Being able to distinguish and measure 15 distinct self-transcendent states is an important step toward a better understanding ...

If you leave interactions feeling worse about yourself, that’s a sign the friendship is doing more harm than good. True ...

Self-appraisal may worsen depression because the utility of self-appraisal depends on the attitude of the appraiser.

The Valentine’s Scale helps couples assess their relationship satisfaction. It is scientifically tested and reliable.

They used survey data to measure people’s happiness, life satisfaction ... which were published in the journal Aging & Mental Health. But the scales soon tipped the other way. Older Britons’ mental ...

Quality management can evidently generate improvements in quality. However, receiving criticism and the pressure to make improvements is psychologically burdensome. We hypothesize that this pressure ...

University of Chicago psychology professor Shigehiro Oishi has spent his career studying happiness, meaning and what truly ...

Body mass index (BMI), calculated from self-reported weight and height, served as the measure of overweight and obesity. Happiness was assessed using a single-item question about life satisfaction, ...

What he has discovered along the way is a deeper study of happiness that can apply to those ... and based on the question – on a scale of 0 to 10: 'Overall, how satisfied are you with your ...

Measuring a country's subjective levels of happiness ... This index is based on the subjective happiness ratings of large-scale nationally representative samples. It allowed us to determine how the ...