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Happiness Social Psy
Social Psych essay exam questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is subjective well being? | a term used in the paper to describe the subjective nature of happiness. It refers to how people appraise their lives |
| What are the inter connected yet separable components of subjective well being. | life satisfaction, satisfaction with important life domains (marriage or work) positive affect (prevalence of positive emotions and moods. |
| How is subjective well being assessed | through self report measures |
| What is one the self report tests SWLS | a self report measure called the Satisfaction With Life Scale |
| What is subjective well being? | a term used in the paper to describe the subjective nature of happiness. It refers to how people appraise their lives |
| What are the inter connected yet separable components of subjective well being. | life satisfaction, satisfaction with important life domains (marriage or work) positive affect (prevalence of positive emotions and moods. |
| How is subjective well being assessed | through self report measures |
| What is PANAS | PANAS is a measure of self report called Positive and Negative affect schedule. |
| What is the self report measure called SHS | SHS is a self report measure called Subjective Happiness Scale |
| What is Seligmans Happiness Formula | Seligmans Happiness Formula says that a persons enduring level of happiness is the sum of 1) One's set range for happiness 2.)life circumstances 3.)factors under your own voluntary control |
| What are the set point theories? | This research says that genetically determined set points account for about 50% of variation in happiness, 10% accounts for life circumstances and 40% is from the intentional activities that we do! |
| According to the set point theories, how much impact does a major life event effect a persons happiness? | According to the set point theories major life events like the death of a spouse or birth of a child only have a temporary effect on their happiness level and then it returns to the default value determined by genetic traits. |
| What is the Hedonic Treadmill theory? | The hedonic treadmill theory suggests that our emotional systems adjust to just about anything that happens in our life whether its positive or negative. It says that its like your nose adjusting to smells. |
| What role do genetics play in a persons happiness? | This research suggests that genetics are about 50% responsible for how happy a person is and whether they are prone to happiness or unhappiness throughout their lifetime. |
| What personality types are consistently strongly related to happiness? | When comparing personality types they say that extroversion and neuroticism are consistently and strongly related to happiness. Extroversion predicts positive effect and Neuroticism predicts negative effect. |
| How does Extroversion as a personality type affect happiness? | Extroverts are more responsive to positive mood inductions and therefore are more positive and experience more frequent positive objective events. |
| How does neuroticism as a personality type affect happiness? | People with neurotic personality types are more responsive to negative mood inductions and experience more frequent negative objective events. |
| Why do these authors theorize that extroverted people are happier. | This theory suggests that extroverted people have a larger group of friends and a broader base for social support so they have someone to turn to when they are down. |
| What are some personality traits that influence happiness? | Dispositional optimism, trust, agreeableness, desire for control and hardiness are all personality traits that influence happiness |
| How is self esteem related to happiness? | Self esteem is closely related to happiness with this study showing moderate to high correlations with happiness. |
| What are the six core virtues of happiness? | 1)Wisdom 2)Courage 3)Humanity 4)Justice 5)Temperance 6)Transendence |
| How does age affect happiness? | This research showed that age didn't make much difference but they said that life satisfaction increased from age 40-65 but then declined particularly with impending death. |
| What role does gender play in happiness? | Women experience both negative and positive emotions more frequently than men but they also represent both the extremely happy and extremely unhappy members of society. |
| What role does wealth play in peoples happiness? | You see the significant correlations between wealth and happiness between the middle class and the poor. The rich didn't turn out to be much happier than the middle class. Showing that money has a positive yet diminishing effect on happiness. |
| Are people that place a lot of importance on money and possessions happier? | This study shows that people who place a lot of importance on money and possessions are less satisfied, tend to be less happy and experience more negative affect. |
| Do money and education have an impact on happiness? | This study says that in general people that have more money and education are happier |
| Does religion have any impact on happiness? | Religion has a small positive affect on happiness. They believe that the beneficial effects stem from the sense of meaning and purpose that religious beliefs provide and also from the social support networks that religion provides. |
| How does poverty effect happiness throughout the world? | Some of the unhappiest nations are the poorest. |
| How does health effect happiness? | Strangely enough the associations between objective health and happiness are weak and the associations between subjective health and happiness are consistently strong. (Subjective health is reported by the individual) |
| Does marriage have any impact on happiness? | Married people are happier than unmarried people but children have little impact. |
| Do children increase the happiness of parents? | The firstborn significantly increase the happiness of the parents but additional children reduce the happiness of the mothers and have no impact on the fathers. |
| Do goals and a sense of meaning effect happiness? | People who have goals that they believe are important tend to be more energetic and experience more positive affect because they believe that life is meaningful |
| How does leisure effect happiness? | People that work fewer hours are generally more happy and people that listen to music, exercise and read tend to be happier. |
| Does happiness effect a persons cognitive abilities, intellectual abilities, etc...? | Positive emotions build a persons intellectual, psychological and physical resources over time but negative emotions force a person to focus on the immediate threat or problem. |
| What is the "How steep is this hill" study? | The how steep is this hill study showed that people that were put in a bad mood thought the hill was much steeper than when they were in a happier mood. People are expected to perform better when they are in good moods |
| How does happiness effect performance? | Happier, more positive people outperform their counterparts and also persist longer at tasks that require perseverance. |
| Does volunteering effect happiness? | Volunteering increases happiness and happier people are more likely to be volunteers. |
| What did the nun study say about the happier nuns? | The nun study showed that the nuns that had used more positive words and used more positive language lived longer and were still happy 60 years later. |
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