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The Effect of Mood on Judgments of Subjective Well-Being: Nine Tests of the Judgment Model
Life satisfaction judgments are thought to represent an overall evaluation
of the quality of a person’s life as a whole. Thus, they should reflect
relatively important and stable characteristics of that person’s life.
Previous highly cited research has suggested that transient factors, such
as the mood that a person experiences at the time that well-being judgments
are made, can influence these judgments. However, most existing studies
used small sample sizes, and few replications have been attempted. Nine
direct and conceptual replications of past studies testing the effects of
mood on life satisfaction judgments were conducted using sample sizes that
were considerably larger than previous studies (Ns = 202, 200, 269, 118,
320, 401, 285, 129, 122). Most of the nine studies resulted in
nonsignificant effects on life satisfaction and happiness judgments, and
those that were significant were substantially smaller than effects found
in previous research.
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The Effect of Mood on Judgments of Subjective Well-Being: Nine Tests of the Judgment Model
Life satisfaction judgments are thought to represent an overall evaluation
of the quality of a person’s life as a whole. Thus, they should reflect
relatively important and stable characteristics of that person’s life.
Previous highly cited research has suggested that transient factors, such
as the mood that a person experiences at the time that well-being judgments
are made, can influence these judgments. However, most existing studies
used small sample sizes, and few replications have been attempted. Nine
direct and conceptual replications of past studies testing the effects of
mood on life satisfaction judgments were conducted using sample sizes that
were considerably larger than previous studies (Ns = 202, 200, 269, 118,
320, 401, 285, 129, 122). Most of the nine studies resulted in
nonsignificant effects on life satisfaction and happiness judgments, and
those that were significant were substantially smaller than effects found
in previous research.
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