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What is happiness?
Is it important?
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What is well-being?
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Is it good health?
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Is it utility or welfare (e.g. access to
economic resources, healthcare, family and
community support)?
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Is it a feeling of happiness, satisfaction,
contentment, and fulfillment?
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While we have a good of idea of
what suffering looks like…
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…but what about flourishing?
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Well-being
The UK’s Sustainable Development Strategy
defines well-being as a positive physical, social
and mental state requiring:
basic
needs are met
individuals
they
have a sense of purpose
feel able to achieve important personal
goals and participate in society
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A taxonomy of well-being?
Different types of well-being include:
(1)Basic
needs (necessary prerequisites for human wellbeing; e.g. health, income, education, freedom)
(2)Psychological
needs (autonomy, competence, and
relatedness)
(3)Flourishing
(living the ‘good life’ – being able to reach
your full potential)
(4)Hedonic
(an optimal positive affect balance)
(5)Evaluative
(a subjective appraisal of aspects of life and
how it is going; that is, judgment about feelings)
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Why should I care about
flourishing?
Gallup reported that lost
productivity due to employee
disengagement costs more
than $300 billion .
James Harter and his
colleagues found that
business sales and profits are
predicted by employees’
feelings about the
organization.
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Benefits of Happiness
Social Rewards
Better Health
Better Work Performance
More Creativity
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Learn about your
happiness.
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BeyondThePurchase.Org helps
people understand their own
happiness.Your responses will
also help researchers understand
how happy people think and
behave.
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Discussion Questions
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Were your results on the Satisfaction with
Life Scale what you expected? If not, why
might that be the case?
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Which measure of well-being was your
favorite? Which do you think is most
accurate?
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What activities could you do to improve
your well-being?