The Myers & Diener Study - Describe Flashcards

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Identify a way of assessing happiness.

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  • Consider a person’s sense of their own happiness.
  • Consider a person’s well-being, subjective well-being (SWB).
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How is subjective well-being assessed?

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Done by interviewing people using a closed question:
- ‘How satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?’
- Are you very satisfied? Not very satisfied? Not at all satisfied?

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What else can be used to produce quantitative data to represent happiness?

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A multi-item scale = includes a number of questions related to happiness.

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What is one way to discover what people are doing?

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  • Asking them to report what they are doing at a selected time.
  • Researchers use beeps to remind a participant to send a message saying what they’re doing and thinking at a particular moment.
  • This is a way to sample peoples behaviour.
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What is this study described as?

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A review of other research
- Some of the research referred to is based on multiple studies.
- Some of which are reviews, some are meta-analysis.

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What were the findings when looking into age and happiness?

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  • A surgery of almost 170,000 people of all ages in 16 different countries found no differences.
  • People of all ages were equally happy.
  • The mean score was 80% satisfaction with life.
  • Although, at different ages, different factors contribute to happiness.
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What were the findings when looking into gender and happiness?

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  • The survey found that 80% of men and women said they were ‘fairly satisfied’ with life.
  • In another study, it was calculated that a person’s gender accounted for 1% of global well-being.
  • Although, research has found that women are twice as vulnerable as men to depression.
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What were the findings when looking into money and happiness?

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  • A survey found that 75% of American college students selected ‘being well off financially’ as an essential life goal, compared to 39% in an earlier study.
  • Diener found a correlation of +0.12 between income and happiness.
  • People who are rich don’t report greater happiness.
  • 37% of people on the Forbes rich list were less happy than the American average.
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What three elements are a part of a theory of happiness?

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  • The importance of adaptation.
  • Cultural worldview.
  • Values and goals.
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What is the conclusion of the importance of adaptation?

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  • The effects of positive and negative events fade overtime.
  • Someone who wins the lottery only experiences short-term increases in happiness.
  • A longitudinal study found that it is only events in the last 3 months that influence SWB.
  • This is due to the human capacity to adapt to life’s circumstances.
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What is the conclusion of cultural worldview?

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  • Cultural attitudes predispose people to interpret life events differently.
  • Some attitudes interpret the world as a benevolent place, other cultures interpret it negatively.
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What is the conclusion of values and goals?

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  • People with a higher sense of SWB ave goals which they are striving to achieve.
  • Factors like money, only matter if they are relevant to your goals.
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