BASELINE HAPPINESS AND ASSOCIATED MENTAL PROCESSES
In addition to differences between individuals in their judgment processes in a particular episode, and despite the occurrence of some changes across time, people are likely to carry with them different continuing baselines of happiness. Consistency across time and between different locations has often been shown. For example, Diener and Larsen (1984) reported that people’s average levels of affect in work and leisure situations were intercorrelated at+0.74 for positive and negative indicators respectively. Combining findings about employees” overall and facet-specific job satisfaction, Dormann and Zapf (2001) reported from previous studies an average uncorrected test-retest correlation of +0.42 across a range of intervals.