Personal Satisfaction

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Before and after" diet advertisements escalate weight stigma. 
  • "His" and "Hers": Meeting the Economic Bar to Marriage. 
  • A Multi-Institution Collaboration to Define Core Content and Design Flexible Curricular Components for a Foundational Medical School Course: Implications for National Curriculum Reform. 
  • A recovery-oriented money management intervention. 
  • A sense of calling and primary care physicians' satisfaction in treating smoking, alcoholism, and obesity. 
  • A theoretical model of the holistic health of United Methodist clergy. 
  • Accuracy of 30-day recall for components of sexual function and the moderating effects of gender and mood. 
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences and Symptoms of Urologic Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain Research Network Study. 
  • Age and impaired subjective support. Predictors of depressive symptoms at one-year follow-up. 
  • Age as a moderator of the determinants of life satisfaction. 
  • Apolipoprotein E polymorphism, life stress and self-reported health among older adults. 
  • Applying self-determination theory to the blood donation context: The blood donor competence, autonomy, and relatedness enhancement (Blood Donor CARE) trial. 
  • Are subjective well-being measures any better than decision utility measures? 
  • Assessment of quality of life in outpatients with advanced cancer: the accuracy of clinician estimations and the relevance of spiritual well-being--a Hoosier Oncology Group Study. 
  • Auto-Gerontology: A Personal Odyssey. 
  • Big two personality and big three mate preferences: similarity attracts, but country-level mate preferences crucially matter. 
  • Blockade of smoking satisfaction using the peripheral nicotinic antagonist trimethaphan. 
  • Body image and body satisfaction differ by race in overweight postpartum mothers. 
  • Body image assessment for obesity (BIA-O): development of a new procedure. 
  • Changes in perceived uselessness and risks for mortality: evidence from a National sample of older adults in China. 
  • Childhood sexual trauma and subsequent parenting beliefs and behaviors. 
  • Close relationships and self-regulation: How relationship satisfaction facilitates momentary goal pursuit. 
  • Clustering of health, crime and social-welfare inequality in 4 million citizens from two nations. 
  • Comparing preferences for outcomes of psoriasis treatments among patients and dermatologists in the U.K.: results from a discrete-choice experiment. 
  • Compensatory rationalizations and the resolution of everyday undeserved outcomes. 
  • Consequences of retirement. 
  • Construct validity of the PROMIS® sexual function and satisfaction measures in patients with cancer. 
  • Contributory behaviors and life satisfaction among Chinese older adults: Exploring variations by gender and living arrangements. 
  • Couples and breast cancer: women's mood and partners' marital satisfaction predicting support perception. 
  • Daily well-being of cancer survivors: the role of somatic amplification. 
  • Delineating Among Parenting Confidence, Parenting Self-Efficacy, and Competence. 
  • Development and Initial Validation of the PROMIS(®) Sexual Function and Satisfaction Measures Version 2.0. 
  • Development of a vision-targeted health-related quality of life item measure. 
  • Differential relation of psychological functioning with the history and experience of weight cycling. 
  • Digital chalk-talk videos improve knowledge and satisfaction in renal physiology. 
  • Disability and sunshine: can hedonic predictions be improved by drawing attention to focusing illusions or emotional adaptation? 
  • Disturbing Trends in Physician Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Balance: Dealing With Malady Among the Nation's Healers. 
  • Does marital agony precede marital ecstasy? A comment on Gottman and Krokoff's "Marital interaction and satisfaction: a longitudinal view". 
  • Economic pressure, cultural adaptation stress, and marital quality among Mexican-origin couples. 
  • Effect of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery on the sex steroids and quality of life in obese men. 
  • Effectiveness of medical resident education in mechanical ventilation. 
  • Effects of epilepsy surgery on quality of life: a controlled study in a Middle Eastern population. 
  • Effects of physical and mental health on relationship satisfaction: a dyadic, longitudinal examination of couples facing prostate cancer. 
  • Emotional expression and body dissatisfaction. 
  • Environmental and dispositional influences on well-being: longitudinal follow-up of an American national sample. 
  • Existential relatedness in light of eudemonic well-being and religious coping among middle-aged and older cardiac patients. 
  • Factors associated with consumption of alcohol in older adults - a comparison between two cultures, China and Norway: the CLHLS and the HUNT-study. 
  • Factors associated with primary care residents' satisfaction with their training. 
  • Family caregiver satisfaction with inpatient rehabilitation care. 
  • Family weight talk and dieting: how much do they matter for body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors in adolescent girls? 
  • Fathers' support to mothers of medically fragile infants. 
  • Feasibility and acceptability of a resilience training program for intensive care unit nurses. 
  • Feasibility of a dyadic intervention for management of osteoarthritis: a pilot study with older patients and their spousal caregivers. 
  • Five-factor model personality traits and the retirement transition: longitudinal and cross-sectional associations. 
  • Five-year trajectories of social networks and social support in older adults with major depression. 
  • Functional status and self-rated health in 2,262 nonagenarians: the Danish 1905 Cohort Survey. 
