Comment on Diener, Lucas, and Scollon (2006). "Beyond the hedonic treadmill: revising the adaptation theory of well-being".
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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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011788:Quality of Life