The Pleasant Life, the Engaged Life, and the Meaningful Life: What about the Balanced Life?

By M. Joseph Sirgy, Jiyun Wu. 2009

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Subfields: Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Positive psychotherapy: A strength-based approach (2015, background): “…elements is neither exhaustive nor exclusive, but it has been shown that fulfillment in these elements and is associated with lower rates of depression and higher life satisfaction (Bertisch, Rath, Long, Ashman, & Rashid, 2014; Headey, Schupp, Tucci, & Wagner, 2010; Lamont, 2011; Sirgy & Wu, 2009).”
A closer look into the materialism construct: the antecedents and consequences of materialism and its three facets (2015, background): “A possible explanation for this result is that materialistic people who hoard material wealth and regard acquisition as an important part of their lives may feel successful and happy with their material life (Sirgy and Wu, 2009).”
How Does a Travel Trip Affect Tourists’ Life Satisfaction? (2011, background): “In contrast, the reduction of negative affect is more experienced in relation to lower (than higher)-order needs such as biological, economic, and health and safety needs (cf. Diener and Emmons 1984; Sirgy and Wu 2009).”
Work-Life Balance: an Integrative Review (2017, unknown): “34–36; Sirgy 2012; Sirgy and Lee 2015; Sirgy and Wu 2009).”
Integrating the hedonic and eudaimonic perspectives to more comprehensively understand wellbeing and pathways to wellbeing (2012, background): “Perhaps the ‚balanced life‛ may be a more appropriate label (as was recently theoretically argued (see Sirgy & Wu, 2009)); however, further research is necessary to establish whether this is the case.”
Towards happiness: Experiences of work-role fit, meaningfulness and work engagement of industrial/organisational psychologists in South Africa (2010, background): “The concept has been the subject of much scrutiny and debate in recent years (Peterson, Park, Hall & Seligman, 2009; Seligman, 2002; Sirgy & Wu, 2009).”
Relational and Identity Perspectives on Healthy Versus Unhealthy Pursuit of Callings (2012, background): “As a result, high expectations can negatively affect one’s relationships with coworkers (Sirgy & Wu, 2009).”
Is Materialism All That Bad? Effects on Satisfaction with Material Life, Life Satisfaction, and Economic Motivation (2013, background): “…because materialistic people allocate much of their time, energy, and resources to the pursuit of material gains, which may come at the expense of gains in other important life domains such as social life, family life, leisure life, and spiritual life (Kasser and Ryan 1993; Sirgy and Wu 2009).”
University students’ strong experiences of music (2011, background): “However, there is also evidence that all three components of happiness are required in order to achieve a state of subjective wellbeing and authentic happiness (Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2005) and that a balance between them is required (Sirgy & Wu, 2009), as illustrated in Figure 1.”
Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction (2012, background): “People generally prefer to have a ‘‘balanced life,’’ that is, when several important needs are satisfied and there is no major deficiency in any area (Diener, Ng, & Tov, 2008; Sirgy & Wu, 2009).”
Music practice and participation for psychological well-being: A review of how music influences positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment (2015, background): “…to meaning (see also DeNora, 2000; Frith, 1996; Hays, 2005; Hays & Minichiello, 2005; Karlsen & Brandstrom, 2008; Lamont, 2011; Packer & Ballantyne, 2011; Sirgy & Wu, 2011), there are good grounds for maintaining that engaging with music can positively contribute to psychological well-being.”
Do hotel employees really care for corporate social responsibility (CSR): a happiness approach to employee innovativeness (2021, background): “This study extends CSR and happiness literature by identifying that employees perceived CSR could be used to satisfy employees’ basic and growth needs as identified by Sirgy and Wu (2009).”