Questions tagged [well-being]
Questions regarding the quality of life of individuals (or societies) and how it can be effectively measured or quantified.
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Is psychological well-being positively influenced by physiological well-being (and vice versa)?
Is psychological well-being positively influenced by physiological well-being (and vice versa) ?
And conversely is psychological well-being positively impacted by physiological suffering (and vice ...
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What activities trigger the realtionship between Flow state and Contemplative / Wellbeing practices?
I wanted to know experimental cases and studies where there are activities which make possible the Flow state, and how is it related to Happiness and Wellbeing.
Quoting the 2021 study "The ...
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How many hugs a day should we give to obtain optimal positive effects?
According to Wikipedia, hugging has health benefits. It stimulates the increase of oxytocin and reduces blood pressure. I have also heard varying advices about the number of hugs per day that you need;...
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Types of Research for comparing two Groups [closed]
i am planning to do an empirical research for my Thesis, which is about the influence of exercise on the psychological and subjective well-being of individuals (60-90 years of age).
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What is the difference between reminiscence and nostalgia?
Both reminiscence and nostalgia refer to thinking about the past, but where is the line between them?
I am looking into how reminiscence affects meaning in life and have found that most research ...
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Do people typically go through 'stages' when experiencing remorse, similar to grief?
It's well known, at least in pop psychology, that grief comes in a number of stages.
Whether that's accurate or not, I'm interested in finding out if there's a similar phenomenon with remorse?
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Why do some individuals enjoy watching scary videos?
Does watching scary videos affect mental health?
Are some individuals more/less prone to feeling scared than others?
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Should Quality of Life-scales (QoL) be included when measuring subjective well-being (SWB)?
I am trying to figure out how subjective well-being is operationalized in relation to a systematic review.
Some authors seems to include CES-D scales when reviewing well-being, categorizing it as "...
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What can one do to permanently increase one's baseline happiness (subjective well-being)?
According to the hedonic treadmill theory of subjective well-being each human has a hedonic set point. Positive or negative life events cause relatively short-term deviations to one's happiness before ...
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Definition of dominance (self-assessment manikin)
I'm using the self-assessment manikin to measure valence, arousal and dominance. Valence and arousal is clear to all participants but with the concept of dominance a lot of participants are struggling....
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when is default mode active
AFAIK default mode is important for our well being since as I am concerned one of its functions is to make sense of things we learned, experienced, etc.
Here is says default mode is active when ...
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Talking about emotional experience
In a book 59 seconds (section "Creating the perfect diary"), Richard Wiseman cited Zech & Rimé (2005) - I had impression that he suggests that according to that study talking about ...
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What does "affect component" mean in this article on well-being?
Previous research lends support to the view that the negative affect component of well-being is strongly associated with neuroticism and that positive affect component has a similar association with ...
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Is there any negative social or psychological implication of the current “slime” preoccupation of teenagers (mostly girls)? [closed]
This may not be the right place for this question. If you think it belongs on another forum, please point me there.
My daughter has been into the “slime” craze for the past two years or so (she is ...
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Is there a validated questionnaire on consumer well-being?
I am conducting a study comparing different cigarettes in terms of their relative toxicity. As a side analysis, I wish to see if a novel cigarette, purportedly less toxic, is similarly pleasurable.
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