Toward a Unifying Theoretical and Practical Perspective on Well-Being and Psychosocial Adjustment.

By Robert W. Lent. 2004

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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Social Cognitive Career Theory and Subjective Well-Being in the Context of Work (2008, background): “Major reviews of well-being research have appeared in the recent counseling psychology literature (e.g., Lent, 2004; Robbins & Kliewer, 2000).”
Psychosocial causes and consequences of pathological gaming (2011, background): “Psychosocial well-being can be defined as a dynamic concept encompassing a wide array of constructs that reflect the quality of intrapersonal and interpersonal functioning (Lent, 2004).”
I Matter to My Friend, Therefore I am Happy: Friendship, Mattering, and Happiness (2011, background): “Happiness is the cognitive and affective evaluations of one’s own life and consists of global life satisfaction, presence of positive affect, and absence of negative affect (Diener 1984, 1994; Lent 2004 ).”
Teachers’ Psychological Characteristics: Do They Matter for Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers’ Well-being, Retention, and Interpersonal Relations? An Integrative Review (2021, background): “…negative affect, and the presence of positive affect (e.g., Diener et al., Educational Psychology Review 1985), or psychological well-being as fulfillment of one’s potential and functioning at an optimal level (e.g., Ryff & Keyes, 1995; see also e.g., Cooke et al., 2016; Lent, 2004 for overviews).”
Retirement Resources Inventory: Construction, factor structure and psychometric properties (2012, background): “Optimismprovides stress resistance (Hobfoll, 2002) and encourages goal setting and goal pursuit (Lent, 2004), and it is therefore hypothesized to be an important cognitive resource in retirement.”
Relation of Social-Cognitive Factors to Academic Satisfaction in Engineering Students (2007, background): “, formation of interests, choice of occupational path) overlap or dovetail with academic behavior (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994), it seems plausible to assume that work and academic satisfaction are subject to similar causal determinants (Lent, 2004).”
On Conceptualizing and Assessing Social Cognitive Constructs in Career Research: A Measurement Guide (2006, background): “For example, in the literature on subjective well-being, predictors and criteria are sometimes so highly saturated with the same affective content that it is difficult to discriminate one from the other (Lent, 2004).”
“Work is my passion”: The different affective, behavioural, and cognitive consequences of harmonious and obsessive passion toward work (2011, background): “…and Houlfort included both positive and negative affect in their measure of psychological adjustment, mental health is more than general emotions (Lent, 2004; Massé, Poulin, Lambert, & Dassa, 1998).2 Mental health at work, more than psychological adjustment, is of particular interest to…”
The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Assessing the Presence of and Search for Meaning in Life (2006, background): “…focused on positive functioning and human strengths, although more energy has been focused on “adapting deficit or pathology-oriented models to the treatment of relatively well-functioning clients than to forging, testing, and applying models of psychological health” (Lent, 2004, p. 483).”
Calling and Vocation at Work (2009, background): “Meaningfulness also has been conceptualized as one of several factors from which happiness arises (Lent, 2004) and is itself a desirable end state, possibly instinctual in nature (Frankl, 1969) and of central existential importance (emmons, 1999).”
Authenticity and well‐being in the workplace: a mediation model (2011, background): “Unfortunately, psychological well-being has been neglected in studies on well-being (Lent, 2004; Keyes et al., 2002; Ryff and Keyes, 1995).”
An Examination of the Role of Attachment and Efficacy in Life Satisfaction (2010, background): “personality and social cognitive factors are related, given that both likely affect life satisfaction (Lent, 2004).”
Resilience, Meaning, and Well-Being (2006, background): “example, Lent (2004) provided a sound and empirically based framework for fostering well-being rooted in both the wellness and the self-efficacy literatures.”