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Bostic, Terence J.; Ptacek, J. T.

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“…People who reported internal locus of control also reported higher levels of positive affect in their life. Zika and Chamberlin (1987), Bostic and Ptacek (2001) have also reported similar results.…”

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An Investigation on the Mediating Role of Coping Strategies on Locus of Control - Wellbeing Relationship

Arunachalam

Supriya

2012

Span. j. psychol.

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The relationship among coping strategies, locus of control, and workplace wellbeing is examined. The model hypothesizes that coping strategies mediate the relationship between locus of control and work place well being. To test the model, data was collected from 154 software professionals using separate tools to assess coping strategies, locus of control and work place wellbeing. Model fit for the collected data was examined using structural equation modeling technique with the help of AMOS. Results support the view that coping strategies mediate the relationship between locus of control and work place wellbeing. While the path between locus of control and wellbeing is significant, the path between coping distraction and wellbeing is not significant.

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An Investigation on the Mediating Role of Coping Strategies on Locus of Control - Wellbeing Relationship

Arunachalam

Supriya

2012

Span. j. psychol.

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“…Results from these studies were largely consistent with the present findings: short-term variability in life satisfaction was sizable but less than short-term variability in emotions. A handful of other studies have examined short-term variability in subjective wellbeing (a composite of life satisfaction and positive and negative emotions; e.g., Bostic & Ptacek, 2001; Gadermann & Zumbo, 2007). These studies also found considerable short-term variability in subjective wellbeing; however, it is difficult to draw conclusions specifically about life satisfaction from them.…”

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Understanding short-term variability in life satisfaction: The Individual Differences in Evaluating Life Satisfaction (IDELS) model.

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Biesanz³

et al. 2020

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Daily life is full of emotional ups and downs. In contrast, the objective conditions of our lives usually remain relatively stable from day to day. The degree to which emotional ups and downs influence life satisfactionwhich prima facie should be relatively stable-remains a puzzle. In the present article, we propose the Individual Differences in Evaluating Life Satisfaction (IDELS) model to address this puzzle. The IDELS model posits that people differ in the processes by which they evaluate their life satisfaction: Some people's life satisfaction is more strongly associated with their current emotions (i.e., "emotion globalizing") whereas other people maintain a filter between their life satisfaction and current emotions. These individual differences should have important implications for the degree of short-term variability in life satisfaction and, in turn, for psychological health. In 3 diverse samples of women (total N ϭ 536), we assessed life satisfaction and emotions daily or multiple times per day for 2 weeks. We tested 4 hypotheses derived from the IDELS model. First, participants differed substantially in the degree of short-term variability in life satisfaction, and these individual differences were moderately stable. Second, participants differed substantially in emotion globalizing, and these individual differences were moderately stable. Third, higher emotion globalizing predicted greater short-term variability in life satisfaction. Fourth, greater short-term variability in life satisfaction was associated with a maladaptive profile of greater neuroticism and worse psychological health. We discuss implications for life satisfaction theory and measurement.

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“…While a bottom-up process, in which participants consider the various domains in their lives and carefully assign scores and weights to each, might be ideal, in point of fact subjects may answer based on the first thought, positive or negative, that leaps to mind. Thus, the score may be influenced by trivial factors such as whether the subject has had a particularly good or bad time in the very recent past (Bostic and Ptacek, 2001;Gadermann and Zumbo, 2007;Schawarz and Strack, 1999;Suh et al, 1996). On the whole, however, life satisfaction has been shown to be reasonably temporally stable-retests a few weeks later show a correlation in the neighborhood of 0.7 with earlier tests-and thus to reflect more substantial life conditions (Kahneman and Krueger, 2006;Lepper, 1998;Lucas et al, 1996;Schimmack et al, 2002).…”

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Should we all just stay home? Travel, out-of-home activities, and life satisfaction

Morris

2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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Cited by 22 publications

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An Investigation on the Mediating Role of Coping Strategies on Locus of Control - Wellbeing Relationship

An Investigation on the Mediating Role of Coping Strategies on Locus of Control - Wellbeing Relationship

Understanding short-term variability in life satisfaction: The Individual Differences in Evaluating Life Satisfaction (IDELS) model.

Should we all just stay home? Travel, out-of-home activities, and life satisfaction

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