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The Psychology of Quality of Life

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Before we focus on the psychology of specific life domains (e.g., work well-being, leisure well-being, and family well-being), the reader can benefit from understanding the psychological dynamics related to domain satisfaction in general. Thus, the goal of this chapter is to sensitize the reader to the many theoretical concepts involving domain satisfaction. Doing so should help the reader grasp a better appreciation of the discussion in the context of specific life domains.

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Notes

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    Tversky and Griffin (1991) have used the concept of “endowment effect” to refer to the positive affect resulting from a social judgment influence subjective well-being—a concept comparable to spillover.

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    A large-scale annual survey of incoming college freshman has been conducted by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at the UCLA Higher Education Institute and the American Council of Education (Pryor et al., 2009). The survey covers 20 life goals that respondents are asked to rate their importance on a scale: “essential,” “very important,” “somewhat important,” and “not important.” Example of these life goals include “raising a family,” “being very well-off financially,” “helping others who are in need,” “adopting green practices to protect the environment,” and “developing a meaningful philosophy of life.” “Being very well-off financially” ranked highest as a life goal with 77% of the freshman indicating that it is either “essential” or “very important” in 2010 compared to 60% indicating the same in 1975. In other words, the importance of material (economic or financial) well-being seems to be rising significantly in the United States. In contrast, the perceived importance of the life goal of “developing a meaningful philosophy of life” (spiritual well-being) took a nose dive from 82% in 1975 to 51% in 2010.

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