Subjective well-being.

The Satisfaction With Life Scale

1985 • 27,321 citations

Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences.

1980 • 7,533 citations

Beyond boredom and anxiety

1975 • 5,569 citations

Mood and memory.

1981 • 5,114 citations

The Structure of Psychological Well-Being.

1970 • 4,990 citations

Mood, misattribution, and judgments of well-being: Informative and directive functions of affective states.

1983 • 4,531 citations

Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence

1974 • 4,078 citations

Social Indicators of Well-Being

1976 • 3,465 citations

The Measurement of Life Satisfaction

1961 • 2,514 citations

Social Indicators of Well-Being: Americans' Perceptions of Life Quality

1976 • 2,459 citations

Downward comparison principles in social psychology.

1981 • 2,456 citations

The pattern of human concerns

1966 • 2,081 citations

The quality of American life

1976 • 2,054 citations

Influence of extraversion and neuroticism on subjective well-being: Happy and unhappy people.

1980 • 2,043 citations

The independence of positive and negative affect.

1984 • 1,843 citations

Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?

1978 • 1,704 citations

The Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale: A Revision

1975 • 1,427 citations

Avowed happiness as an overall assessment of the quality of life

1978 • 1,380 citations

Hedonic relativism and planning the good society

1971 • 1,211 citations

Americans View Their Mental Health, 1957

1984 • 1,137 citations

Thirty Years of Research on the Subjective Well-being of Older Americans

1978 • 1,054 citations

Correlates of avowed happiness.

1967 • 951 citations

The measurement of life satisfaction

1961 • 948 citations

The opponent-process theory of acquired motivation: The costs of pleasure and the benefits of pain.

1980 • 932 citations

An Exploration of the Activity Theory of Aging: Activity Types and Life Satisfaction Among In-movers to a Retirement Community

1972 • 916 citations

Maslow reconsidered: A review of research on the need hierarchy theory

1976 • 745 citations

Subjective measures of well-being.

1976 • 743 citations

The structure of mood change: An idiographic/nomothetic analysis.

1982 • 722 citations

Intensity and frequency: Dimensions underlying positive and negative affect.

1985 • 672 citations

An Analysis of a Short Self-Report Measure of Life Satisfaction: Correlation With Rater Judgments

1969 • 579 citations

Health and Social Factors Related to Life Satisfaction

1972 • 572 citations

Affectometer 2: A scale to measure current level of general happiness

1983 • 488 citations

On the independence of positive and negative affect.

1983 • 483 citations

The Sense of Well-Being in America: Recent Patterns and Trends. by Angus Campbell

1982 • 475 citations

Correlates of Life Satisfaction: A Re-examination

1973 • 420 citations

An evaluation of subjective well-being measures

1985 • 419 citations

Development of a program to increase personal happiness.

1977 • 400 citations

Person???Situation interactions: Choice of situations and congruence response models.

1984 • 386 citations

Reports on Happiness.

1966 • 371 citations

Temporal stability and cross-situational consistency of affective, behavioral, and cognitive responses.

1984 • 341 citations

The Relativism of Absolute Judgments

1968 • 340 citations

Analysis of a Life Satisfaction Index

1969 • 335 citations

Health and Subjective Well-Being: A Meta-Analyis

1984 • 334 citations

Developing Measures of Perceived Life Quality: Results from Several National Surveys

2005 • 329 citations

Correlates of Life Satisfaction Among the Aged

1974 • 328 citations

Mood and Personality

1967 • 324 citations

A program to increase happiness: Further studies.

1983 • 319 citations

The Measurement of Happiness: Development of the Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness (MUNSH)

1980 • 300 citations

The Job-Satisfaction/ Life-Satisfaction Relationship: A Review of Empirical Research

1980 • 294 citations

Perceived life satisfaction and the organization of personal project systems.

1983 • 283 citations

Economic Predictors of Depressed Mood and Stressful Life Events in a Metropolitan Community

1977 • 283 citations

Satisfaction and Happiness

2005 • 274 citations

The Relationship Between Work and Nonwork Domains: A Review of Empirical Research

1980 • 272 citations

Quality of Life in Older Persons: Meaning and Measurement.

1981 • 248 citations

The Contribution of Marital Happiness to Global Happiness

1981 • 241 citations

Change in Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study of Persons Aged 46-70

1977 • 233 citations

Predictors of Successful Aging

1979 • 229 citations

The inheritance of affective disorders: A review of data and of hypotheses

1976 • 223 citations

A study of psychological well‐being

1978 • 218 citations

A Causal Model of Life Satisfaction Among the Elderly

1979 • 218 citations

Life events and perceptions of life quality: Developments in a two-factor approach

1983 • 211 citations

An Analysis of the Validity of Health Questionnaires

1958 • 203 citations

The Contribution of Marriage to the Psychological Well-Being of Males and Females

1975 • 200 citations

The structure of psychological well-being: A sociohistorical analysis.

1982 • 198 citations

Income Distribution and Self-Rated Happiness: Some Empirical Evidence

1977 • 195 citations

Happiness and Social Participation in Aging

1975 • 185 citations

Components and Correlates of Mental Well-Being

1974 • 183 citations

Analysis of happiness

1976 • 171 citations

Some relations between pleasant and unpleasant mood-related events and depression.

1978 • 171 citations

Happiness: Time Trends, Seasonal Variations, Intersurvey Differences, and Other Mysteries

1979 • 169 citations

The contribution of job and leisure satisfaction to quality of life.

1977 • 169 citations

Life Satisfaction across Four Stages of Adult Life

1980 • 167 citations

The Social Activity/Subjective Well-Being Relation

1984 • 165 citations

Life events and personal causation: Some relationships with satisfaction and distress.

1981 • 161 citations

Self-awareness and aversive experience in everyday life

1982 • 158 citations

Effect of temporary mood states on selective memory about the self.

1982 • 152 citations

Activity and Morale: A Longitudinal Study of Selected Elderly Subjects

1963 • 148 citations

Life Satisfaction in the United States

1976 • 140 citations

Social Participation and Happiness

1967 • 134 citations

Physical Attractiveness, Happiness, Neuroticism, and Self-Esteem

1975 • 132 citations

Correlates of Satisfaction Among the Elderly

1971 • 130 citations

A Note on Family Situation and Global Happiness

1979 • 125 citations

A causal correlational test of the need hierarchy concept

1972 • 125 citations

The Mood Survey: A Personality Measure of Happy and Sad Moods

1980 • 124 citations

The Effects of Offspring on the Psychological Well-Being of Older Adults

1981 • 119 citations

The Happiness Syndrome: Methodological and Substantive Issues in the Study of Social-Psychological Well-being in Adulthood

1979 • 118 citations

Human Needs and Satisfactions: A Global Survey

1976 • 117 citations

Subjective Well-Being and Physical Health: A Narrative Literature Review with Suggestions for Future Research

1984 • 111 citations

A Retesting and Modification of the Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale

1975 • 110 citations

Life Satisfaction and Religion: A Reanalysis

1978 • 107 citations

The Affect Balance Scale: A Validity Study With Aged Samples

1974 • 105 citations

Are Working Women Really More Satisfied? Evidence from Several National Surveys

1978 • 102 citations

Happiness among adult students of education.

1930 • 101 citations

Predictors of Happiness

1983 • 97 citations

The Dimensions of Psychological Well-Being

1975 • 91 citations

The Life Satisfaction Index: a Methodological and Theoretical Critique

1983 • 91 citations

Psychological and Social Correlates of Life Satisfaction as a Function of Residential Constraint

1976 • 86 citations

Validity and Stability of a New Desired Control Measure Pertaining to Psychological Adjustment of the Elderly

1980 • 85 citations

Psychological well-being in great Britain: An evaluation of the Bradburn Affect Balance Scale

1982 • 82 citations

Membership in Different Types of Voluntary Associations and Psychological Well-Being

1976 • 81 citations

The Quality of Life in Large American Cities: Objective and Subjective Social Indicators

2005 • 81 citations

Voluntary Association Participation and Life Satisfaction: A Cautionary Research Note

1973 • 78 citations

Assessment of temperament in infant twins.

1983 • 76 citations

Retirement Choice and Retirement Satisfaction

1978 • 73 citations

Adjustment and Situationally-Bound Locus of Control Among Institutionalized Aged

1974 • 73 citations

The Structure of Subjective Well-Being in Nine Western Societies

2005 • 72 citations

Mood as an Indicant of Happiness: Age, Sex, Social Class, and Situational Differences

1975 • 72 citations

Some psychological effects associated with positive and negative thinking about stressful event outcomes: Was Pollyanna right?

1985 • 72 citations

The Relationship Between Age and Engagement in Pleasant Activities

1974 • 70 citations

Life Satisfaction and Activity Theory: a Multidimensional Approach

1980 • 69 citations

Voluntary Association Participation and Life Satisfaction: A Replication Note

1975 • 68 citations

Age Variations in the Dimensionality of Life Satisfaction

1979 • 67 citations

Properties of an inventory to measure happiness (and psychological health).

1979 • 66 citations

Individual Differences in Pollyannaism

1979 • 65 citations

Life Cycle Squeeze and the Morale Curve

1978 • 65 citations

Some research issues and findings in the study of psychological well-being in the aged.

1978 • 64 citations

Personality traits associated with variations in happiness.

1934 • 62 citations

Social resources and the quality of life

1983 • 62 citations

Evaluative judgments of aspects of life as a function of vicarious exposure to hedonic extremes.

1979 • 62 citations

The life satisfaction of nonnormal persons.

1973 • 59 citations

A Multivariate Analysis of Correlates of Life Satisfaction in Adulthood

1970 • 55 citations

Demands and desires in daily life: Some influences on well‐being

1983 • 54 citations

Unique Variance in Job and Life Satisfaction Associated with Work-Related and Extra-Workplace Variables

1979 • 52 citations

Predicting the Dimensions of Life Satisfaction

1976 • 50 citations

Is Ignorance Bliss? A Reconsideration of the Folk Wisdom

1981 • 49 citations

JOB SATISFACTION AS A COMPONENT OF HAPPINESS AMONG MALES AND FEMALES

1978 • 49 citations

The Idea of Happiness.

