caa a22 4500 469037024 CHVBK 20180323132758.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00304394 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00304394 Stability and change in subjective well-being over short time periods [Elektronische Daten] [Kerry Chamberlain, Sheryl Zika] Recent research has reported high stability for subjective well-being over periods as long as 9 years, concluding that well-being is essentially unaffected by environmental change. Other research has suggested well-being is responsive to change in life circumstances, and appropriate for use as an adaptational outcome variable. The present research examined the stability of well-being over short periods (3-6 months) using a range of well-being measures. Two different samples, mothers with young children and elderly persons, provided assessments of well-being and every day stressors (hassles) on three occasions, three months apart, as well as the personality measure, sense of coherence. Results demonstrated high consistency in well-being, but also found it to be influenced by environmental events and personality. With prior well-being controlled, current well-being was predicted by current hassles but not by past hassles. Coherence explained limited variance in current well-being with pror well-being controlled. Of the three factors, prior well-being, current hassles, and coherence, prior well-being was the strongest predictor of present well-being. These findings were consistent across the range of well-being measures, and replicated across the samples. Implications for the use of well-being as an adaptational outcome are discussed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Chamberlain Kerry Department of Psychology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand aut Zika Sheryl Department of Psychology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand aut Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 26/2(1992-03-01), 101-117 0303-8300 26:2<101 1992 26 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00304394 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00304394 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chamberlain Kerry Department of Psychology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zika Sheryl Department of Psychology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 26/2(1992-03-01), 101-117 0303-8300 26:2<101 1992 26 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer