Measuring Lay Conceptions of Well-Being: The Beliefs About Well-Being Scale

By Ethan A. McMahan, D. Estes. 2011

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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The effect of contact with natural environments on positive and negative affect: A meta-analysis (2015, background): “Importantly, well-being is a complex construct, including both hedonic and eudaimonic components (McMahan & Estes, 2011; Ryan & Deci, 2001), and additional research should address whether contact with nature positively impacts other facets of well-being.”
Travel and Subjective Well-Being: A Focus on Findings, Methods and Future Research Needs (2013, background): “They constructed the Beliefs about Well-Being Scale (BWBS) to measure different aspects of well-being along four theoretically meaningful dimensions: the experience of pleasure; the avoidance of negative experience; self-development; and contribution to others.”
Well-being and Mobility: A Theoretical Framework and Literature Review Focusing on Older People (2014, background): “And various measurement scales have been proposed that capture aspects of both happiness and eudaimonic psychological well-being (Diener et al. 2010; McMahan and Estes 2011).”
Hedonic Versus Eudaimonic Conceptions of Well-being: Evidence of Differential Associations With Self-reported Well-being (2011, methodology): “Conceptions of well-being were measured using the BWBS (McMahan and Estes 2010), a 16-item instrument that asks participants to rate the degree to which (1) the Experience of Pleasure (e.g., ‘Experiencing euphoria and pleasure’), (2) Avoidance of Negative Experience (e.g., ‘A lack of painful…”
Lay Understanding of Happiness and the Experience of Well-Being: Are Some Conceptions of Happiness More Beneficial than Others? (2016, background): “Lay conceptions of happiness congruent with the eudaimonic approach include elements such as achievement, growth and competency (McMahan and Estes 2010a), all of which may be associated with the occupational realm.”
The five-dimensional curiosity scale: Capturing the bandwidth of curiosity and identifying four unique subgroups of curious people (2018, unknown): “Participants completed the Beliefs about Well-Being Scale (McMahan & Estes, 2011).”