1968 • 48 citations

Test of a Model of Domain Satisfactions and Well-Being

1982 • 47 citations

Education's Effects on Psychological Well-Being

1981 • 47 citations

Positive life events and reports of well‐being: Some useful distinctions

1980 • 46 citations

Evolving Sources of Happiness for Men over the Life Cycle: A Structural Analysis

1976 • 46 citations

Correlates of Life Satisfaction: An Aid Analysis

1980 • 45 citations

Constraint and Life Satisfaction

1972 • 45 citations

The measurement of mothers' work attitudes

1980 • 43 citations

Morale of the Urban Aged: a Regression Analysis by Race

1977 • 39 citations

Socioeconomic Correlates for Four Dimensions of Self-Perceived Satisfaction, 1972

1974 • 38 citations

Financial Weil-being Among the Aged: A Further Elaboration

1980 • 37 citations

The Well-Being of Persons Remarried after Divorce

1981 • 36 citations

Effects of Health on Disengagement and Morale

1971 • 35 citations

Measures of Well-Being: An Empirical and Critical Assessment

1974 • 34 citations

Enjoyment as a preventive of depressive affect

1975 • 33 citations

An attempt to determine some correlates and dimensions of hedonic tone.

1961 • 33 citations

Life Satisfaction and Activity Involvement: Implications for Leisure Service

1979 • 32 citations

The concept of happiness.

1975 • 31 citations

Pleasant events, unpleasant events, and depression.

1982 • 31 citations

Situational Influences on Leisure Satisfaction and Morale in Old Age†

1980 • 31 citations

The measurement of depression-elation and its relation to a measure of extraversion-introversion.

1930 • 31 citations

Religious Activity, Denomination Membership and Life Satisfaction.

1982 • 30 citations

Race Differences in Selected Attitudinal Dimensions of the Elderly

1968 • 28 citations

Factors Related to the Social Adjustment of College Girls

1941 • 28 citations

Determinants of Life Satisfaction: a Note on a Race-interaction Hypothesis

1983 • 28 citations

Anomia, Self-esteem, and Life Satisfaction: Interrelationships Among Three Scales of Well-being

1979 • 28 citations

An Objective Approach to the Measurement and Use of Life Satisfaction With Older Persons

1982 • 26 citations

Age and the Satisfactions from Work

1979 • 26 citations

Economics and psychosocial dysfunction: Toward a conceptual framework and prevention strategies

1983 • 26 citations

Resident and staff perceptions of latitude of choice in elderly institutionalized men

1980 • 25 citations

Age differences in life satisfaction as a function of discrepancy between real and ideal self concepts

1975 • 24 citations

Happiness, depression, and the Pollyanna principle

1980 • 23 citations

Relation of real self-rating to mood and blame, and their interaction in depression.

1964 • 22 citations

Life Events and Decision Making by Older Adults

1978 • 21 citations

What is "Morale"? A Case History of a Validity Problem

1958 • 21 citations

The pursuit of happiness

1953 • 20 citations

A test of the utility of social indicators for behavioral health service planning

1982 • 19 citations

A Survey of the Reinforcements and Activities Elderly Citizens Feel Are Important for Their General Happiness.

1977 • 19 citations

A quantitative determination of euphoria and its relation to sleep.

1935 • 17 citations

The Blind as “Ordinary People”

1978 • 17 citations

Personality correlates of the joy of life

1978 • 16 citations

An Inquiry into the Positive Personal and Social Effects of Old Age Stereotypes among the Elderly

1982 • 15 citations

Illusory correlation in popular beliefs about the causes of happiness.

1982 • 15 citations

Life quality changes following an endurance conditioning program.

1978 • 14 citations

Modern western society: A geographical perspective on work, home, and well-being

1981 • 14 citations

Positive contrast as due to happiness

1982 • 13 citations

The pursuit of happiness

1981 • 11 citations

Racial Differences in Life Satisfaction

1976 • 11 citations

Further evidence of the relation of the euphoric attitude to sleep and exercise

1938 • 10 citations

MONEY AND HAPPINESS?: TOWARDS ?EUDAIMONOLOGY?

1980 • 10 citations

A study in the estimation of feelings.

1935 • 8 citations

Certain subjective correlates of sleep quality and their relation to the euphoric attitude.

1942 • 6 citations

Level of aspiration, life satisfaction, and locus of control in older adults

1982 • 6 citations

A Study of Factors Related to a Feeling of Happiness

1956 • 6 citations

The relationship of sex role typing to life satisfaction in older persons

1976 • 4 citations

Objective, subjective and continuity correlates of life satisfaction in an elderly population

1972 • 3 citations

ACTIVITY CHOICE, PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING, DEGREE OF SATISFACTION, AND PERSONALITY FACTORS IN EDUCATED, MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN.

1974 • 3 citations