The main objective of this research was to test central assumptions from the Self-centeredness/Selflessness Happiness Model. According to this model, while self-centered psychological functioning induces fluctuating happiness, authentic-durable happiness results from selflessness. Distinct mediating processes are supposed to account for these relationships: afflictive affects (e.g., anger, fear...

This paper examines the role that selflessness and perfectionism may play as possible predictors of pathological eating attitudes and eating disorders (ED). 1057 schoolgirls (seventh to ninth grade) participated in the initial screening phase. They were administered the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), Selflessness Scale (SS) and Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS). Based on their EAT-26 ...

Previous studies have demonstrated the existence of a positive relationship between selflessness and happiness. However, none these yet differentiated between—and within—person levels analysis. Moreover, Selflessness/Selfcenteredness Happiness Model (SSHM) suggests that might stabilize In this experience sampling study, we explored relationships happiness—baseline stability—at both within betwe...

Jenny Holzer’s art revolves around outspoken texts that inhabit posters and signs, namelessly disseminated through the city. The ungendered authority voice in her first written pieces, Truisms (1977-1987) Inflammatory Essays (1978-1982), allowed to avoid any associations with femininity as traditionally understood, fuelling passers-by's critical reflection. Later career, parallel efforts establ...