisfaction (LS) vs. positive affect (PA)....

Giving too much emphasis to extrinsic values and too little emphasis to intrinsic values is known to depress well-being. But is simply working in an extrinsic job also risky even if that job delivers the money?...

Basal cardiovascular activity may be modulated by positive affect activation levels....

This study examined sources and motives for personal meaning in adulthood using a mixed methods approach. Participants (N = 666) from seven Western countries reported sources of life meaning and why they were meaningful. They rated their perceived meaningfulness of 10 life domains and completed the Satisfaction with Life Scale....

Hedonia and eudaimonia have both been proposed as pathways to well-being. Past research in this area has predominantly focused on global cognitive evaluations of how one typically lives....

The idea that eudaimonic well-being (EWB) should be distinguished from the more widespread notion of hedonic well-being (HWB) has stirred up disagreement among happiness researchers. Siding with EWB researchers this study provides theoretical and empirical arguments supporting the distinctiveness and usefulness of a EWB dimension....

The roles of positive and negative affect in well-being were studied in two different societies namely the Iranian and the Swedish. A total of 606 university students (296 Iranian and 310 Swedish) participated in the study....

This study examines affect regulation and adaptive goals with regard to negative and positive emotional episodes. A sample of 355 undergraduate students were asked to recall an important past-year interpersonal episode of joy anger and sadness....

Character strengths were tested in relation to subjective (life satisfaction) and physical (self-evaluated health and physical fitness) well-being (440 adults). Health-behaviors and the mediating role of health-behaviors in explaining the relationship between character and well-being were also considered....

Theorists have suggested that faith in God can play an important role in the relief of anxiety associated with uncertainty. Yet little is known about the impact of national differences in uncertainty avoidance – the degree to which uncertainty is threatening to members of a culture – on the relationship between faith and subjective well-being....