Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2021 Demographic Aspects of Human Wellbeing
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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2021 Demographic Aspects of Human Wellbeing
ISSN 1728-4414
Print Edition ISSN 1728-5305 Online Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-8707-3 Print Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-8784-4 Online Edition Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2021
2020, ONLINE FIRST
Richard E. Lucas
S. 67 - 89 Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften doi:10.1553/populationyearbook2021.rev01
Abstract: Subjective well-being (SWB) is an overall evaluation of the quality of a person’slife from his or her own perspective. One common method of assessing thisconstruct requires respondents to think about their life as a whole and to providea “global” evaluation that summarizes across life domains or affective experiencesover extended periods of time. The validity of these global measures has beenchallenged, however; and experiential measures, which ask respondents to reporton their momentary evaluative experiences many times over a constrained timeperiod, have been suggested as a more valid alternative. This paper addresses theempirical evidence for one important challenge to global measures: the possibilitythat temporarily salient information overwhelmingly influences global judgments,reducing their reliability and validity. This paper critiques prior evidence for thischallenge and presents new concerns about the assumed validity of the proposedalternative: experiential measures. Keywords: subjective well-being; life satisfaction; measurement; experience sampling method; day reconstruction method Published Online: 2021/06/09 11:22:51 Object Identifier: 0xc1aa5576 0x003c8cdb Rights: .
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