@article{ref1,
title="Day-to-day affect is surprisingly stable: a two-year longitudinal study of well-being",
journal="Social psychological and personality science",
year="2017",
author="Hudson, Nathan W. and Lucas, Richard E. and Donnellan, M. Brent",
volume="8",
number="1",
pages="45-54",
abstract="Previous research suggests global assessments of cognitive well-being-life satisfaction-are relatively stable over time. Far fewer studies have examined the extent to which experiential measures of affective well-being-the moods/emotions people regularly experience-are stable, especially over extended periods of time. The present study used longitudinal data from a representative sample of Germans to investigate the long-term stability of different components of well-being. Participants provided global ratings of life satisfaction and affect, along with experiential measures of well-being up to three times over two years. <br><br>RESULTS indicated between one third and one half of the variance in people's daily affect was attributable to trait-like latent variables. Replicating meta-analytic findings, 50% of the variance in global measures of well-being was attributable to trait-like latent variables.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1948-5506",
doi="10.1177/1948550616662129",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550616662129"
}