). These variables include one's state of health, social support and participation, exercise, job satisfaction and satisfaction …Two-way causation issues are the bete noire of life satisfaction research. As acknowledged in several landmark reviews …, many variables routinely reported as causes or determinants of life satisfaction could equally well be consequences, or …

physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British … Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a natural cardinalization of health utility .Our method is a refinement … of the method introduced by Cutler and Richardson (1997). We extend their approach in two directions. First, the health …

person characteristics (including personality traits), life events and measures of well-being (life satisfaction, positive … satisfaction. Using these data, the paper suggests a major revision to the set point or dynamic equilibrium theory of SWB in order … satisfaction are those who score high on the personality traits of extraversion (E) and/or neuroticism (N) and/or openness to …