White Mathew P, Dolan Paul
School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, PL4 8AA, Devon, United Kingdom.
Psychol Sci. 2009 Aug;20(8):1000-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02392.x. Epub 2009 Jun 22.
Serious consideration is being given to the impact of private behavior and public policies on people's subjective well-being (SWB). A new approach to measuring well-being, the day reconstruction method (DRM), weights the affective component of daily activities by their duration in order to construct temporal aggregates. However, the DRM neglects the potentially important role of thoughts. By adapting this method to include thoughts as well as feelings, we provide perhaps the most comprehensive measure of SWB to date. We show that some activities relatively low in pleasure (e.g., work and time with children) are nonetheless thought of as rewarding and therefore contribute to overall SWB. Such information may be important to policymakers wishing to promote behaviors that are conducive to a broader conception of SWB.
人们正在认真考虑个人行为和公共政策对人们主观幸福感（SWB）的影响。一种衡量幸福感的新方法——日重建法（DRM），根据日常活动的持续时间对其情感成分进行加权，以构建时间总量。然而，日重建法忽略了思想可能具有的重要作用。通过调整这种方法，使其既包括思想也包括感受，我们提供了迄今为止也许是最全面的主观幸福感衡量方法。我们表明，一些愉悦程度相对较低的活动（例如工作和陪伴孩子的时间）仍然被认为是有意义的，因此有助于整体主观幸福感。这些信息对于希望促进有助于更广泛主观幸福感概念的行为的政策制定者可能很重要。
