The Contribution of Job and Partner Satisfaction to the Homeostatic Defense of Subjective Wellbeing

Autor/inn/en	Lai, Lufanna C. H.; Cummins, Robert A.
Titel	The Contribution of Job and Partner Satisfaction to the Homeostatic Defense of Subjective Wellbeing
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 111 (2013) 1, S.203-217 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-011-9991-6
Schlagwörter	Psychological Patterns; Well Being; Individual Differences; Foreign Countries; Job Satisfaction; Life Satisfaction; Models; Asians; Sampling; Surveys; Correlation; Interpersonal Relationship; Marital Satisfaction; Social Indicators; Australia; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Individueller Unterschied; Ausland; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Lebensvollendung; Analogiemodell; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Korrelation; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Australien; Hongkong
Abstract	Two studies investigate subjective wellbeing (SWB) homeostasis. The first investigates the contribution of job satisfaction (JS) and partner satisfaction (PS) to the homeostatic defense of SWB. The extant model of homeostasis does not include either variable. The second study investigates the relationship between Homeostatically Protected Mood (HPMood) and other factors involved in the homeostatic model. It has been proposed that HPMood is the basic, biologically determined, positive mood that saturates SWB and other related variables, and forms the basis of the SWB set-point. Thus, if HPMood is an individual difference and it perfuses other homeostatic variables, then HPMood should be responsible for much of the shared variance between such variables. Two comparative samples are involved. One is a group of 171 Hong Kong Chinese recruited through convenience sampling. The other is a group of 343 Australians recruited via a general population survey. Results indicate that both JS and PS predict significant variance in Global Life Satisfaction beyond the existing factors in the homeostatic model. It is also found that, after controlling for the effect of HPMood, the strength of correlations between SWB and other homeostatic variables is significantly diminished. The implications of these findings are discussed. (As Provided).
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