New preprint with @EmorieBeck !! We argue that well-being science needs more person-specific approaches to re-center the person in the study of well-being. Such person-specific conceptualizations are core to many foundational well-being theories. 1/5.

Now out in JPSP!.

Now out in Personality Science! Happy travels!.

RT @PsyArXiv_bot_v2: Idiographic Momentary Profiles of Personality Facets

RT @Bernd_Schaefer_: I am very excited to announce that my first first-author publication was accepted at JPSP: Tha….

RT @dulcewestberg: 🚨 Recruiting PhD Students 🚨.I am currently seeking motivated graduate students to join me in the Psych Dept at UC Davis….

Overall, our findings are in line with the hedonic treadmill. Little to no long-term change in life satisfaction from taking holidays, BUT we see short-term boosts in life satisfaction in years when people vacation more. So take this as your sign to take that extra holiday! 4/4.

Among travelers, we found that where people went (abroad vs domestic) was unrelated to annual life satisfaction levels. We did, however, find that more frequent travel was associated with greater life satisfaction that same year! 3/4.

Surprisingly, we found little evidence that any type of travel resulted in long-term change. Sole domestic travelers experienced no change while international travelers and non-travelers experience similar but modest decreases in life satisfaction over time 2/4

Also! New manuscript with @mrlenhausen @WiebkeBleidorn @HopwoodChris on life satisfaction and leisure travel! We compared the life satisfaction levels and trajectories of international and sole domestic travelers as well as people who did not travel over 8 years in LISS 1/4.

Come see some early findings from one of our new studies on sexual and gender minority experiences! Part of the bridging nomothetic and idiographic approaches to well-being chaired by @JulianScharbert !!.

RT @EmorieBeck: For those attending #ecp21, some great talks and posters coming out of my research group! @winkie_ma @anotherpianosan @adam….

RT @AldoBarrita: 🚨New publication🚨. Intersectional Minority Stress Model for BIPOC LGBTQ+🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾 . We explore proximal/distal stressors….

We conclude with an agenda for an idiographic future for well-being, pointing to how recent methodological advancements can help well-being researchers answer classic questions with idiographic approaches! 5/5. (And yes, title inspired by Brandy and Monica of course).

Lastly, idiographic approaches are a pathway of integration: We can capture the dynamic meaning-making of well-being that can explain how well-being unfolds similarly and differently across people and intraindividual changes across one’s lifetime. 4/5.

Second, these approaches complement constructivist theories of well-being that give insight into how a person makes meaning of what is (and is not) relevant to their well-being units. Capturing these meaning-making processes is critical to considering a person's well-being. 3/5.

First, idiographic approaches correspond to dynamic systems approaches that capture how well-being unfolds over space and time for a single person. Properties of the system can be used as individual difference measures to explain between-person differences in well-being. 2/5.

Overall, this study was largely exploratory with few findings. But some exciting things emerged and could point to new ways in leveraging both nomothetic and idiographic approaches to understanding personality change! 7/7.

Last thing we found was that the edge valence (the sign of node strength) led to some flipped patterns in the effects of node strength centrality (absolute value of importance). This may give some insight of how excitatory or inhibitory processes are important to trait change 6/n

Interestingly more significant effects were seen in informant data. So maybe people who know us may have insight into how our own unique processes relate to change? (Greater NMI= network structure is more reflective of Big5; Greater strength centrality= more node influence) 5/n