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Beyond Life Satisfaction:A Scientific Approach to Well‐Being Gives Us Much More to Measure

José L. Duarte

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Measures of subjective well-being (SWB) do not tap into all of the important aspects of well-being. This chapter introduces a scientific well-being framework, and shows how positive psychology practitioners can extend beyond SWB using five approaches. These approaches include: assessing patterns of domain-specific outcomes; measuring behavior directly; physiological experience sampling; measuring meaning-in-life; and assessing the well-being of the participants' close others.

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Measures of subjective well-being (SWB) do not tap into all of the important aspects of well-being. This chapter introduces a scientific well-being framework, and shows how positive psychology practitioners can extend beyond SWB using five approaches. These approaches include: assessing patterns of domain-specific outcomes; measuring behavior directly; physiological experience sampling; measuring meaning-in-life; and assessing the well-being of the participants' close others.

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Measures of subjective well-being (SWB) do not tap into all of the important aspects of well-being. This chapter introduces a scientific well-being framework, and shows how positive psychology practitioners can extend beyond SWB using five approaches. These approaches include: assessing patterns of domain-specific outcomes; measuring behavior directly; physiological experience sampling; measuring meaning-in-life; and assessing the well-being of the participants' close others.

Key concepts: Well-being, Subjective well-being, Life satisfaction, Meaning (existential), Psychology, Experience sampling method, Measure (data warehouse), Positive psychology

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