CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Protective Factor, Negentropy, European Social Survey
Document Summary
New thought & positive thinking: hobbsian reality - humans are selfish, life is short and brutish", work ethic aids a happy life", promotion of agency responsibility for our own happiness. Peal1950"s = improving life & health positive thought (causes a better life) Humanistic/neo-freudian psychology (e. g. , maslow, rogers, jung, adler & horney: focus on positive human nature, self-actualizing tendency, strive towards fulfilment, meaning, inner peace & happiness. Subjective happiness: hedonic component of well-being, cognitive component (life satisfaction) Discrepancy between current & ideal state (veenhoven, 1991: affect (moods & emotional responses) Swb= life satisfaction + high positive affect + low negative affect. Several established scales for swb: panas(watson et al. , 1988, swls(diener et al, 1985, subjective happiness scale (e. g. , lyubomirsky& lepper, 1999, interview studies, physiological markers, large scale studies. Job, careeror callingorientation (e. g. diener & biswas-diener, 2008) Health -three factor evaluation (e. g. diener & biswas-diener, 2008) Likelihood of serious illness, ii) life after onset & iii) lifespan.
