Dept. of Psychology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON.
Can J Aging. 2011 Sep;30(3):467-77. doi: 10.1017/S0714980811000365. Epub 2011 Aug 16.
This article discusses developments in theory and research on happiness two decades after publication of Psychological Well-Being in Later Life (Butterworths, 1991) by Albert Kozma, Michael Stones, and Kevin McNeil. Major empirical advances include new knowledge about contributions to happiness resulting from genetically related effects and personality. Personality traits have stronger relationships with happiness than was apparent 20 years ago and contribute to covariance between happiness and some of its predictors. Evolving emphases in research include the ways in which genetically related effects influence how people shape, and react to, their environment.
本文讨论了自阿尔伯特·科兹马（Albert Kozma）、迈克尔·斯通斯（Michael Stones）和凯文·麦克奈尔（Kevin McNeil）出版《晚年的心理幸福感》（Butterworths，1991 年）以来，有关幸福理论和研究的发展。主要的实证进展包括：由于遗传相关效应和个性而对幸福做出贡献的新知识。个性特征与幸福的关系比 20 年前更为明显，并且对幸福及其某些预测因素之间的协方差做出了贡献。研究中不断发展的重点包括遗传相关效应影响人们塑造和应对环境的方式。
