Pub Date : 2025-12-17DOI: 10.1007/s10902-025-00991-4
Tracy K. Wong, Kedi Zhao
The association between positive affect regulation and well-being has often been examined at the intrapersonal level, but positive affect regulation may also occur at the interpersonal level and be shaped by contextual factors. Thus, positive affect regulation strategies, including savoring and dampening, were examined in relation to well-being (i.e. positive affect and life satisfaction) at the intra- and inter-personal levels, while also considering the moderating effects of stressor intensity and perceived controllability. Participants included 281 emerging adults ( M age = 21.29; 71% female-identifying), who responded to a 14-day daily diary. Multilevel analyses indicated that individuals reported lower well-being on days when they engaged more in dampening, but greater well-being on days when they engaged more in emotion-focused and self-focused positive rumination. Co-savoring was also positively associated with well-being, but co-dampening was not. Perceived controllability, but not stressor intensity, moderated the associations of dampening, self-focused positive rumination, and co-savoring with life satisfaction. These findings suggest that regulating positive affect independently and with social others has implications for well-being, and that contextual factors also matter.
{"title":"Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Regulation of Positive Affect: The Moderating Effects of Stressor Intensity and Perceived Controllability","authors":"Tracy K. Wong, Kedi Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s10902-025-00991-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-025-00991-4","url":null,"abstract":"The association between positive affect regulation and well-being has often been examined at the intrapersonal level, but positive affect regulation may also occur at the interpersonal level and be shaped by contextual factors. Thus, positive affect regulation strategies, including savoring and dampening, were examined in relation to well-being (i.e. positive affect and life satisfaction) at the intra- and inter-personal levels, while also considering the moderating effects of stressor intensity and perceived controllability. Participants included 281 emerging adults ( <jats:italic>M</jats:italic> age = 21.29; 71% female-identifying), who responded to a 14-day daily diary. Multilevel analyses indicated that individuals reported lower well-being on days when they engaged more in dampening, but greater well-being on days when they engaged more in emotion-focused and self-focused positive rumination. Co-savoring was also positively associated with well-being, but co-dampening was not. Perceived controllability, but not stressor intensity, moderated the associations of dampening, self-focused positive rumination, and co-savoring with life satisfaction. These findings suggest that regulating positive affect independently and with social others has implications for well-being, and that contextual factors also matter.","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145770610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1007/s10902-025-00992-3
Benjamin D. Rasmussen, Ronald D. Rogge
{"title":"Optimizing the Measurement of Life Satisfaction Beyond the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) Via the Development and Validation of the Satisfaction and Quality of Life Scale (SQLS)","authors":"Benjamin D. Rasmussen, Ronald D. Rogge","doi":"10.1007/s10902-025-00992-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-025-00992-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145752965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-11DOI: 10.1007/s10902-025-00981-6
Victor Counted, Katelyn N. G. Long, Richard G. Cowden, Charlotte V. O. Witvliet, Cristina Gibson, Alicia Cortright, Emily Purcell, James Walsh, William Hathaway, Fernando Garzon, Byron R. Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele
{"title":"Where Hope Thrives: Demographic Variation in Hope across 22 Countries","authors":"Victor Counted, Katelyn N. G. Long, Richard G. Cowden, Charlotte V. O. Witvliet, Cristina Gibson, Alicia Cortright, Emily Purcell, James Walsh, William Hathaway, Fernando Garzon, Byron R. Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele","doi":"10.1007/s10902-025-00981-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-025-00981-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145717864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Happiness and life satisfaction: understanding the effects of questionorder on subjective wellbeing measures in India","authors":"Giulia Greco, Camilla Fabbri, Varun Dutt, Timothy Powell-Jackson","doi":"10.1007/s10902-025-00975-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-025-00975-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145703847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-08DOI: 10.1007/s10902-025-00990-5
Jeong Eun Cheon, Haeyoung Gideon Park, Misoh Lee, Young-Hoon Kim
{"title":"Me, You, or Us? Dyadic Associations between Marital and Life Satisfaction","authors":"Jeong Eun Cheon, Haeyoung Gideon Park, Misoh Lee, Young-Hoon Kim","doi":"10.1007/s10902-025-00990-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-025-00990-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145697117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1007/s10902-025-00985-2
