Which kind of wellbeing are you actually short of?

Carol Ryff · Happiness Is Everything, or Is It? JPSP 57 · 1989

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Wellbeing is modelled as six separable dimensions: self-acceptance, positive relations, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose, and personal growth. The scales are widely used and reasonably reliable. The important consequence is that a single happiness number hides the profile, and two people with the same score can be short of opposite things.

ProbeRate the six dimensions 1-7 from memory. Then pick the lowest and find one concrete fact from the last month that supports or contradicts the rating.

Source: Carol Ryff, Happiness Is Everything, or Is It? JPSP 57 (1989)

Shelf: Meaning

Are the things that make you happy the things that make your life add up?

Which kind of wellbeing are you actually short of?

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