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Comment
. 2007 Sep;62(6):611-2.
doi: 10.1037/0003-066X62.6.611.

Comment on Diener, Lucas, and Scollon (2006). "Beyond the hedonic treadmill: revising the adaptation theory of well-being"

David T Lykken
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Comment on Diener, Lucas, and Scollon (2006). "Beyond the hedonic treadmill: revising the adaptation theory of well-being"

David T Lykken. Am Psychol. 2007 Sep.

Abstract

Comments on the article by E. Diener, R. E. Lucas, and C. N. Scollon which cited a study by Tellegen et al. in which the Well-Being scale of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), administered to 44 pairs of monozygotic reared-apart (MZA) twins, yielded a within-pair correlation of .48. I contend that, in their subsequent proposed changes to subjective well-being (SWB) theory, Diener et al. failed to incorporate the implications of this heritability.

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