Yuki Miyagawa
{"title":"How Self-Compassion Promotes Authentic Self-Expression: The Role of Self-Concept Clarity","authors":"Yuki Miyagawa","doi":"10.1007/s10902-025-00985-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-025-00985-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145680209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-03DOI: 10.1007/s10902-025-00969-2
Monica Răileanu Szeles
{"title":"Life Satisfaction and Migration Intentions in Urban Romania: The Local-Global Divide","authors":"Monica Răileanu Szeles","doi":"10.1007/s10902-025-00969-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-025-00969-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145657189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-25DOI: 10.1007/s10902-025-00972-7
Gian Vittorio Caprara, Giuseppe Corbelli, Mariagiovanna Caprara, Antonio Contreras, Marinella Paciello, Antonio Zuffianò
Positivity, defined as the tendency to view life and experiences with a positive outlook, has recently received a great deal of interest for its significance in understanding human strengths and well-being, yet the temporal interplay among its three facets (self-esteem, life satisfaction, optimism) in relation to the construct of positivity itself is still unclear. A three-wave study of 1,375 Spanish university students investigated this interplay before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown. A Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model separated trait-like from state-like variance in each facet and extracted latent shared components, to explore the extent to which positivity subsumes or coexists with these dimensions of human strengths and their relationships across time. The trait-like positivity factor loaded strongly on the between-person components of self-esteem, life satisfaction, and optimism, suggesting a pervasive influence on these facets at the between-person level. A state-like positivity factor accounted for their concurrent dynamic fluctuations, but did not fully account for the within-person variance of each facet, showing its distinctiveness from these constructs and the uniqueness of each. Moreover, both trait-like and state-like positivity and within-person residuals of self-esteem, life satisfaction, and optimism were significantly associated with subjective mental health perception. These findings contribute to the understanding of positivity as a construct encompassing a stable trait-like disposition and state-like specific components arising from self-esteem, life satisfaction and optimism without subsuming them, highlighting its role as an expression of the self-system with an important function in well-being and adaptive functioning.
{"title":"Phenomenology of Positivity: Understanding the Joint Dynamics of Self-esteem, Life Satisfaction, and Optimism","authors":"Gian Vittorio Caprara, Giuseppe Corbelli, Mariagiovanna Caprara, Antonio Contreras, Marinella Paciello, Antonio Zuffianò","doi":"10.1007/s10902-025-00972-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-025-00972-7","url":null,"abstract":"Positivity, defined as the tendency to view life and experiences with a positive outlook, has recently received a great deal of interest for its significance in understanding human strengths and well-being, yet the temporal interplay among its three facets (self-esteem, life satisfaction, optimism) in relation to the construct of positivity itself is still unclear. A three-wave study of 1,375 Spanish university students investigated this interplay before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown. A Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model separated trait-like from state-like variance in each facet and extracted latent shared components, to explore the extent to which positivity subsumes or coexists with these dimensions of human strengths and their relationships across time. The trait-like positivity factor loaded strongly on the between-person components of self-esteem, life satisfaction, and optimism, suggesting a pervasive influence on these facets at the between-person level. A state-like positivity factor accounted for their concurrent dynamic fluctuations, but did not fully account for the within-person variance of each facet, showing its distinctiveness from these constructs and the uniqueness of each. Moreover, both trait-like and state-like positivity and within-person residuals of self-esteem, life satisfaction, and optimism were significantly associated with subjective mental health perception. These findings contribute to the understanding of positivity as a construct encompassing a stable trait-like disposition and state-like specific components arising from self-esteem, life satisfaction and optimism without subsuming them, highlighting its role as an expression of the self-system with an important function in well-being and adaptive functioning.","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145593558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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