Journal of Happiness Studies

2000 - 2025

Current editor(s): Antonella Delle Fave

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Volume 18, issue 6, 2017

Being Helped and Being Harmed: A Theoretical Study of Employee Self-Concept and Receipt of Help pp. 1573-1592

Shih Yung Chou and Tree Chang

Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania pp. 1593-1623

Milena Nikolova and Boris Nikolaev

Changes in Job Satisfaction Through Time in Two Major New England Fishing Ports pp. 1625-1640

Tarsila Seara, Richard B. Pollnac and John J. Poggie

The Mediating Roles of Work–Family Conflict and Facilitation in the Relations Between Leisure Experience and Job/Life Satisfaction Among Employees in Shanghai Banking Industry pp. 1641-1657

Shichang Deng and Jun Gao

Personality, Positivity and Happiness: A Mediation Analysis Using a Bifactor Model pp. 1659-1682

Marco Lauriola and Luca Iani

Meaning in Life Promotes Proactive Coping via Positive Affect: A Daily Diary Study pp. 1683-1696

Miao Miao, Lei Zheng and Yiqun Gan

Measurement Invariance of Personal Well-Being Index (PWI-8) Across 26 Countries pp. 1697-1711

Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Jarosław P. Piotrowski, Jan Cieciuch, Byron G. Adams, Evgeny N. Osin, Rahkman Ardi, Sergiu Bălţătescu, Arbinda Lal Bhomi, Amanda Clinton, Gisela T. Clunie, Carla Esteves, Valdiney Gouveia, Ashraf Hosseini, Hooria Seyedhosseini Ghaheh, Narine Khachatryan, Shanmukh Vasant Kamble, Anna Kawula, Kadi Liik, Eva Letovancova, Sara Malo Cerrato, Carles Alsinet Mora, Sofya Nartova-Bochaver, Marija Nikolic, Joonha Park, Elena Paspalanova, Győző Pék, Joanna Różycka-Tran, Ha Truong Thi Khanh, Takashi Tsubakita, Christin-Melanie Vauclair, Anna Włodarczyk and John Maltby

Is There a Stronger Association Between Children and Happiness Among the Religious? Religion as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Happiness and Child Number pp. 1713-1727

Stephen Cranney

The Psychosocial Construction of Parenting: An Examination of Parenting Goals and Narratives in Relation to Well-Being pp. 1729-1745

William L. Dunlop, Lawrence J. Walker, Grace E. Hanley and Nicole Harake

Orientations to Happiness and Subjective Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents: The Roles of Prosocial Behavior and Internet Addictive Behavior pp. 1747-1762

Ying Yang, Peipei Li, Xinyuan Fu and Yu Kou

Subjective Well-Being During the 2008 Economic Crisis: Identification of Mediating and Moderating Factors pp. 1763-1797

Gregor Gonza and Anže Burger

Alexithymia, Defenses, and Ego Strength: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Relationships with Psychological Well-Being and Depression pp. 1799-1813

Maisa S. Ziadni, Matthew J. Jasinski, Gisela Labouvie-Vief and Mark A. Lumley

Religiosity and Life Satisfaction: A Multi-dimensional Approach pp. 1815-1840

Volkan Yeniaras and Tugra Nazli Akarsu

Happiness and Globalization: A Spatial Econometric Approach pp. 1841-1857

Chun-Hung A. Lin, Suchandra Lahiri and Ching-Po Hsu

The Validity of Subjective Wellbeing Measurement for Children: Evidence Using the Personal Wellbeing Index—School Children pp. 1859-1875

Adrian J. Tomyn, Matthew D. Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Robert A. Cummins and Jacolyn M. Norrish

Inclusive Leadership and Employee Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Person-Job Fit pp. 1877-1901

Suk Bong Choi, Thi Bich Hanh Tran and Seung-Wan Kang

Volume 18, issue 5, 2017

Unique Contributions of Positive Schemas for Understanding Child and Adolescent Life Satisfaction and Happiness pp. 1255-1274

R. M. Tomlinson, L. Keyfitz, J. S. Rawana and M. N. Lumley

Monetary Valuations of Life Conditions in a Consistent Framework: The Life Satisfaction Approach pp. 1275-1303

Tetsuya Tsurumi and Shunsuke Managi

Eudaimonic Well-Being in Transsexual People, Before and After Gender Confirming Surgery pp. 1305-1317

