Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being.
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...Respondents also completed Ryff’s (1989) scales of psychological well-...
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...After reviewing many theories of psychological health, Ryff (1989) conceptualized PWB as having six elements: self-acceptance (positive attitude toward one’s self, life, and past, including good and bad qualities), positive relations with others (warm, satisfying, trusting relationships), autonomy…...
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...We used the 54-item version, which includes 9 items per scale and has good psychometric properties (Ryff, 1989)....
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...…resources, including components of hedonic or subjective well-being (e.g., positive affect, life satisfaction, happiness; Diener, 1984), as well as components of eudaimonic well-being (e.g., self-acceptance, positive relations, autonomy, purpose in life; Ryan & Deci, 2001; Ryff, 1989)....
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...On a more general level, increased interest in the study of psychological well-being follows from the recognition that the field of psychology, since its inception, has devoted much more attention to human unhappiness and suffering than to the causes and consequences of positive functioning (Diener, 1984;Jahoda, 1958)....
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