Well-Being: Psychological Research for Philosophers

By V. Tiberius. 2006

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Well-being in the broadest sense is what we have when we are living lives that are not necessarily morally good, but good for us. In philosophy, well-being has been an important topic of inquiry for millennia. In psychology, well-being as a topic has been gathering steam very recently and this research is now at a stage that warrants the attention of philosophers. The most popular theories of well-being in the two fields are similar enough to suggest the possibility of interdisciplinary collaboration. In this essay I provide an overview of three of the main questions that arise from psychologists’ work on well-being, and highlight areas that invite philosophical input. Those questions center on the nature, measurement, and moral significance of well-being. I also argue that the life-satisfaction theory is particularly well suited to meet the various demands on a theory of well-being.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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• A 32-Year Longitudinal Study of Child and Adolescent Pathways to Well-Being in Adulthood (2013, background): “Other attempts have been more explicitly aligned to eudaimonic theory in that they equate wellbeing with ontological development around values such as honesty, kindness, justice, courage, and generosity (Aristotle, 2004; Tiberius, 2006).”
• Positive Psychology, Happiness, and Virtue: The Troublesome Conceptual Issues (2010, background): “In the history of philosophy, and subsequently psychology, three main types of happiness accounts have competed for ground (see, e.g., Seligman & Royzman, 2003; Tiberius, 2006).”
• Resilience isn't the same for all: Comparing subjective and objective approaches to resilience measurement (2018, background): “Understanding how cognitive biases and priming affect subjective evaluations of resilience is a useful start—drawing on the existing literature on survey methods and applications (Durayappah, 2011; Lavrakas, 2008; Tiberius, 2006).”
• Subjective well-being (2010, background): “1 For overviews of subjective measures of well-being, see e.g. Angner (2008, 2009a,b), Campbell (1976), Diener (2001), Diener et al. (2005), Diener and Seligman (2004), Kahneman et al. (2004), and Tiberius (2006). cators inspired by the capability approach (Kesebir & Diener, 2008).”