Positivity and the Construction of Life Satisfaction Judgments: Global Happiness Is Not the Sum of Its Parts

• Main Authors: DIENER, Ed, SCOLLON, Christie N., OISHI, Shigehiro, Dzokoto, Vivian, SUH, Mark Eunkook
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2000
• Subjects: life satisfaction; positivity; happiness; subjective well-being; culture; positive affect; norms; Multicultural Psychology; Psychology; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/930; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1929/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The present study investigated how reports of satisfaction with specific versus global domains can be used to assess a disposition towards positivity in subjective well-being reports. College students from 41 societies (N = 7167) completed measures of life satisfaction and ratings of global and spec...