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Does subjective well-being show a relationship between parents and their children?

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posted on 2008-06-01, 00:00 authored by F Casas, G Coenders, Robert CumminsRobert Cummins, M Gonzalez, C Figuer, S Malo
The relationship between the subjective well-being of parents and their own 12–16-year-old children was explored in a Spanish sample of N = 266 families. A positive relationship was expected due to both a shared environment and the possibility of the genetic transmission of subjective well-being ‘set-points’. A positive significant relationship was found for the summated scale of satisfaction domains forming the Personal Well-being Index, and for the specific domains of health and security for the future. However, no relationship was found for the other five domains that make up this Index or for satisfaction with life as a whole. We conclude while these results provide some evidence for the expected influence of a shared environment, they have failed to provide evidence for high heritability of set-points for subjective well-being.

History

Journal

Journal of happiness studies : an interdisciplinary forum on subjective well-being

Volume

9

Issue

2

Pagination

197 - 205

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ISSN

1389-4978

eISSN

1573-7780

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2007, Springer Science+Business Media B.V.