PSY324H5 Lecture 13: PSY Lecture 13.docx
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Which personality traits make a unique contribution to life-satisfaction: anxiety, anger, depression, anxiety and anger, anxiety and depression. The authors determined the influence of marriage on life-satisfaction of those participants who got married during the 15-year period. Getting married was associated with a 0. 23 point increase (on a 0 to 10 scale) in life satisfaction. Two-years after marriage life satisfaction returned to the same level as it was before marriage! Good relationships make you happier, bad relationships make you unhappier. Divorce typically the end of a bad relationship. Conclusion: divorce increases happiness: true, true, true, false. Remarriage is more important than giving it time. (4) the problem could be with you and could be consistent later on in later relationships. Lonliness that shadows divorce b/c its hard to find another partner right away. Happiness decreases during a bad marriag and then divorce eventually bounce back. 20 above (means above the 0 on the graph not . 2 above the line shown)
