Unemployment Alters the Set Point for Life Satisfaction

According to set-point theories of subjective well-being, people react to events but then return to baseline levels of happiness and satisfaction over time. We tested this idea by-examining reaction and adaptation to unemployment in a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 24,000 individuals living...

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Veröffentlicht in:Psychological science 2004-01, Vol.15 (1), p.8-13
Hauptverfasser: Lucas, Richard E., Clark, Andrew E., Georgellis, Yannis, Diener, Ed
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