Antonio Prunas, Alessandra D. Fisher, Elisa Bandini, Mario Maggi, Valeria Pace, Orlando Todarello, Chiara De Bella and Maurizio Bini

Comparing the Effects of Three Online Cognitive Reappraisal Trainings on Well-Being pp. 1319-1338

Rachel M. Ranney, Emma Bruehlman-Senecal and Ozlem Ayduk

Association of Positivity with Health Problems in Old Age: Preliminary Findings from Spanish Middle Class Seniors pp. 1339-1358

Mariagiovanna Caprara, Laura Giunta and Gian Vittorio Caprara

Home Sweet Home! Does Moving Have (Lasting) Effects on Housing Satisfaction? pp. 1359-1375

Tobias Wolbring

Job Satisfaction and Innovative Performance in Young Spanish Employees: Testing New Patterns in the Happy-Productive Worker Thesis—A Discriminant Study pp. 1377-1401

Yarid Ayala, José Ma. Peiró Silla, Núria Tordera, Laura Lorente and Jesús Yeves

Happy Temperament? Four Types of Stimulation Control Linked to Four Types of Subjective Well-Being pp. 1403-1423

Agnieszka Bojanowska and Anna M. Zalewska

The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire: Transformation from an Ordinal to an Interval Measure Using Rasch Analysis pp. 1425-1443

Oleg N. Medvedev, Richard J. Siegert, Ahmed D. Mohamed, Daniel Shepherd, Erik Landhuis and Christian U. Krägeloh

Are the Effects of Height on Well-Being a Tall Tale? pp. 1445-1458

Kevin Denny

Brilliant: But What For? Meaning and Subjective Well-Being in the Lives of Intellectually Gifted and Academically High-Achieving Adults pp. 1459-1484

Edith Pollet and Tatjana Schnell

Hope for the Future and Avoidance of the Present: Associations with Well-being in Older Adults pp. 1485-1506

Susan J. Ferguson, Alan J. Taylor and Catherine McMahon

Peer violence in the School Environment and Its Relationship with Subjective Well-Being and Perceived Social Support Among Children and Adolescents in Northeastern Brazil pp. 1507-1532

Stefania C. Alcantara, Mònica González-Carrasco, Carme Montserrat, Ferran Viñas, Ferran Casas and Desirée P. Abreu

Happiness in Behaviour Genetics: An Update on Heritability and Changeability pp. 1533-1552

Ragnhild Bang Nes and Espen Røysamb

Extending Traditional Psychological Disciplines to Positive Psychology: A View from Subjective Well-being pp. 1553-1571

Weiting Ng

Volume 18, issue 4, 2017

An Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Absolute and Relative Inequalities on Individual Satisfaction pp. 939-958

Jérémy Celse

The Benefits of Transcending Self-Interest: Examining the Role of Self-Transcendence on Expressive Suppression and Well-Being pp. 959-975

Chien-Han Kao, Jenny C. Su, Jennifer Crocker and Jen-Ho Chang

The Future Work Self and Calling: The Mediational Role of Life Meaning pp. 977-991

Chunyu Zhang, Andreas Hirschi, Anne Herrmann, Jia Wei and Jinfu Zhang

Income and Wellbeing in a Society on the Verge to Market Integration: The Case of the Tsimane’ in the Bolivian Amazon pp. 993-1011

Dmitrij Minkin and Victoria Reyes-García

Parenting Style and Children’s Life Satisfaction and Depressive Symptoms: Preliminary Findings from Romania, France, and Russia pp. 1013-1028

Loredana R. Gherasim, Laura E. Brumariu and Cristina L. Alim

A Positive Perspective on Attentional Bias: Positive Affectivity and Attentional Bias to Positive Information pp. 1029-1043

Ben Grafton and Colin MacLeod

Psychological Well-Being as an Additional Outcome Parameter in the Treatment of Patients with Gambling Disorder: Results from a Clinical Multicenter Follow-Up Study pp. 1045-1059

Kai W. Müller, Lisa Naab, Klaus Wölfling, Manfred E. Beutel, Ulrike Dickenhorst and Andreas Koch

The Value of Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling in Identifying Factor Overlap in the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF): A Study with a New Zealand Sample pp. 1061-1074

