PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jeremy Bentham, Epicurus, Life Satisfaction
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Can come from different things - individual and cultural differences. Includes health of relationships, satisfaction, with self, goal achievement. Lots of agreement on what each is, much less on how the two relate to one another. Some argue that people can have high levels of well-being and low levels of happiness (and vice versa), but others argue that happiness and well-being are positively correlated. Well-being - optimal psychological functioning and experience. Leads to so many different definitions we have in the field, some researchers focus more on functioning and others focus more on experience. Both very old and very current ideas. Hedonic well-being - pleasure of mind and body ( feeling good ) Eudaimonic well-being - the actualisation of human potentials ( feeling right ) Mapping onto the functioning aspect of well-being (e. g. , flourishing and. Mapping onto the experience aspect of well-being (e. g. , happiness) personal goals) Identifying, cultivating, and loving in accordance with one"s virtues and true nature.
