What makes a life good
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6202893 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura A King (0000-0002-3753-2575), Christie K Napa |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 156-165 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.75.1.156 |
| OpenAlex | W4242277481 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 103 |
Health, psychology, and well-being · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Psychology · Social Psychology · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
Mapping of Meaning and Pleasure on the Temporal Horizon
Can Money Buy Happiness
Where Does Purpose Belong in Well-Being Theory?
Nostalgia as a Resource for Psychological Health and Well‐Being
A Review of the Tripartite Structure of Subjective Well-Being
Materialism as an attempt to cope with uncertainty
Flow at work
The Optimum Level of Well-Being
Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction
Eavesdropping on Happiness
Personal Income and Subjective Well-being
Meaningful work as realization and justification
How Do People Pursue Happiness?
Pursuing Pleasure or Virtue
When death thoughts lead to death fears
Culture and conceptions of happiness
Purpose in life and use of preventive health care services
Narrative identity and eudaimonic well-being
Is a life without meaning satisfying? The moderating role of the search for meaning in satisfaction with life judgments
Hope and emotional well-being
The power of the past
Discrete Emotions in Later Life
Analysis of Well-Being and Anxiety among University Students
The Engine of Well-Being
Individuals’ Assessments of Their Own Wellbeing, Subjective Welfare, and Good Life
Can Money Buy Happiness
Meaning and Perceptions of the Good Life in Ghana
Irrational Happiness Beliefs Scale
Childhood Socioeconomic Status Shapes Beliefs About Hedonic Versus Eudaimonic Happiness
What have we learned about fear of happiness? A review of a decade of empirical research
A hypothetic model for examining the relationship between happiness, forgiveness, emotional reactivity and emotional security
Exploratory analysis of strength domains and association with subjective and psychological well-being among Canadian adolescents
Do people choose happiness? Anticipated happiness affects both intuitive and deliberative decision-making
What does true devotion look like
What makes a life meaningful? Folk intuitions about the content and shape of meaningful lives
Happier and greener? The relationship between subjective well-being and environmental performance
Target Happiness Attenuates Perceivers’ Moral Condemnation of Prejudiced People
Implicit Theories of Happiness
Salutogenic health measures
The folk concept of the good life
Taking the Morality Out of Happiness
Taking Stock of Happiness and Meaning in Everyday Life
Poor but Happy? Income, Happiness, and Experienced and Expected Meaning in Life
More Happiness for Young People and Less for Mature Adults
What does Pisa Tell Us about the Paradoxes of Students’ Well-Being and their Academic Competencies in Mainland China
Research
Money Consciousness and the Tendency to Violate the Five Precepts Among Thai Buddhists
Development and Validation of the Perceived Life Significance Scale
Bereavement of Israeli Arab Muslim widows
Happiness and Longevity
French Adaptation of the Orientation to Happiness Scale and Its Relationship to Quality of Life in French Students
American college students’ understandings of the good life
An Interactivist-Hermeneutic Metatheory for Positive Psychology
Miraculous Meaning
Views of a good life and allostatic load
Finding meaning in self-control
People value the pursuit of potential-realization more than belonging, happiness, and status
In Pursuit of a Good Life
Does personal social media usage affect efficiency and well-being
What is satisfying about satisfying events? Testing 10 candidate psychological needs
The Fragility of Happiness Scale
The negative shadow cast by positive psychology
Self-actualizing
What is the good life? Positive psychology and the renaissance of humanistic psychology
Downsides of an Overly Context‐Sensitive Self
What Constitutes a Good Life? Cultural Differences in the Role of Positive and Negative Affect in Subjective Well‐Being
The Role of Personality in Psychotherapy for Anxiety and Depression
Positive affect and the experience of meaning in life
Place matters
The Current Evidence Base and Future Needs in Improving Children’s Well-Being Across Europe
Do Social Network Sites Enhance or Undermine Subjective Well‐Being? A Critical Review
Biodiversity, environmental health and human well-being
Good and bad days at work
Meaning Reconstruction in Bereavement
Managing the experience co-creation process in tourism destinations
The meaningful life in Japan and the United States
Stories of Life Transition
Lay beliefs about meaning in life
A good life story
The psychologically rich life questionnaire
What is it we are longing for? Psychological and demographic factors influencing the contents of Sehnsucht (life longings)
Being good by doing good
Is valuing happiness associated with lower well-being? A factor-level analysis using the Valuing Happiness Scale
A good life is a personal life
Religious commitment and positive mood as information about meaning in life
Longitudinal examinations of changes in well-being during the early period of the Covid-19 pandemic
An Overview of Research on Positive Psychology in South Africa
When do victim group members feel a moral obligation to help suffering others
Hanin
Psychologists’ Search for the Good Life
The Hard Road to the Good Life
Pleasure now, meaning later
The Effects of Making Public Service Employees Aware of Their Prosocial and Societal Impact
Optimizing well-being
Interpreting the Good Life
Interpretation of self-talk and post-lecture affective states of higher education students
The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect
Culture, Visual Perspective, and the Effect of Material Success on Perceived Life Quality
What Defines the Good Person? Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Experts' Models With Lay Prototypes
Is the Good Life the Easy Life
| Unique citing works | 103 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,96 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 102 |