A Positive Psychology Perspective on Quality of Life

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1 A Positive Psychology Perspective on Quality of Life

2 Social Indicators Research Series Volume 51 General Editor: ALEX C. MICHALOS Brandon University, Faculty of Arts Office Brandon, Manitoba Canada Editors: ED DIENER University of Illinois, Champaign, USA WOLFGANG GLATZER J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany TORBJORN MOUM University of Oslo, Norway MIRJAM A.G. SPRANGERS University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands JOACHIM VOGEL Central Bureau of Statistics, Stockholm, Sweden RUUT VEENHOVEN Eramus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands This new series aims to provide a public forum for single treatises and collections of papers on social indicators research that are long to be published in journal Social Indicators Research. Like the journal, the book series deals with statistical assessments of the quality of life from a broad perspective, It welcomes the research on a wide variety of substantive areas, including health, crime, housing, education, family life, leisure activities, transportation, mobility, economics, work, religion and environmental issues. These areas of research will focus on the impact of key issues such as health on the overall quality of life and vice versa. An international review board, consisting of Ruut Veenhoven, Joachim Vogel, Ed Diener, Torbjorn Moum, Airjam A.G. Sprangers and Wolfgang Glantzer, will ensure the high quality of the series as a whole. For further volumes:

3 Anastasia Efklides Despina Moraitou Editors A Positive Psychology Perspective on Quality of Life

4 Editors Anastasia Efklides School of Psychology Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece Despina Moraitou School of Psychology Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece ISSN ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI / Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: # Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (

5 Contents 1 Introduction: Looking at Quality of Life and Well-Being from a Positive Psychology Perspective... 1 Anastasia Efklides and Despina Moraitou Part I Quality of Life, Well-Being, and Positive Psychology 2 Hierarchical Needs, Income Comparisons, and Happiness Levels Stavros A. Drakopoulos 3 Goals and Plans: Their Relationship to Well-Being Andrew MacLeod 4 Living in Accordance with One s Implicit Motives: Cross-Cultural Evidence for Beneficial Effects of Motive-Goal Congruence and Motive Satisfaction Jan Hofer and Holger Busch 5 Positive Psychology and Subjective Well-Being Homeostasis: A Critical Examination of Congruence Robert A. Cummins 6 Life Satisfaction in Adults: The Effect of Religiosity, Worry, and Perceived Physical Health State Maria Platsidou 7 Altruism and Health: Theoretical Perspectives Carolyn E. Schwartz, Brian R. Quaranto, and Kurt Gray 8 Marital Quality and Well-Being: The Role of Gender, Marital Duration, Social Support and Cultural Context Eleni Pateraki and Pagona Roussi v

6 vi Contents Part II Positive Psychology and Human Strengths 9 The Role of Dispositional Optimism in Physical and Mental Well-Being Nathaly Rius-Ottenheim, Roos C. van der Mast, Frans G. Zitman, and Erik J. Giltay 10 The Relation of Optimism to Cardiac Patients Subjective Health Through Illness Representations: Does the Level of Optimism Matter? Evangelos C. Karademas, Elvisa-Foteini Frokkai, Evangelia Tsotra, and Rania Papazachariou 11 Wise Thinking, Hopeful Thinking, and Positive Aging: Reciprocal Relations of Wisdom, Hope, Memory, and Affect in Young, Middle-Aged, and Older Adults Despina Moraitou and Anastasia Efklides 12 Dispositional Hope and Action-State Orientation: Their Role in Self-Regulated Learning Georgia Papantoniou, Despina Moraitou, Magda Dinou, and Effie Katsadima 13 One Ingredient in the Mix: Interest and Psychological Well-Being Mary Ainley 14 From Burnout to Engagement During Transition from School to Work Katariina Salmela-Aro 15 A Comparative Study of Resilience in Greece and Cyprus: The Effects of Negative Life Events, Self-Efficacy, and Social Support on Mental Health Sophie Leontopoulou Index

7 Contributors Mary Ainley Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Holger Busch Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany Robert A. Cummins School of Psychology, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Magda Dinou Department of Early Childhood Education, School of Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece Stavros A. Drakopoulos Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Anastasia Efklides School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Elvisa-Foteini Frokkai Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece Erik J. Giltay Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Kurt Gray Department of Social Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Jan Hofer Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany Evangelos C. Karademas Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece Effie Katsadima Department of Early Childhood Education, School of Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece vii

8 viii Contributors Sophie Leontopoulou Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece Andrew MacLeod Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK Despina Moraitou School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Georgia Papantoniou Department of Early Childhood Education, School of Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece Rania Papazachariou Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece Eleni Pateraki Royal Hospital for Sick Children, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, UK Maria Platsidou Department of Educational and Social Policy, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece Brian R. Quaranto DeltaQuest Foundation, Inc., Concord, MA, USA Nathaly Rius-Ottenheim Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Pagona Roussi Department of Psychology, School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Katariina Salmela-Aro Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Carolyn E. Schwartz DeltaQuest Foundation, Inc., Concord, MA, USA Departments of Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA Evangelia Tsotra Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece Roos C. van der Mast Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Frans G. Zitman Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands