Introduction
For psychologists, the most intriguing aspect of well-being is how people subjectively experience quality of their own lives. People react and evaluate external conditions basing on their expectations, values, beliefs, and previous experiences, and thus the subjective element is essential for life’s quality. Subjective well-being (SWB) is a complex construct defined as “a person’s cognitive and affective evaluations of his or her life” (Diener et al. 2002, p. 63). Therefore, SWB (labeled also as happiness) is described as a combination of global judgment of life satisfaction and the relative frequency of experiencing positive versus negative affect (Diener et al. 1991). A happy person has a high level of satisfaction with life and experiences a greater positive affect and little negative affect.
Subjective Well-Being: Conceptualization and Measurement
SWB is usually assessed with self-report questionnaires. A number of tools have been developed to measure separable...
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Zajenkowski, M. (2018). Personality and Subjective Well-Being. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2116-1
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