34 research outputs found
The Accuracy of Significance Tests for Slope Variance Components in Multilevel Random Coefficient Models
Strengthening school principals’ professional development through effective school ownership in Norwegian municipalities
Time Does Not Heal All Wounds: A Longitudinal Study of Reaction and Adaptation to Divorce
Comparison of methods of handling missing time-invariant covariates in latent growth models under the assumption of missing completely at random
10.1177/1094428106295499Organizational Research Methods104609-63
Unemployment Alters the Set Point for Life Satisfaction
According to set-point theories of subjective well-being, people react to events but then return to baseline levels of happiness and satisfaction over time. We tested this idea by examining reaction and adaptation to unemployment in a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 24,000 individuals living in Germany. In accordance with set-point theories, individuals reacted strongly to unemployment and then shifted back toward their baseline levels of life satisfaction. However, on average, individuals did not completely return to their former levels of satisfaction, even after they became reemployed. Furthermore, contrary to expectations from adaptation theories, people who had experienced unemployment in the past did not react any less negatively to a new bout of unemployment than did people who had not been previously unemployed. These results suggest that although life satisfaction is moderately stable over time, life events can have a strong influence on long-term levels of subjective well-being