Social Well-Being

Keyes, Corey L. M.

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“…There are other ways of construing the ultimate criterial goods in life (see, e.g., Becker, 1992;Coan, 1977;Keyes, 1998). In this sense, the present encounter of two traditions heralds possibly new encounters with diverse cultural and ethnic varieties of well-being.…”

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Optimizing well-being: The empirical encounter of two traditions.

Keyes¹,

Shmotkin²,

Ryff³

2002

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Subjective well-being (SWB) is evaluation of life in terms of satisfaction and balance between positive and negative affect; psychological well-being (PWB) entails perception of engagement with existential challenges of life. The authors hypothesized that these research streams are conceptually related but empirically distinct and that combinations of them relate differentially to sociodemographics and personality. Data are from a national sample of 3,032 Americans aged 25-74. Factor analyses confirmed the related-but-distinct status of SWB and PWB. The probability of optimal well-being (high SWB and PWB) increased as age, education, extraversion, and conscientiousness increased and as neuroticism decreased. Compared with adults with higher SWB than PWB, adults with higher PWB than SWB were younger, had more education, and showed more openness to experience.Research on well-being has flourished in recent decades (Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999; Kahneman, Diener, & Schwarz, 1999), with increasing recognition of the different streams of inquiry guiding this broad domain. Ryan and Deci's (2001) integrative review organized the field of well-being into two broad traditions: one dealing with happiness (hedonic well-being), and one dealing with human potential (eudaimonic well-being; Ryan & Deci, 2001; see also Waterman, 1993). In the present study, we draw and extend these distinctions, which we refer to as traditions of research on subjective well-being (SWB) and psychological well-being (PWB). We use these terms to underscore the fact that studies of SWB have repeatedly included not only affective indicators of happiness (hedonic well-being) but also cognitive assessments of life satisfaction. In addition, some aspects of PWB (e.g., personal growth, purpose in life) but not others (e.g., positive relations with others, self-acceptance) reflect the self-fulfillment meanings of eudaimonic well-being. As described below, SWB and PWB are also the overarching phrases most frequently used in studies that constitute these traditions, both of which are fundamentally concerned with subjective accounts of well-being.Our specific empirical aims are to examine whether indicators of SWB and PWB constitute taxonomically distinct reflections of well-being in a national sample of U.S. adults. Although both approaches assess well-being, they address different features of what it means to be well: SWB involves more global evaluations of affect and life quality, whereas PWB examines perceived thriving vis-à-vis the existential challenges of life (e.g., pursuing meaningful goals, growing and developing as a person, establishing quality ties to others). We further test the hypothesis that these distinct varieties of well-being are contoured by the broad categories of sociodemographic and personality factors. Specifically, we investigate the role of location in the life course (i.e., age) and position in the socioeconomic hierarchy (e.g., educational status) as well as personality traits in accounting for different profiles of well-...

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confidence: 99%

Optimizing well-being: The empirical encounter of two traditions.

Keyes¹,

Shmotkin²,

Ryff³

2002

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

2,360

1,426

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“…As discussed above, this spillover may involve the transmission of negative emotions, stress, energy depletion, and interpersonal unavailability. Social incoherence, the opposite of social coherence as defined by Keyes (1998), extends beyond the local community to incorporate appraisals that society is not discernable, sensible, and predictable. Such perceptions and lack of grounding may operate as a stressor that influences work-to-family conflict.…”

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Implications of Work and Community Demands and Resources for Work-to-Family Conflict and Facilitation.

Voydanoff¹

2004

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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Based on a differential salience approach, this article examines the combined effects of work and community demands and resources on work-to-family conflict and facilitation. The study uses information from 2,507 employed respondents from the 1995 National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States. The findings indicate that work demands are relatively strongly related to work-to-family conflict, whereas work resources are relatively more important in relation to work-to-family facilitation. Social incoherence and friend demands are positively related to work-to-family conflict, whereas sense of community and support from friends have positive effects on facilitation. Community resources also show weak amplifying effects on some of the positive relationships between work resources and work-to-family facilitation. The findings provide modest support for the hypotheses.

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“…Social well-being, therefore, encompasses the experience and judgment of one’s own social functioning and stands as a distinct component from emotional and psychological well-being. Keyes (1998, 2002) proposed five dimensions of social well-being: social contribution, social integration, social actualization, social acceptance, and social coherence. The joint work of Keyes and Ryff led to a combined definition of well-being incorporating: (1) emotional well-being (positive emotions and life satisfaction), (2) psychological well-being (consisting of Ryff's (1989) six dimensions), and (3) social well-being (consisting of Keyes’s five dimensions).…”

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Promoting well-being through group drumming with mental health service users and their carers

Ascenso

Perkins

Atkins

et al. 2018

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Purpose: Music has been linked with well-being across clinical and community settings. Yet, research has focused on assessment of single dimensions of well-being and on the typical receiver of support services. Acknowledging the burden that a caring role encompasses and integrating recent proposals for a multifaceted definition of well-being, we explore the extent to which group drumming interventions translate into multidimensional well-being change for both mental health service users and carers. Method: Thirty-nine participants engaged in one of a series of community drumming programmes were assessed via semi-structured interviews (n = 11) and focus groups (n = 28) at the end of each programme. Data were analysed using IPA. Results and Conclusion: Emotional, psychological and social dimensions of well-being emerged for both patients and carers, accounted for through six themes: (1) hedonia: positive affect and pleasant physical effects of drumming; (2) agency: initiative and sense of control; (3) accomplishment: non-specific and in relation to musical goals; (4) engagement, through focus and flow; (5) a redefinition of self, through self-awareness, construction of a positive identity, self-prospection and incorporation of a musical identity; and (6) social well-being, through connectedness and positive relationships. The potential of such interventions for clinical contexts is discussed.

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Social Well-Being

Cited by 2,155 publications

References 19 publications

Optimizing well-being: The empirical encounter of two traditions.

Optimizing well-being: The empirical encounter of two traditions.

Implications of Work and Community Demands and Resources for Work-to-Family Conflict and Facilitation.

Promoting well-being through group drumming with mental health service users and their carers

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