PSYCH 3BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Attachment Theory, Sibling Relationship, Married People
25 Feb 2014
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In psychological and physiological traditions, in both the east and the west - happiness is the ultimate goal of life (the definition of what it means to lead a good life) Defining happiness: two different traditions in defining what happiness is, the hedonic tradition, dominant in the west, aristippus: not just sensual pleasure. Pleasure involved using up sexual and aggressive energy happiness was. Took a strictly pleasure providing view of what: most modern research in this tradition, happiness, or subjective well-being (swb, the eudaimonic tradition, aristotle: life of moral, intellectual virtue. About wisdom, understanding, gaining knowledge: happiness as satisfaction, contentment, being involved with life that enriches those around you, rogers, maslow. Interested in well-being of individual - use objective measures (income, health status, strength of relationships) people how happy they are, etc. of their emotions = swb. Individuals self-report of quality of life and nature. Positive affects (pa) and negative affects (na: pa - positive affect.
