The role of passion in sustainable psychological well-being

By Robert J. Vallerand. 2012

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Using the Dualistic Model of Passion (DMP), the purpose of the present paper is to show the role of passion for activities in sustainable psychological well-being. Passion is defined as a strong inclination toward a self-defining activity that people like (or even love), find important, and in which they invest time and energy on a regular basis. The model proposes the existence of two types of passion: harmonious and obsessive. Harmonious passion originates from an autonomous internalization of the activity into one's identity while obsessive passion emanates from a controlled internalization and comes to control the person. Through the experience of positive emotions during activity engagement that takes place on a regular and repeated basis, it is posited that harmonious passion contributes to sustained psychological well-being while preventing the experience of negative affect, psychological conflict, and ill-being. Obsessive passion is not expected to produce such positive effects and may even facilitate negative affect, conflict with other life activities, and psychological ill-being. Research supporting the proposed effects and processes is presented and directions for future research are proposed.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Entrepreneurship, Self-Organization, and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Dynamic Approach (2021, background): “…being effects are particularly likely to arise from conscious and serious deliberation over an entrepreneurial pursuit when motivated by a sense of calling (Bloom et al., 2020; Bunderson & Thompson, 2009) or passion (Cardon et al., 2009; Vallerand, 2012), rather than by necessity or desperation.”
• Entrepreneurs’ Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review and Research Agenda (2018, background): “, 2009), especially for harmonious passion on eudaimonic well-being (Vallerand, 2012).”
• Music practice and participation for psychological well-being: A review of how music influences positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment (2015, background): “Indeed, in “The Role of Passion in Sustainable Psychological Well-Being,” Vallerand (2012) makes the important point that during engagement in an activity that takes place on a regular and repeated basis, one begins to cultivate positive emotions and “passion [that] contributes to sustained…”