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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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Reconceptualizing the work-family interface: an ecological perspective on the correlates of positive and negative spillover between work and family.
TL;DR: Ecological theory was used to develop a more expanded conceptualization of the work- family interface and to identify significant correlates of multiple dimensions of work-family spillover.
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Relationships between mindfulness practice and levels of mindfulness, medical and psychological symptoms and well-being in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program
James Carmody,Ruth A. Baer +1 more
TL;DR: Increases in mindfulness were found to mediate the relationships between formal mindfulness practice and improvements in psychological functioning, suggesting that the practice of mindfulness meditation leads to increases in mindfulness, which in turn leads to symptom reduction and improved well-being.
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Psychological Well-Being in Adult Life
TL;DR: This article defined mental health as the presence of the positive, and defined the features of well-being as "the ability of a person to be well in spite of suffering from anxiety, depression, or other forms of psychological disorder".
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Psychological well-being revisited: advances in the science and practice of eudaimonia.
TL;DR: Research and interventions that have grown up around a model of psychological well-being generated more than two decades ago to address neglected aspects of positive functioning such as purposeful engagement in life, realization of personal talents and capacities, and enlightened self-knowledge are reviewed.
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Hedonia, eudaimonia, and well-being: an introduction
Edward L. Deci,Richard M. Ryan +1 more
TL;DR: In the eudaimonic tradition, the focus is on living life in a full and deeply satisfying way as mentioned in this paper, while the hedonistic tradition is on happiness, defined as the presence of positive affect and the absence of negative affect.
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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.