Capturing the Moment in the Workplace: Two Methods to Study Momentary Subjective Well-Being

Abstract

Subjective Well-Being (SWB) refers to how a person evaluates his or her life (Diener, Sandvik, & Pavot, 1991). This appraisal may take the form of cognitions – when a person makes a conscious evaluative judgment about his or her satisfaction with (working) life; or take the form of affect, when people experience negative or positive emotions in response to everyday life. In this chapter, we concentrate on the latter form of SWB – momentary affective experiences (Russell, 1980, 2003) in everyday working life, which we also refer to as momentary SWB.

Citation

Oerlemans, W.G.M. and Bakker, A.B. (2013), "Capturing the Moment in the Workplace: Two Methods to Study Momentary Subjective Well-Being", Bakker, A.B. (Ed.) Advances in Positive Organizational Psychology (Advances in Positive Organizational Psychology, Vol. 1), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 329-346. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2046-410X(2013)0000001017