Ed Diener (1946-2021)

Memorializes Ed Diener (1946-2021). Although academic articles on wellbeing are now commonplace, this has not always been the case. Ed Diener helped to establish this growing and important topic of research. Ed published the article entitled "Subjective Well-Being" in 1984, launching subje...

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Published in:The American psychologist 2022-02, Vol.77 (2), p.304-305
Main Authors: Biswas-Diener, Robert, Oishi, Shige
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Graduate students
Happiness
Human
Humans
Life Satisfaction
Male
Psychology
Rating Scales
Research Personnel
Scientific Communication
Students
Well Being
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Summary:Memorializes Ed Diener (1946-2021). Although academic articles on wellbeing are now commonplace, this has not always been the case. Ed Diener helped to establish this growing and important topic of research. Ed published the article entitled "Subjective Well-Being" in 1984, launching subjective well-being (SWB) research. The following year, Ed and his students published the Satisfaction With Life Scale, one of the most widely used measures of well-being and a paper that has been cited more than 30,000 times. His impact on psychology lives on in the journals he helped found, the and , as well as with his many collaborators, graduate students, and postdocs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
ISSN:0003-066X
1935-990X
DOI:10.1037/amp0000900