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标题：Charting the internal landscape: Affect associated with thoughts about major life domains explains life satisfaction
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作者：Miron-Shatz, Talya ; Diener, Ed ; Doniger, Glen M. 等
期刊名称：Judgment and Decision Making
印刷版ISSN：1930-2975
出版年度：2013
卷号：8
期号：5
页码：603-616
出版社：Society for Judgment and Decision Making
摘要：Studies of happiness have examined the impact of demographics, personality and emotions accompanying daily activities on life satisfaction. We suggest that how people feel while contemplating aspects of their lives, including their weight, children and future prospects, is a promising yet uncharted territory within the internal landscape of life satisfaction. In a sample of 811 American women, we assessed women's feelings when thinking about major life domains and frequency of thoughts about each domain. Regression and dominance analyses showed that emotional valence of thoughts about major life domains was an important predictor of current and prior life satisfaction, surpassing, in descending order, demographics, participants' feelings during recent activities, and their neuroticism and extraversion scores. Domains thought about more frequently were often associated with greater emotional valence. These results suggest that life satisfaction may be improved by modifying emotional valence and frequency of thoughts about life domains. Moreover, these thoughts appear to be an important and relatively stable component of well-being worthy of further study.
关键词：life satisfaction; life domains; rumination; savoring; activities; time use.