Mohsen Joshanloo, Paul E. Jose and Magdalena Kielpikowski

Cross-Sectional and Prospective Associations Between Positive Emotions and General Life Satisfaction in Adolescents pp. 1075-1093

Kathleen B. Franke, E. Scott Huebner and Kimberly J. Hills

Positive and Negative Structures and Processes Underlying Academic Performance: A Chained Mediation Model pp. 1095-1119

Jekaterina Rogaten and Giovanni B. Moneta

Social Comparisons on Subjective Well-Being: The Role of Social and Cultural Capital pp. 1121-1145

Elena Barcena-Martin, Alexandra Cortés-Aguilar and Ana Moro-Egido

Gratitude and Athletes’ Life Satisfaction: The Moderating Role of Mindfulness pp. 1147-1159

Lung Hung Chen, Chia-Huei Wu and Jen-Ho Chang

My Friends Are My Estate: Friendship Experiences Mediate the Relationship Between Perceived Responses to Capitalization Attempts and Happiness pp. 1161-1190

Melikşah Demir, Andrew Haynes and Shannon K. Potts

Subjective Well-Being and Self-Reported Health in Osteoarthritis Patients Before and After Arthroplasty pp. 1191-1206

Anu Realo, Janika Johannson and Monika Schmidt

Free to Be Happy: Economic Freedom and Happiness in US States pp. 1207-1229

Jeremy Jackson

The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation pp. 1231-1254

Christian Scheve, Frederike Esche and Jürgen Schupp

Volume 18, issue 3, 2017

A Daily Process Approach to Depict Satisfaction with Life during the Menopausal Transition: Physical (In)activity, Symptoms, and Neuroticism pp. 631-645

Moé Kishida and Steriani Elavsky

The Determinants of Happiness in Turkey: Evidence from City-Level Data pp. 647-669

Kâzım Anıl Eren and Ahmet Asici

Effects of a Strengths Intervention on General and Work-Related Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Positive Affect pp. 671-689

Maria Christina Meyers and Marianne Woerkom

Subjective Happiness and Emotional Responsiveness to Food Stimuli pp. 691-708

Keiko Otake and Kenji Kato

Life Satisfaction and Cannabis Use: A Study on Young Adults pp. 709-718

Stefano Tartaglia, Anna Miglietta and Silvia Gattino

The Influence of Major Life Events and Personality Traits on the Stability of Affective Well-Being pp. 719-741

Sophie Hentschel, Michael Eid and Tanja Kutscher

The Subjective Assessment of Accomplishment and Positive Relationships: Initial Validation and Correlative and Experimental Evidence for Their Association with Well-Being pp. 743-764

Fabian Gander, René T. Proyer and Willibald Ruch

Which is More Relevant for Perceived Happiness, Individual-Level or Area-Level Social Capital? A Multilevel Mediation Analysis pp. 765-783

Takashi Oshio

The Relationship Between Group Identification and Satisfaction with Life in a Cross-Cultural Community Sample pp. 785-807

Juliet Ruth Helen Wakefield, Fabio Sani, Vishnu Madhok, Michael Norbury, Pat Dugard, Carlo Gabbanelli, Mario Arnetoli, Giampiero Beconcini, Lucia Botindari, Franco Grifoni, Paola Paoli and Fabio Poggesi

Fruit and Vegetable Intake Predicts Positive Affect pp. 809-826

Rebecca M. Warner, Kala Frye, Jesse Stabile Morrell and Gale Carey

How do you Feel About this Goal? Goal-Related Affect, Positive Orientation, and Personal Goal Realization in the Family Domain pp. 827-842

Mariola Laguna, Guido Alessandri and Gian Vittorio Caprara

The Relationship Between Parental Variables, Empathy and Prosocial-Flow with Prosocial Behavior Toward Strangers, Friends, and Family pp. 843-860

Belén Mesurado and María Cristina Richaud

Interest as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Challenge/Skills Balance and Flow at Work: An Analysis at Within-Individual Level pp. 861-880

Céline Bricteux, Jose Navarro, Lucía Ceja and Guillaume Fuerst

Individual Social Capital and Subjective Wellbeing: The Relational Goods pp. 881-901

José Atilano Pena-López, José Manuel Sánchez-Santos and Matías Membiela-Pollán

Debt and Subjective Well-being: The Other Side of the Income-Happiness Coin pp. 903-937

