Emotional wellbeing: individuals are able to be part of a community with a sense of…
Chapter 2 investigates the psychology of well-being along with hedonic and eudaimonic happiness. The discussion and CheckPoint this week are related to the basic concepts found in positive psychology.…
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. (WHO, 1946) Karims ideas, beliefs and feelings affected his behaviour which had a negative impact on his health untill he realised that he needed to change his unhealthy lifestyle. Deenas own beliefs and social factors affected the way she chose to take her asthma medication and this initially stopped her following her doctors instructions. Prochaska and Diclementes model of change helps health care practitioners understand the process of change. Counselling is an example of a psychological intervention that can help promote emotional wellbeing.…
References: 1. Positive Psychology, by Steve R. Baumgardner and Marie K. Crothers. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.…
6.2 - By letting the person express themselves about their likes and dislikes, their interests, their choices and supporting them in a way they feel good, clean and tidy, all these will contribute to their overall wellbeing and this will affect if they generally feel happy and good about themselves on a day to day basis.…
Response: That is simple my children are my whole world. Everything they do brings happiness to me.…
- Wellbeing is the condition or state of a human being, animal or plant. There are five types of wellbeing……
For more than 20 years, psychological well-being has been the focus of intense research attention. Psychological well-being dwells within the experience of the individual. Psychologists define psychological well-being as the state of feeling healthy and happy, having satisfaction, relaxation, pleasure, and peace of mind. This principle deals with people’s feelings towards everyday experiences in different life activities.These feelings can range from negative mental states or psychological strains, such as depression, distress, and anxiety, to a state which has been identified as positive mental health.…
Happiness comes from within. Many people could be living in the same environment and facing the same challenges but some seem to be happier than others. No matter what one’s challenges are, it is one’s choice and decisions to live a happy and content life. There has been an unfounded belief that the rich are happier than the poor but research has given contradicting results. I cannot say that I have lived a happy life but after watching the “Happy” documentary, I am now ready to live positively and happily no matter what circumstances I am facing. I have realized that we make ourselves unhappy by complaining about the problems we face in our day-to-day life rather than appreciating the good side of life. We should focus on the positive aspects of life and try as much as we cannot to let the negative aspects of our lives ruin our happiness.…
The current age that the world lives in is known as the “Information Age”; also known as the Computer Age, or the Digital Age. This name derives from the shift to technology usage and its rapid advancements. Today, however, the world turns to technology more than ever. despite technology’s convenience and aid, it can also be destructive to a society. In the essay, “The Future of Happiness”, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s erudite tone and parallelism reflects his assertion that the advancement of technology comes with consequences.…
I think nobody is complety healthy because we are not perfect and it means we will have several illnesses or something inside of your body will not work fine. Also, there are people that make a lot of exercises and they harm themselve. They become it in a obsessed. Nevertheless, there are people that never make no exercise anytime and it is bad for them. On the other hand, I guess my health is good. As well, I try to eat less fat but I am not obsessed with it. Besides, I have not went to the doctor for a longer. So, I think I am fine. For me people is not healthy enough because their job or their responsibilities make them have not time to take care of them. For example, work recently have become in a jail for people. I mean, they even have…
References: Baker, D., & Stauth, C. (2003). What happy people know: How the new science of happiness can change your life for the better .USA: Rodale Inc.…
There are countless benefits associated with the experience of positive emotions. Life is hard, but experiencing positive emotions can become a stress-reducer, open our minds, build enduring resources, and improve our overall well-being. Negative emotions tend to narrow our thoughts to a limited set of possible actions that might be taken in response to an emotion-evoking situation (Baumgardner & Crothers, p41). Positive emotions contribute to enhancing our physical, psychological, and social resources. While negative emotions may compromise our health, positive emotions can enhance our health. Multiple studies have shown how positive emotions broaden our outlook, offset negative emotions, enhance our resilience, and improve our emotional well-being (Baumgardner & Crothers, p42).…
Happiness, the intangible emotion that we all desire. Is there proof that this emotion even exists? Eduardo Porter has written an essay titled “What Happiness Is”. In this essay Mr. Porter took the time to study the emotion of happiness that we all experience in life. He makes an attempt to question not only his reasons as to why he is happy, but to have the reader question their own sense of happiness as well. What is it that makes us feel joyful emotions, and how can vastly different experiences cause us to feel the same emotion that we call happiness? While searching for the proof of this feeling Eduardo Porter reflects upon his own personal experiences, professional studies and ultimately decides that his questions may never be answered. Porter states that, “most psychologists and economists who study happiness agree that what they prefer to call “subjective well-being” comprises three parts: satisfaction, meant to capture how people judge their lives measured up against their aspirations; positive feelings like joy; and the absence of negative feelings like anger.” This is an important analysis of how we form the idea of how joyful we actually are. Something in life that one person might be ashamed of could improve the level of cheerfulness for another person. For example, the thought of getting a tattoo might cause one individual to feel guilt while another individual might feel pleasure at the same thought. Because there is no definitive formula that provides a calculated experience of happiness for everyone, it is interesting to question what actions or lack thereof in our lives cause us to be cheerful or to lose some of the happiness that we have already gained. The organization of this essay was well thought out and effective. The author opens with the statement, “Happiness is a slippery concept, a bundle of meaning with no precise, stable definition.” This opening statement provokes the reader to question their own beliefs in…
What the researchers mean by ‘subjective well-being’ is that it takes a broad view of happiness, beyond the pursuit of short-term of physical pleasures defining a narrow hedonism. It is also define as life satisfaction, the presence of positive affect, and a relative absence of negative affect. ‘Subjective well-being’ is measured by hedonic well-being where it’s proposed that an individual experiences happiness when positive affect and satisfaction with life are both high.…