What are people saying when they report they are happy or life satisfied

  1. Americo Baptista 1
  2. Cristina Camilo 1
  3. Marta Becall 1
  4. Isabel Santos 1
  5. Jose de Almeida Brites 1
  6. Joana Brites Rosa 1
  7. Enrique G. Fernández-Abascal 2
  1. 1 University Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (Lisbon, Portugal)
  2. 2 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
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    Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

    Madrid, España

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Revista:
Anales de psicología

ISSN: 0212-9728,  1695-2294

Año de publicación: 2016

Volumen: 32

Número: 3

Páginas: 803-809

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.6018/ANALESPS.32.3.229121 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Anales de psicología

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Resumen

The study of happiness was dominated with the model of subjective well-being. With the advent of positive psychology the eudaimonic and hedonic models entered the field, but major surveys continue to use single-item measures of life satisfaction or happiness. We study the associations between life satisfaction and happiness, measured single-items with a graphic representation of a ladder and a thermometer, and three models of happiness: the subjective well-being, the eudaimonic and hedonic. The results showed that subjective well-being was the main predictor of life satisfaction and hedonic model also predicted a small amount of this variable. For happiness the predictors were the same but in reversed order, the main predictor was the hedonic model and a small variance was explained by subjective well-being. Contrary to our hypothesis the eudaimonic perspective of happiness was not a predictor in none of the models. These results underline the importance of the interaction between a cognitive or appraisal perspective and the hedonic perspectives for the study of happiness.

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