Concurrent Assessments of Individuals’ Affect and Contentment and the Correlation of these Estimates to Overall Happiness at Specific Moments

Applied Research in Quality of Life - A rich variety of concepts are used in the field of happiness research. Happiness often overlaps with concepts such as subjective well-being (SWB) and life...     

Early Developmental Trajectories Toward Concepts of Rational Numbers

Difficulties with rational numbers have been explained by a natural number bias, where concepts of natural numbers are inappropriately applied to rational numbers. Overcoming this difficulty may require a radical restructuring of previous knowledge. In order to capture this development, we examined third- to fifth-grade students' understanding of the size of rational numbers across a 1-year period. On three occasions, students answered a test about the size of decimals and fractions. Latent transition analysis allowed profiling five different rational number size concepts and mapping students' developmental trajectories during the early learning of this topic. Development from natural number-based reasoning to mathematically correct understanding was almost nonexistent during this time period. Instead, students appear to move through intermediary concepts. Locating these temporary and mediating number concepts supports the idea of a slow and gradually developing conceptual change in rational numbers.     

Correction to: Flourishing within the Working-Aged Finnish Population

Applied Research in Quality of Life - Figure 1 image of the original version contained a mistake by having two charts with the same data.     

Flourishing within the Working-Aged Finnish Population

Applied Research in Quality of Life - Over the years, sociologists and psychologists have defined different concepts to capture a person’s subjective world, e.g. quality of life, subjective...