  • Generalized "satisfaction of search": adverse influences on dual-target search accuracy. 
  • Health and subjective well-being: a replicated secondary data analysis. 
  • Hostility, social support, and adrenergic receptor responsiveness among African-American and white men and women. 
  • How do I judge my outcome when I do not know the outcome of others? The psychology of the fair process effect. 
  • How do you feel about...? Health outcomes in late life and self-perceptions of health and well-being. 
  • Illness uncertainty, partner support, and quality of life: A dyadic longitudinal investigation of couples facing prostate cancer. 
  • Impact of Gender on Satisfaction and Confidence in Cholesterol Control Among Veterans at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease. 
  • Impact of caring for grandchildren on the health of grandparents in Taiwan. 
  • Impact of early intervention on psychopathology, crime, and well-being at age 25. 
  • Improvement in quality of life with left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with pharmacoresistant major depression: acute and six month outcomes. 
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Can Adversely Impact Domains of Sexual Function Such as Satisfaction with Sex Life. 
  • Influence of extraversion and neuroticism on subjective well-being: happy and unhappy people. 
  • Integrating Telepresence Robots Into Nursing Simulation. 
  • Intensity of grandparent caregiving and life satisfaction among rural Chinese older adults: a longitudinal study using latent difference score analysis. 
  • Learning and Socializing Preferences in Hong Kong Chinese Children. 
  • Life goals, satisfaction, and self-rated health: preliminary findings. 
  • Life satisfaction and preterm birth among urban black women: findings from the Baltimore preterm birth study. 
  • Life satisfaction and student engagement in adolescents. 
  • Life satisfaction in old age: linking social psychology and history. 
  • Longitudinal analyses of psychological well-being in a national sample: stability of mean levels. 
  • Machine wanting. 
  • Management of Type 1 Diabetes With a Very Low-Carbohydrate Diet. 
  • Marital Processes Linking Gender Role Attitudes and Marital Satisfaction Among Mexican-Origin Couples: Application of an Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediation Model. 
  • Marital status, marital satisfaction, and body image dissatisfaction 
  • Maternal education preferences moderate the effects of mandatory employment and education programs on child positive and problem behaviors. 
  • Maternal role attainment with medically fragile infants: Part 1. measurement and correlates during the first year of life. 
  • Maternal satisfaction with administering infant interventions in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Maternal socialization goals, parenting styles, and social-emotional adjustment among Chinese and European American young adults: testing a mediation model. 
  • Measuring social inclusion--a key outcome in global mental health. 
  • Mecamylamine increases nicotine preference and attenuates nicotine discrimination. 
  • Modifiable disease risk, readiness to change, and psychosocial functioning improve with integrative medicine immersion model. 
  • Monitoring population health for Healthy People 2020: evaluation of the NIH PROMIS® Global Health, CDC Healthy Days, and satisfaction with life instruments. 
  • Neighborhood Social Cohesion, Resilience, and Psychological Well-Being Among Chinese Older Adults in Hawai'i. 
  • Neighborhood effects on the long-term well-being of low-income adults. 
  • Outcome and life satisfaction of adults with myelomeningocele. 
  • Oxytocin and vulnerable romantic relationships. 
  • PTSD diagnoses, subsyndromal symptoms, and comorbidities contribute to impairments for breast cancer survivors. 
  • Parent and family associations with weight-related behaviors and cognitions among overweight adolescents. 
  • Partner-assisted emotional disclosure for patients with gastrointestinal cancer: results from a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Persistent Depressive Symptoms in a Population With High Levels of Occupational Stress: Trajectories Offer Insights Into Both Chronicity and Resilience. 
  • Personality strengths in romantic relationships: Measuring perceptions of benefits and costs and their impact on personal and relational well-being. 
  • Physician Satisfaction With Clinical Laboratory Services: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes Study of 81 Institutions. 
  • Physician Satisfaction in Treating Medically Unexplained Symptoms. 
  • Physician attire in the intensive care unit in Japan influences visitors' perception of care. 
  • Physician coaching to enhance well-being: a qualitative analysis of a pilot intervention. 
  • Physician communication with family caregivers of long-term care residents at the end of life. 
  • Physicians' experience and satisfaction with chaplains: a national survey. 
  • Playing with pets and longevity among older people. 
  • Practice patterns, satisfaction, and demographics of reproductive endocrinologists: results of the 2014 Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Workforce Survey. 
  • Predicting Inpatient Dissatisfaction Following Total Joint Arthroplasty: An Analysis of 3,593 Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey Responses. 
  • Predicting negative mood state and personal growth in African American and White long-term breast cancer survivors. 
  • Predictors of partial remission in older patients treated for major depression: the role of comorbid dysthymia. 
  • Predictors of the longevity difference: a 25-year follow-up. 
  • Project on the Good Physician: Further Evidence for the Validity of a Moral Intuitionist Model of Virtuous Caring. 
  • Psychological inflexibility and symptom expression in anorexia nervosa. 
  • Psychometric Evaluation of PROMIS Sexual Function and Satisfaction Measures in a Longitudinal Population-Based Cohort of Men With Localized Prostate Cancer. 
  • Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors and Incident Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Community Dwelling Elderly: Findings from the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Study. 
  • Psychosocial predictors of life satisfaction among persons living with HIV infection and AIDS. 
  • Psychosocial training and cardiac rehabilitation. 
  • Reintegration of child soldiers in Burundi: a tracer study. 
  • Relations of meaning in life and sense of coherence to distress in cancer patients: a meta-analysis. 
  • Relationship of weight, body dissatisfaction, and self-esteem in african american and white female dieters 
  • Relationships between body satisfaction and psychological functioning and weight-related cognitions and behaviors in overweight adolescents. 
  • Religion, Purpose in Life, Social Support, and Psychological Distress in Chinese University Students. 
  • Residency is not a race: our ten-year experience with a flexible schedule residency training option. 
  • Respecting cultural values of toddler weight perception while discouraging parental overfeeding. 
  • Response to varying the nicotine content of cigarettes in vulnerable populations: an initial experimental examination of acute effects. 
  • Revisiting Successful Aging With HIV Through a Revised Biopsychosocial Model: An Update of the Literature. 
  • Satisfaction With Life, Coping, and Spirituality Among Urban Families. 
  • Satisfaction with social networks: an examination of socioemotional selectivity theory across cohorts. 
  • Self-discrepancies and vulnerability to body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. 
  • Self-discrepancies as predictors of vulnerability to distinct syndromes of chronic emotional distress. 
  • Self-efficacy for coping with symptoms moderates the relationship between physical symptoms and well-being in breast cancer survivors taking adjuvant endocrine therapy. 
  • Sex differences in the relationship of body fat distribution with psychosocial variables 
  • Sexual Dysfunction and Reproductive Concerns in Young Men Diagnosed With Testicular Cancer: An Observational Study. 
  • Sexual Satisfaction and the Importance of Sexual Health to Quality of Life Throughout the Life Course of U.S. Adults. 
  • Sexual dysfunction and reproductive concerns in young women with breast cancer: Type, prevalence, and predictors of problems. 
  • Sexual function and satisfaction among heterosexual and sexual minority U.S. adults: A cross-sectional survey. 
  • Sexual functioning and obesity: a review. 
  • Sexual functioning of men and women with severe obesity before bariatric surgery. 
  • Smoking and Physical Activity Explain the Increased Mortality Risk Following Marital Separation and Divorce: Evidence From the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. 
  • Spinal muscular atrophy type 1 quality of life. 
  • Spirituality and psychological well-being: testing a theory of family interdependence among family caregivers and their elders. 
  • Stress buffering effects of daily spousal support on women's daily emotional and physical experiences in the context of breast cancer concerns. 
  • Student Evaluations of Teaching: There Is More to Course Evaluations Than Student Ratings. 
  • Student satisfaction and self report of CPR competency: HeartCode BLS courses, instructor-led CPR courses, and monthly voice advisory manikin practice for CPR skill maintenance. 
  • Suicidal behavior in adolescents: relationship to weight status, weight control behaviors, and body dissatisfaction. 
  • Suicide attempt in young people: a signal for long-term health care and social needs. 
  • Teaching Clinical Ophthalmology: Medical Student Feedback on Team Case-Based Versus Lecture Format. 
  • Teen CHAT: Development and utilization of a web-based intervention to improve physician communication with adolescents about healthy weight. 
  • The Effects of a Couples-Based Health Behavior Intervention During Pregnancy on Latino Couples' Dyadic Satisfaction Postpartum. 
  • The Impact of Parental Death on Child Well-being: Evidence From the Indian Ocean Tsunami 
  • The Treatment of Metabolic Acidosis: An Interactive Case-Based Learning Activity. 
  • The Veterans Affairs Learners' Perceptions Survey: the foundation for educational quality improvement. 
  • The association of emotional well-being and marital status with treatment adherence among patients with hypertension. 
  • The happiness syndrome: methodological and substantive issues in the study of social-psychological well-being in adulthood. 
  • The health status and life satisfaction of first-year medical students. 
  • The motivational looking glass: how significant others implicitly affect goal appraisals. 
  • The patient centered medical home. A systematic review. 
  • The types of caregiving reactions experienced by the older spouse caregivers. 
  • Three-year change in the wellbeing of orphaned and separated children in institutional and family-based care settings in five low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Toward a national consensus: teaching radiobiology to radiation oncology residents. 
  • Typologies of religiousness/spirituality: implications for health and well-being. 
  • Well-being in Australia--findings from the National Survey of Mental Health and Well-being. 
  • What Factors Drive Inpatient Satisfaction After Knee Arthroplasty? 
  • What motivates residents to teach? The Attitudes in Clinical Teaching study. 
  • Why Danes are smug: comparative study of life satisfaction in the European Union. 
  • Why are you calling me? How study introductions change response patterns. 
  • Women in very low quality marriages gain life satisfaction following divorce. 
  • Women of the 1950s and the "normative" life course: the implications of childlessness, fertility timing, and marital status for psychological well-being in late midlife. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bradford, Daniel William, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Social and Community Psychiatry
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society