Personal Goals as Windows to Well-Being
Self-Regulation and Control
Virtue and Strength of Character
Close Relationships and Well-Being
Tests 1 & 2
100
The study of American and South Korean college students by Sheldon and his colleagues tested 10 needs for universal status. According to their study, these four needs might qualify as universal across cultures.
What are self-esteem, relatedness, autonomy, and competence?
100
Gollwitzer’s distinction between goal intentions and implementation intentions has to do with the difference between these.
What is a desire and a definite plan of action?
100
This virtue connects the individual to larger and deeper meanings of life.
What transcendence?
100
These four components are one of things we enjoy the most about our relationships, help release tensions and stress as well as characterize happy couples married over 50 years.
What is Humor, teasing, playful banter, and laughing together?
100
One of the more noteworthy findings of survey researchers studying subjective well-being or happiness is that the connection between these is very weak except for the very poor.
What is money and happiness?
200
As described by Markus and Nurius, these refer to our imagined future selves, who we want to become and who we are afraid of becoming.
What are our possible selves?
200
Research by Baumeister and his colleagues suggests that this is a limited resource like a muscle that tires with repeated use.
What is self-control?
200
This questionnaire was developed by Values in Action Project (VIA) researchers to measure 24 strengths of character.
What is the Signature Strengths Questionnaire?
200
Consistent with the direct effects hypothesis of social support, Shelly Gable and her colleagues have documented this process that refers to the additional emotional benefits that come from sharing a positive life event with other people.
What is capitalization?
200
Masten describes this as resilient responses are quite common and stem from normal and everyday capacities and conditions.
What is “ordinary magic”?
300
According to this, goals that are most likely to increase well-being when pursued and achieved are those that fit and express a person’s needs, values, and self-concept.
What is the matching hypothesis?
300
These tend to evoke anxiety and self-defensiveness, may reduce feelings of competence and self-esteem, and are more likely to feel imposed rather than freely chosen.
What is avoidance goals?
300
Research investigating the characteristics that define these people have found that wisdom is defined by knowledge and judgment related to the conduct of a virtuous life.
What is a wise person?
300
These factors are the fundamental difference between romantic love and companionate love.
What is passion or friendship?
300
Research reviewed by George Bonano suggests that resilience is a distinct pattern of response to trauma that is quite different than this longstanding clinical psychology concept.
What is recovery?
400
A student who claims that their main reason for attending college is because they would feel guilty and anxious if they didn’t, perhaps because they would disappoint their parents, would fit this type of motive or reason for going to college.
What is introjected?
400
As a potential solution to goal conflict and multiple goals, this refers to ways of pursuing one goal that enhances the success of achieving other goals.
What is intergoal facilitation?
400
As shown in national surveys over the last 50 years, this percentage of Americans said they believed in God or a higher power?
What is over 90%?
400
In this theory, different varieties of love are based on intimacy, passion, and commitment.
What is Sternberg’s triangular theory of love?
400
Studies of the aging process show that most people over this age rate their self-esteem and life satisfaction as high as any other period of adulthood.
What is the age of 65?
500
Studies showing that materialistic people have unmet needs and doubts about their self-worth and their acceptance by others suggests that strong financial aspirations may be motivated by this.
What is compensating for psychological insecurity?
500
This has been found to produce short-term benefits, but longer-term costs.
What is procrastination?
500
Researchers have found that higher-quality family life, self-esteem, optimism, social support, and enhanced mental health are consistently linked to this type of religious orientation?
What is intrinsic?
500
In Gottman and his colleagues’s “love lab” studies, they found that found that happy/stable couples were distinguished from those headed for divorce by this.
What is the ratio of positive to negative behaviors?
500
According to the research of Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, these three assumptions or beliefs are shattered by trauma and loss.
What are personal invulnerability, meaningfulness, and positive view of self?
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