Well-Being & Stress
This type of well-being is used synonymously with happiness.
What is Subjective Well-Being (SWB)?
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What is Hedonic Well-Being?
Concerns about God's punishment or anger directed toward God for past disappointment.
What are divine struggles?
Feeling one's behaviors are self-endorsed.
What is autonomy?
An analogous representation used to illustrate where a person's level of life satisfaction resides on a visual 10 step scale of best to worst possible life.
What is Cantril's Ladder?
Two types of personalities discussed in decision-making correlated by with "never settling for 2nd best" or "believing good enough is acceptable."
What are 'maximizers' or 'satisficers'?
Associated with discreet, often traumatic, events that have a clear onset such as death or an accident.
What are life events?
Consistent with beliefs of being tormented by evil spirits.
What are demonic struggles?
This is associated with the sense that demands are too great given available resources.
What is role strain?
Meyer's name for the inverse ratio of affluence to pathology. (As income and standards of living rise depression and other pathologies soar.)
What is the American Paradox?
Ironically, the more an individual strives for further material gain, the less attention is given to other pursuits more strongly linked to satisfaction.
What is the hedonic treadmill?
Associated with individual vulnerability to stress due to some disorder under certain circumstances.
What is diathesis-stress?
Associated with differences with others about beliefs or resentment toward religion in general.
What are interpersonal struggles?
Expressing one's talents and skills.
What is competence?
The percentage of North Americans claiming to be very happy remained the same or declined slightly as income levels and standard of living rose steadily from the mid 1950s to the late 1990s.
What is Easterlin's Famous Paradox?
A type of collectivism associated with care being taken to avoid causing interpersonal conflict or burdening others.
This type of well-being is associated with personal expressiveness and describes feeling a sense of purpose, growth, and mastery.
What is Eudaemonic Well-Being?
Associated with loss of faith or questioning the existence of God.
Associated with deriving life satisfaction from fulfillment of fundamental needs.
What is Self-Determination Theory?
A phenomenon in which Denmark's poorest citizens were much more satisfied that their low-income peers in the U.S.
What is the "Danish Effect"?
A type of collectivism where direct expression of positive emotions that may be lively and explicit is valued and associated with creating family cohesion.
What is convivial collectivism?
Associated with chronic, problematic situations such as day-to-day care of a sick relative or chronic illness.
What are daily hassles?
Associated with a sense of personal failure or guilt for not attaining to a certain set of standards or expectations.
What are moral struggles?
Opportunities to feel cared for and valued by others.
What is relatedness?
Rise in the family income affects subjective well-being if it increases purchasing power and is accompanied by optimism about future.
What is the 7-year study conducted by Diener, Tay, and Oishi?
Social trust or networks of shared norms, values, and understanding that facilitate cooperation within or among groups.
What is social capital?