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Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research 10/2013

01-12-2013 | Review

Understanding our best: eudaimonia’s growing influence in psychology

Auteur: Stephen M. Schueller

Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research | Uitgave 10/2013

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Since the conception of positive psychology over a decade ago, researchers have sought to explore the causes and consequences of optimal functioning. At that time, most positive psychologists adopted a view that the end-goal was to create a life full of frequent experiences of positive emotions, infrequent experiences of negative emotions, and an overall evaluation of one’s life as satisfying. This perspective was influenced by a call to create “a vision of the good life that is empirically sound while being understandable and attractive” [1, p. 5]. Seminal work by Ed Diener [2] and others on the measurement, causes, and consequences of “subjective well-being” were influential to this evolving field. …
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Metagegevens
Titel
Understanding our best: eudaimonia’s growing influence in psychology
Auteur
Stephen M. Schueller
Publicatiedatum
01-12-2013
Uitgeverij
Springer Netherlands
Gepubliceerd in
Quality of Life Research / Uitgave 10/2013
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2649
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-013-0426-5

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