Well-being is a broad, multifaceted construct. This chapter reviews different ways of defining
and measuring well-being and the implications this has for understanding the correlates and …

Affect inductions have become essential for testing theories of affect and for conducting
experimental research on the effects of mood and emotion. The current review takes stock of …

This brief commentary highlights the faulty reasoning underlying claims that selfcompassion
should not be conceptualized or measured as a unitary construct because compassionate …

Despite the inception of positive psychology more than 20 years ago, the fundamental
question about whether well-being and ill-being are bipolar (opposites of a single …

Objective Can having too much self‐control make people unhappy? Researchers have
increasingly questioned the unilateral goodness of self‐control and proposed that it is …

Many areas of psychological science rely heavily on theoretical constructs, such as
personality traits, attitudes, and emotions, and many of these measured constructs are …

For decades, researchers and practitioners have theorized psychological disorder and
health as opposite ends of a single continuum. We offer a more nuanced, data driven …

Item response theory (IRT) is a modeling approach that links responses to test items with
underlying latent constructs through formalized statistical models. This article focuses on …

Mindfulness is both a non-judgmental and present-centered awareness, which has been
applied to reduce negative emotions. On the other hand, Trait Emotional Intelligence (TEI) is …

For surveys of complex issues that entail multiple steps, multiple reference points, and
nongradient attributes (eg, social inequality), this study proposes a new multiprocess model …