Willroth Emily C
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO USA.
Affect Sci. 2022 Oct 7;4(1):41-44. doi: 10.1007/s42761-022-00152-3. eCollection 2023 Mar.
Centuries of philosophical debate and decades of empirical research have sought to characterize what it means to be psychologically well. A unifying conceptual framework to organize these diverse perspectives is needed to facilitate clear communication and cumulative science within the field of well-being science. Although a handful of overarching theoretical and measurement models of well-being have been proposed, they typically make strong claims about which constructs should be included or excluded as well as the manner and degree to which well-being constructs are related to one another. Thus, these models are often not widely adopted as organizational or communicative tools, due to their exclusion of particular theoretical perspectives or disagreement among researchers about the empirical structure of well-being. While the field continues to grapple with these issues, it would benefit from a unifying conceptual framework that is broad in scope and that can flexibly accommodate diverse theoretical perspectives and new empirical advances. In this paper, I discuss the benefits of a unifying conceptual framework for well-being, as well as the challenges in its construction. Specifically, I review strengths and limitations of Park et al.'s proposed framework of "emotional well-being," and suggest an alternative framework of "psychosocial well-being" that encompasses the diverse array of constructs that have been proposed as positive psychological aspects of well-being.
几个世纪的哲学辩论和数十年的实证研究一直试图界定心理幸福感的内涵。需要一个统一的概念框架来组织这些不同的观点,以促进幸福感科学领域内清晰的交流和累积性科学研究。尽管已经提出了一些总体的幸福感理论和测量模型,但它们通常对哪些构念应被纳入或排除,以及幸福感构念之间相互关联的方式和程度提出了强有力的主张。因此,由于这些模型排除了特定的理论观点,或者研究人员对幸福感的实证结构存在分歧,它们往往没有被广泛用作组织或交流工具。虽然该领域仍在努力解决这些问题,但它将受益于一个范围广泛、能够灵活容纳不同理论观点和新实证进展的统一概念框架。在本文中,我讨论了统一的幸福感概念框架的益处及其构建中的挑战。具体而言,我回顾了帕克等人提出的“情绪幸福感”框架的优缺点,并提出了一个“心理社会幸福感”的替代框架,该框架涵盖了作为幸福感积极心理方面而被提出的各种构念。
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