Flourish : a new understanding of happiness and well-being - and how to achieve them

By Martin E. P. Seligman. 2011

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Measuring objective and subjective well-being: dimensions and data sources (2020, background): “terms appearing more frequently could be interpreted as an increased and liberating focus on individual opportunity (d1) [333] or could demonstrate neoliberal ideology (d5) [334].”
The Varieties of Self-Transcendent Experience (2017, background): “Self-transcendent positive emotions, flow, and awe are promoted as avenues to increased well-being (Fredrickson, 2009; Keltner, 2009; Seligman, 2011).”
The scales of general well-being (SGWB) (2017, background): “Symptoms of good mental health are assumed to be worth experiencing for their own sake (Seligman, 2011).”
Measuring children and young people’s wellbeing in the school context (2015, background): “Seligman’s thinking, for instance, has evolved from his earlier ideas about authentic happiness and he has now put forward the PERMA (P: positive emotions, E: engagement, R: relationships, M: meaning, A: accomplishments) model of flourishing as a conceptualisation of wellbeing (Seligman 2011).”
The challenge of defining wellbeing (2012, background): “Research in wellbeing has been growing in recent decades (e.g., Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999; Kahneman, Diener, & Schwarz, 1999; Keyes, Schmotkin, & Ryff, 2002; Stratham & Chase, 2010; Seligman, 2011).”
Association Between Social Networks and Subjective Well-Being in Adolescents: A Systematic Review (2020, background): “Related to life satisfaction is the concept of happiness which Seligman (2011) illustrates by explaining happiness as a thing which can be measured by life satisfaction, just like temperature is a thing that can be measured by a thermometer.”
Measuring well-being: A comparison of subjective well-being and PERMA (2018, methodology): “As Forgeard, Jayawickreme, Kern, and Seligman (2011) note, ‘Just as we do not have a single indicator telling us how our car is performing (instead, we have an odometer, a speedometer, a gas gauge, etc.), we suggest that we do not want just one indicator of how well people are doing’ (Forgeard et…”