Louis Tay, Cassondra Batz, Scott Parrigon and Lauren Kuykendall

Volume 18, issue 2, 2017

Measuring Socio-economic Factors and Sensitivity of Happiness pp. 463-504

Hideyuki Mizobuchi

Stress and Subjective Well-Being Among First Year UK Undergraduate Students pp. 505-525

Andrew Denovan and Ann Macaskill

When Theory and Research Collide: Examining Correlates of Signature Strengths Use at Work pp. 527-548

Hadassah Littman-Ovadia, Shiri Lavy and Maayan Boiman-Meshita

Values Realized in Personal Strivings and Motivation, and Meaning in Life in Polish University Students pp. 549-573

Zuzanna Siwek, Anna Oleszkowicz and Aleksandra Słowińska

Sacrifice in a Supportive Marriage: Social Support as a Moderator Buffers the Negative Effects of Sacrifice in Marriage pp. 575-589

Wei-Fang Lin, Tsui-Shan Li and Lung Hung Chen

Daily Uplifts, Well-Being and Performance in Organizational Settings: The Differential Mediating Roles of Affect and Work Engagement pp. 591-606

Ana Junça-Silva, António Caetano and Rita Rueff Lopes

Subjective Well-Being in Mexican and Mexican American Women: The Role of Acculturation, Ethnic Identity, Gender Roles, and Perceived Social Support pp. 607-624

Tanya Diaz and Ngoc H. Bui

Less Happiness in Cities, but Why and so What? One More Reason to Stop Overpopulation pp. 625-630

Jan Ott

Volume 18, issue 1, 2017

The Relationship Between Orientations to Happiness and Job Satisfaction One Year Later in a Representative Sample of Employees in Switzerland pp. 1-15

María Luisa Martínez-Martí and Willibald Ruch

How do Curiosity, Meaning in Life, and Search for Meaning Predict College Students’ Daily Emotional Exhaustion and Engagement? pp. 17-40

Eva Garrosa, Luis Manuel Blanco-Donoso, Isabel Carmona-Cobo and Bernardo Moreno-Jiménez

Economic Hardship and Well-Being: Examining the Relative Role of Individual Resources and Welfare State Effort in Resilience Against Economic Hardship pp. 41-62

Tim Reeskens and Leen Vandecasteele

Changes with Age in Subjective Well-Being Through the Adolescent Years: Differences by Gender pp. 63-88

Mònica González-Carrasco, Ferran Casas, Sara Malo, Ferran Viñas and Tamar Dinisman

Simply Satisfied: The Role of Psychological Need Satisfaction in the Life Satisfaction of Voluntary Simplifiers pp. 89-105

Stacey A. Rich, Sharon Hanna and Bradley J. Wright

Gender Inequality in Europe and the Life Satisfaction of Working and Non-working Women pp. 107-124

Cem Başlevent and Hasan Kirmanoğlu

Impact of Working Time Mismatch on Job Satisfaction: Evidence for German Workers with Disabilities pp. 125-149

Ricardo Pagan Rodriguez

Happiness: Meaning and Determinants Among Young Adults of the Igbos of Eastern Nigeria pp. 151-175

Aaron Adibe Agbo and Blessing Ome

Does Positive Mental Health in Adolescence Longitudinally Predict Healthy Transitions in Young Adulthood? pp. 177-198

Meredith O’Connor, Ann V. Sanson, John W. Toumbourou, Jacolyn Norrish and Craig A. Olsson

Life Satisfaction and Keeping Up with Other Countries pp. 199-228

Ozan Eksi and Neslihan Kaya

Supervisors’ Ethical Leadership and Employee Job Satisfaction: A Social Cognitive Perspective pp. 229-245

Yidong Tu, Xinxin Lu and Yue Yu

Inverted U-Shaped Function Between Flow and Cortisol Release During Chess Play pp. 247-268

Tahmine Tozman, Yichelle Y. Zhang and Regina Vollmeyer

The Impact of Positive Psychological Interventions on Well-Being in Healthy Elderly People pp. 269-291

Pitchada Sutipan, Ungsinun Intarakamhang and Ann Macaskill

Self-Affirmation Theory and the Science of Well-Being pp. 293-311

Andrew J. Howell

Perceptions of the Nature of Happiness: Cultural, but Related to the Dynamics of the Human Mind and the Gratification of General Needs pp. 313-319

Jan Cornelis Ott