Well-Being as Fitting Happiness

Abstract

There is an intuitive connection between well-being and happiness. Accordingly, many theories of well-being hold that well-being consists in (either unqualified or properly qualified) happiness. Traditional happiness-based theories are subject, however, to several important objections. The goal in this chapter is to offer a new happiness-based theory that is immune to the main objections raised against traditional happiness-based theories. The authors’ own fitting happiness theory of well-being can be seen as the combination of the following claims. The first is that happiness consists in a broadly positive balance of affective states such as emotions, moods, and sensory pleasures. The second is that emotions, moods, and sensory pleasures are different kinds of perceptual experiences of evaluative properties. The third claim is that, insofar as happiness is constituted by states that have fittingness conditions, it is possible to assess happiness itself as fitting or unfitting. The last claim is that well-being consists in fitting happiness thus defined.

Emotion Regulation Difficulties as a Mediator in Islamic Religious Coping for Problematic Internet Use

“…Previous research showed that the effectiveness of behavior in religious coping can help a person manage individual feelings of distress and anxiety because it can overcome guilt, adhere to God's will or destiny, view suffering in a positive light, and help control individual fear (Chatard et al 2020;Rosmarin & Leidl 2020;Vishkin & Tamir 2020). Rossi and Rossi (2017) reported that religious coping correlated negatively with emotion regulation difficulties, especially regarding lack of emotional clarity, inability to accept negative emotions, and difficulty regulating emotions in general (Rossi & Rossi 2017). From the Islamic perspective, Islamic religious coping indicates an individual's connection with God and dependence on God for everything in life as coping for reducing anxiety and depression and restoring hope (Achour et al, 2017).…”