title: Subjective well-being, social buffering and hedonic editing in the quotidian.
abstract: A previous study on the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) and hedonic editing-the process of mentally integrating or segregating different events during decision-making-showed that happy individuals preferred the social-buffering strategy more than less happy individuals. The present study examined the relationship between SWB, social-buffering and hedonic outcomes in daily life. In Study 1, we used web-based diaries to measure the frequency with which individuals utilised social and non-social buffers as well as daily levels of happiness. Consistent with the previous finding, happy individuals utilised social buffers more frequently than less happy individuals. Interestingly, the utilisation of social buffers had a positive effect on daily happiness among all participants, regardless of individuals' levels of SWB. In Study 2, we found that although the use of social buffers yielded similar effects across groups on online evaluations of events, happy individuals showed a positive bias in global evaluations of past events. This finding suggests that how one construes and remembers the outcomes of social buffering may shape the different hedonic editing preferences among happy and less happy individuals.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , Korea University , Seoul , Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sunhae
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sul
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology , Seoul National University , Seoul , Republic of Korea.|c Center for Happiness Studies, Seoul National University , Seoul , Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology , Seoul National University , Seoul , Republic of Korea.|c Center for Happiness Studies, Seoul National University , Seoul , Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Incheol
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Choi
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D066106:Seoul; D012919:Social Behavior; D013334:Students
keywords: Decision-making; Happiness; Hedonic editing; Social buffering; Subjective well-being