Novak Lukas, Kiknadze Nona
Flourishing Lab, Department of Counseling Psychology, School of Education and Human Development, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States.
Front Psychol. 2024 Aug 7;15:1425415. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1425415. eCollection 2024.
Flourishing refers to one kind of generalized wellbeing. Contemporary flourishing research often privileges positive emotion in the theorization and measurement of the construct, such that flourishing is frequently conceptualized as involving a predominance of positive over negative emotions. Positive emotions are thus, on some views of flourishing, seen as an essential component of "the good life." This paper explores the nuanced variations in conceptions of the good life, focusing on the interplay between positive emotion and flourishing. Through an analysis of contemporary perspectives on flourishing, we underscore the diversity in conceptualizations of flourishing and the implications of this diversity for flourishing theorists. Our review reveals significant disparities in perspectives regarding the significance of positive emotion in the pursuit of a good life. Furthermore, we delineate the theoretical distinctions between objective-list approaches and functional approaches to flourishing, highlighting their respective advantages and limitations. Theoretical dissensus persists regarding whether positive emotion is a necessary constituent of the good life, thus prompting a critical examination of the justification for its inclusion in flourishing models. Finally, we emphasize the need for greater theoretical clarity in defining wellbeing to inform both research endeavors and societal discourse. We suggest that an adequate appreciation of variation in the development and maintenance of flourishing requires admitting for more complex relationships between the construct and both positive and negative emotionality, while embracing the cultural and individual variety that are unavoidable in accurate models of human life.
蓬勃发展指的是一种广义的幸福状态。当代关于蓬勃发展的研究在该概念的理论化和测量中常常重视积极情绪，以至于蓬勃发展常常被概念化为积极情绪多于消极情绪。因此，从某些关于蓬勃发展的观点来看，积极情绪被视为“美好生活”的一个基本组成部分。本文探讨了美好生活概念中的细微差别，重点关注积极情绪与蓬勃发展之间的相互作用。通过对当代关于蓬勃发展观点的分析，我们强调了蓬勃发展概念化的多样性以及这种多样性对蓬勃发展理论家的影响。我们的综述揭示了在关于积极情绪在追求美好生活中的重要性的观点上存在重大差异。此外，我们阐述了蓬勃发展的客观清单方法和功能方法之间的理论区别，突出了它们各自的优点和局限性。关于积极情绪是否是美好生活的必要组成部分，理论上仍存在分歧，因此促使人们对将其纳入蓬勃发展模型的理由进行批判性审视。最后，我们强调在定义幸福时需要有更清晰的理论，以便为研究工作和社会讨论提供信息。我们建议，要充分理解蓬勃发展的发展和维持中的差异，就需要承认该概念与积极和消极情绪之间存在更复杂的关系，同时接受人类生活准确模型中不可避免的文化和个体差异。
