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Skiing and thinking about it: Moment-to-moment and retrospective analysis of emotions in an extreme sport
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-20)
Happiness is typically reported as an important reason for participating in challenging
activities like extreme sport. While in the middle of the activity, however, participants
do not seem particularly happy. So where does the happiness come from? The
article proposes some answers from a study of facially expressed emotions measured
moment-by-moment during a backcountry skiing event. Self-reported ...
Striving for wellbeing: The different roles of hedonia and eudaimonia in goal pursuit and goal achievement
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-09)
Goals are central to theories of happiness and previous research has shown that successful goal pursuit typically leads to a boost in wellbeing. Taking these ideas further, the current study adopts the distinction between hedonic wellbeing (HWB) and eudaimonic wellbeing (EWB) and suggests that it is the former that increases when goals are achieved. By contrast, EWB is hypothesized to have a causal ...
When Life Happens: Investigating Short and Long-Term Effects of Life Stressors on Life Satisfaction in a Large Sample of Norwegian Mothers
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-25)
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of major life stressors on the short and long-term life satisfaction (LS) of Norwegian mothers using data from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort study (MoBa, N = 46,342). Data on LS were collected at T1 (6 months postpartum) and T3 (36 months postpartum), and data on life stressors at T2 (18 months postpartum) and T3. Altogether, 24,216 ...