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Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being.
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In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between self-acceptance, positive relations with others, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life, and personal growth, and found that these aspects are not strongly tied to prior assessment indexes.Abstract:
Reigning measures of psychological well-being have little theoretical grounding, despite an extensive literature on the contours of positive functioning. Aspects of well-being derived from this literature (i.e., self-acceptance, positive relations with others, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life, and personal growth) were operationalized. Three hundred and twenty-one men and women, divided among young, middle-aged, and older adults, rated themselves on these measures along with six instruments prominent in earlier studies (i.e., affect balance, life satisfaction, self-esteem, morale, locus of control, depression). Results revealed that positive relations with others, autonomy, purpose in life, and personal growth were not strongly tied to prior assessment indexes, thereby supporting the claim that key aspects of positive functioning have not been represented in the empirical arena. Furthermore, age profiles revealed a more differentiated pattern of well-being than is evident in prior research.read more
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The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Assessing the Presence of and Search for Meaning in Life
TL;DR: The Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) as mentioned in this paper is a 10-item measure of the presence of, and the search for, meaning in life, which was developed to measure the emotional well-being of counseling patients.
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New Well-Being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings.
Ed Diener,Ed Diener,Derrick Wirtz,William Tov,Chu Kim-Prieto,Dong-Won Choi,Shigehiro Oishi,Robert Biswas-Diener +7 more
TL;DR: The Flourishing Scale as mentioned in this paper is a summary measure of the respondent's self-perceived success in important areas such as relationships, self-esteem, purpose, and optimism.
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Personality, Culture, and Subjective Well-Being: Emotional and Cognitive Evaluations of Life
TL;DR: It is challenging to assess SWB across societies, the measures have some degree of cross-cultural validity and nations can be evaluated by their levels of SWB, there are still many open questions in this area.
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Optimizing well-being: the empirical encounter of two traditions.
TL;DR: The probability of optimal well-being (high SWB and PWB) increased as age, education, extraversion, and conscientiousness increased and as neuroticism decreased; adults with higher SWB than PWB were younger, had more education, and showed more openness to experience.
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The Contours of Positive Human Health
Carol D. Ryff,Burton H. Singer +1 more
TL;DR: This article puts forth an explicit operational formulation of positive human health that goes beyond prevailing "absence of illness" criteria and delineates possible physiological substrates of human flourishing and offers future directions for understanding the biology of positive health.
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Subjective Well-Being
TL;DR: The literature on subjective well-being (SWB), including happiness, life satisfaction, and positive affect, is reviewed in three areas: measurement, causal factors, and theory.
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A self-rating depression scale.
TL;DR: The general depression scales used were felt to be insufficient for the purpose of this research project and the more specific scales were also inadequate.
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Subjective Well-being
TL;DR: The literature on subjective well-being (SWB), including happiness, life satisfaction, and positive affect, is reviewed in this article in three areas: measurement, causal factors, and theory.