Effects of narratives accompanying memory recollection due to food related odor on subjective well-being

International migration desires related to subjective well-being

Previous research on the determinants of international migration has largely focused on objective factors, such as income. We instead use subjective well-being (SWB) to explain international migration desires, an expressed willingness to migrate. We find that individuals with higher SWB have lower international migration desires. At the individual level, the SWB-migration relationship appears t...

[Effects of over-adaptation on subjective well-being in adolescence].

The Over-Adaptation Tendency Scale is designed to assess internal (self-inhibitive personality traits) and external (other-directed behavioral adaptation strategies) characteristics of over adaptation. The relationships among over-adaptation, subjective well-being, and family relationships were investigated using this scale. The scale was administered to undergraduate and graduate students (N =...

Children's narratives and well-being

Children’s Subjective Well-being; Review on Definitions and Measures

Expended Abstract Introduction: Over the past decades there has been an increasing trend in research towards the children’s subjective well-being (SWB) as an important health and social policy issue. There are many scales for measuring SWB to the extent that selecting an appropriate scale among the available measures could still be regarded as a challenge. Given that measuring subjective well-...

Executive well-being: updating of positive stimuli in working memory is associated with subjective well-being.

A growing literature shows that the ability to control affective information in working memory (WM) plays an important role in emotional functioning. Whereas most studies have focused on executive processes relating to emotion dysregulation and mood disorders, few, if any, have looked at such processes in association with happiness. In this study, we examined whether the ability to update posit...