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Michael A. Busseri

Michael A. Busseri

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Psychology

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37
Citations
5689
World Ranking
9203
National Ranking
625

Overview

Michael A. Busseri is a researcher affiliated with Brock University in Canada, specializing in the field of psychology. Their work primarily focuses on areas within experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, applied psychology, clinical psychology, and health.

Their research prominently addresses topics related to psychological well-being and life satisfaction, psychological and temporal perspectives, optimism, hope, and well-being, health disparities and outcomes, mental health research topics, behavioral health and interventions, and aspects of anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

Busseri's recent papers include:

  • The happy personality revisited: Re-examining associations between Big Five personality traits and subjective well-being using meta-analytic structural equation modeling, 2023, Journal of Personality
  • The structure of everyday happiness is best captured by a latent subjective well-being factor, 2021, Journal of Research in Personality
  • Happy Days: Resolving the Structure of Daily Subjective Well-Being, Between and Within Individuals, 2022, Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • The global belief that "life gets better and better": National differences in recollected past, present, and anticipated future life satisfaction around the world, across time, and in relation to societal functioning., 2022, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • The full life revisited: Examining hedonia and eudaimonia as general orientations, motives for activities, and experiences of wellbeing, 2020, International Journal of Wellbeing

Frequent publication venues for Busseri's research include:

  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • Journal of Personality
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • International Journal of Wellbeing

Collaborative work is an aspect of Busseri's research, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Emily M. Erb
  • Andrew Chung
  • Karen M. Arnell
  • Caitlin E. V. Mahy
  • Jordi Quoidbach

Busseri's body of work integrates theoretical models and empirical research methods to explore subjective well-being and personality traits. This includes meta-analytic structural equation modeling as well as investigations into day-to-day happiness and life satisfaction across different populations and temporal frames.

Best Publications

  • A Review of the Tripartite Structure of Subjective Well-Being: Implications for Conceptualization, Operationalization, Analysis, and Synthesis

    Michael A Busseri;Stan W Sadava

  • Interchangeability of the Working Alliance Inventory and Working Alliance Inventory, Short Form.

    Michael A. Busseri;John D. Tyler

  • Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact

    Gordon Hodson;Michael A. Busseri

  • A longitudinal examination of breadth and intensity of youth activity involvement and successful development.

    Michael A Busseri;Linda Rose-Krasnor;Teena Willoughby;Heather Chalmers

  • Breadth and Intensity of Youth Activity Involvement as Contexts for Positive Development

    Linda Rose-Krasnor;Michael A. Busseri;Teena Willoughby;Heather Chalmers

  • Examining the structure of subjective well-being through meta-analysis of the associations among positive affect, negative affect, and life satisfaction

    Michael A. Busseri

  • Where Is the Syndrome? Examining Co-Occurrence Among Multiple Problem Behaviors in Adolescence.

    Teena Willoughby;Heather Chalmers;Michael A. Busseri

  • Self-Objectification, Self-Esteem, and Gender: Testing a Moderated Mediation Model

    Becky L. Choma;Becky L. Choma;Beth A. Visser;Julie A. Pozzebon;Anthony F. Bogaert

  • Assessing the Role of Body Image Coping Strategies as Mediators or Moderators of the Links Between Self-Objectification, Body Shame, and Well-Being

    Becky L. Choma;Becky L. Choma;Claire Shove;Michael A. Busseri;Stanley W. Sadava

  • Decomposing the relation between Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) and reading ability.

    Karen M. Arnell;Marc F. Joanisse;Raymond M. Klein;Michael A. Busseri

  • A HYBRID MODEL FOR RESEARCH ON SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING: EXAMINING COMMON- AND COMPONENT-SPECIFIC SOURCES OF VARIANCE IN LIFE SATISFACTION, POSITIVE AFFECT, AND NEGATIVE AFFECT

    Michael A. Busseri;Stanley W. Sadava;Nancy Decourville

  • Stability and change in adolescent spirituality/religiosity: a person-centered approach.

    Marie Good;Teena Willoughby;Michael A. Busseri

  • Toward a Resolution of the Tripartite Structure of Subjective Well-Being.

    Michael A. Busseri

  • Same-sex attraction and successful adolescent development

    Michael A. Busseri;Teena Willoughby;Heather Chalmers;Anthony R. Bogaert

  • On the association between sexual attraction and adolescent risk behavior involvement: Examining mediation and moderation.

    Michael A. Busseri;Teena Willoughby;Heather Chalmers;Anthony F. Bogaert

  • Improving teamwork: the effect of self-assessment on construction design teams

    Michael A Busseri;Jason M Palmer

  • Breadth and Intensity: Salient, Separable, and Developmentally Significant Dimensions of Structured Youth Activity Involvement.

    Michael A. Busseri;Linda Rose-Krasnor

  • Locus of Control for Consumer Outcomes: Predicting Consumer Behavior1

    Michael A. Busseri;Herbert M. Lefcourt;Robert R. Kerton

  • Functional or Fantasy? Examining the Implications of Subjective Temporal Perspective “Trajectories” for Life Satisfaction

    Michael A. Busseri;Becky L. Choma;Stan W. Sadava

  • “As good as it gets” or “The best is yet to come”? How optimists and pessimists view their past, present, and anticipated future life satisfaction

    Michael A. Busseri;Becky L. Choma;Becky L. Choma;Stan W. Sadava

Frequent Co-Authors

Becky L. Choma
Becky L. Choma Toronto Metropolitan University
Linda Rose-Krasnor
Linda Rose-Krasnor Brock University
Teena Willoughby
Teena Willoughby Brock University
Gordon Hodson
Gordon Hodson Brock University
Karen M. Arnell
Karen M. Arnell Brock University
Cheryl M. McCormick
Cheryl M. McCormick Brock University
Anthony F. Bogaert
Anthony F. Bogaert Brock University
Mark R. Beauchamp
Mark R. Beauchamp University of British Columbia
Philip M. Wilson
Philip M. Wilson Brock University
Raymond M. Klein
Raymond M. Klein Dalhousie University

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