Beliefs about Attainment of Life Satisfaction as Determinants of Preferences for Everyday Activities

Abstract

(from the chapter) assumption has been made that life satisfactiondepends on the attainment of psychological values such as . . . feelingsof security, freedom, and accomplishment / related question investigatedin the present study is whether the type of everyday activities inwhich people engage, and which are related to their patterns of consumption,are seen as means by which such psychological values are attainedquestionnaire was distributed to a heterogeneous group of 112 subjectswho first rated how important for life satisfaction they believedtheir performance of a sample of everyday activities and the attainmentof a number of psychological values to be, then indicated for eachactivity whether or not it facilitated (or hindered) the attainmentof each value (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rightsreserved)