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Do people really adapt to marriage?
Although cross-sectional studies have shown a reliable association between marital status and subjective well-being, a recent longitudinal study (Lucas, Clark, Georgellis, & Diener, 2003) found no support for the idea that happiness increases after marriage. Instead, participants who got married reported short-term increases followed by complete adaptation back to baseline levels of well-being. However, researchers have criticized this study on two grounds. First, these results contradict cohort-based analyses from a nationally representative sample. Second, these analyses do not control for pre-marriage cohabitation, which could potentially inflate baseline levels of well-being. The original data (plus four additional waves) are reanalyzed to address these concerns. Results confirm that individuals do not get a lasting boost in life satisfaction following marriage.life satisfaction anticipation ; habituation ; marriage ; cohabitation
Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
We use fourteen waves of the German panel data to ask whether individuals, after life and labour market events, return to some baseline wellbeing level. Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, significant lag and lead effects are present. Men are more affected by labour market events (unemployment and layoffs) and women by life events (marriage and divorce). Anticipation is an important component of individual wellbeing. Last, we show that happiness does not provide insurance against hard knocks: those with high baseline satisfaction are most adversely affected by negative events.Life Satisfaction; Anticipation; Habituation; Baseline Satisfaction; Labour Market and Family Events
Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead effects. We cannot reject the hypothesis of complete adaptation to marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men are somewhat more affected by labour market events (unemployment and layoffs) than are women, but in general the patterns of anticipation and adaptation are remarkably similar by sex.life satisfaction, anticipation, adaptation, baseline satisfaction, labour market and lifeevents
Developing Your Research and Literature Review
This presentation was given during the College of Education Summer Graduate Research Workshop
Performance of 15-Stage Experimental J71 Axial-Flow Compressor. III - Effects of Inlet-Guide-Vane Adjustment
The stall-limit line at low speeds was improved somewhat by closing the inlet guide vanes 6 deg, while the design-speed maximum flow and pressure ratio were reduced. The first-stage characteristic curve was moved to lower values of both flog coefficient and equivalent pressure ratio. The second-stage pressure ratio was decreased slightly at high speeds, while the later stages were unaffected
Solar system chaos and the Paleocene-Eocene boundary age constrained by geology and astronomy
Astronomical calculations reveal the solar system's dynamical evolution,
including its chaoticity, and represent the backbone of cyclostratigraphy and
astrochronology. An absolute, fully calibrated astronomical time scale has
hitherto been hampered beyond 50 Ma, because orbital calculations
disagree before that age. Here we present geologic data and a new astronomical
solution (ZB18a), showing exceptional agreement from 58 to 53 Ma. We
provide a new absolute astrochronology up to 58 Ma and a new Paleocene-Eocene
boundary age (56.01 0.05 Ma). We show that the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal
Maximum (PETM) onset occurred near a 405-kyr eccentricity maximum, suggesting
an orbital trigger. We also provide an independent PETM duration (170 30
kyr) from onset to recovery inflection. Our astronomical solution requires a
chaotic resonance transition at 50 Ma in the solar system's fundamental
frequencies.Comment: Supplementary materials available at this URL:
www2.hawaii.edu/~zeebe/Astro.htm
Experienced Well-Being and Labor Market Status: The Role of Pleasure and Meaning
This paper examines the experienced well-being of employed and unemployed workers. We use the survey-adapted Day Reconstruction Method of the Innovation Sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study to analyze the role of the employment status for well-being, incorporating time use. We use the novel P-index to summarize the average share of pleasurable minutes on a day and show that in contrast to evaluative life satisfaction the unemployed experiences more pleasurable minutes due to the absence of working episodes. Hence, we examine working episodes in depth. While working is among the activities with the highest propensities for an unpleasant experience, it is also among the most meaningful activities. We show that meaning is a central non-monetary determinant for pleasure at work and find that pleasure during work and job satisfaction have a comparable association with meaning
Multiple over-all performance and rotating-stall characteristics of a 15-stage experimental axial-flow compressor at an intermediate speed
The 15-stage experimental axial-flow compressor was investigated at 78.5 percent of design speed, which falls in the region of the surge-limit line discontinuity. In this region indications of multiple characteristic curves of compressor operation had been found. On the basis of previous stage-matching analyses, these multiple performance characteristics appear to be the result of multiple-valued stage performance characteristics. At this speed of 78.5 percent, at least six separate characteristic performance curves were found, associated with five different numbers of rotating stall configurations, from zero to four stall zones. It was difficult in many cases to repeat a given performance curve by approaching the test speed in a similar manner, and many of the curves were not stable, the no-stall curve being the only definitely repeatable one. In some cases a jump from one curve to another took place at the surge point, while in others the change occurred within the usual limits of a conventional performance curve and without any sudden obvious changes in observed data. In general, as the number of zones in the rotating-stall pattern decreased, the maximum weight flow, maximum efficiency, and maximum pressure ratio of the resultant curves were increased. It appears, therefore, that multiple performance characteristics at the given speed are encountered in the region of the discontinuity of the surge line
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