Can happiness be reliably increased? Thousands of studies speak to this question.
However, many of them were conducted during a period in which researchers commonly “p …

Over the last decades, theoretical perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of the affective
sciences have proliferated rather than converged due to differing assumptions about what …

Psychological science has typically conceptualized a good life in terms of either hedonic or
eudaimonic well-being. We propose that psychological richness is another, neglected …

Federations are concerned about attracting new sportsmen and sportswomen and
increasing the number of members. The purpose of this research was to describe karate …

Despite being a valued resource for adolescent health and development, the field maintains
an incomplete view of how youths' sense of purpose in life corresponds with their subjective …

There is an increasingly prevalent expectation in contemporary society that employees be
passionate for their work. Here, we suggest that employers and employees can have …

Many of our endeavors--be it personal or communal, technological or artistic--aim at
eradicating all traces of dissatisfaction from our daily lives. They seek to cure us of our …

Objectives The present study explored the psychometric properties of the Equanimity Scale-
16 (ES-16) in the Indian population. It also investigated the parallel connections between …

We examined how lay beliefs about meaning in life relate to experiences of personal
meaning. In Study 1 (N= 406) meaning in life was perceived to be a common experience …

There are various ways in which, and reasons why, people can think that they matter. In
three studies (total N= 1,528 US adults and undergraduates) we investigated perceptions of …