PSY 706 Lecture 3: Week 3- Relationships & Positive Emotions
11 Dec 2019
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Close relationships is correlated with well-being: quasi-experimental methods indicate that close relationships produces well-being. We need to belong: need close & intimate relationships that we can benefit from, support & affection. Report that marital relationship is their closest & most significant relationship. Most people around the world eventually marry. Selection effects= whether certain individuals select themselves into certain situations/ environment due to having certain traits: eg: whether happy/ extraverts people select themselves into marriage. Mastekassa= se only accounted for small part of the link between marriage & wb: data doesn"t support se as full alternative explanation for relationship. Short term boost in happiness, but boost faded as years progressed. The picture of happiness is more complex than : getting stuff we think we want, making lots of money, living in rich nation, getting married, having kids/ not having kids, whether we have a good/high chronic level of happiness. We have a set range of happiness but change can still happen.
