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A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing (Hardcover)
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A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
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The study of 'subjective wellbeing' has seen explosive growth in
recent decades, opening important new discourses in personality and
social psychology, happiness economics, and moral philosophy. Now
it is moving into the policy domain. In this it has arguably
overstepped its limits. The shallow theoretical base of subjective
wellbeing research, the limitations of its measurement instruments,
and its ethical naivety makes policymaking on the basis of its
findings a risky venture. The present volume is an attempt to shore
up these weaknesses and set subjective wellbeing scholarship on a
course for several more decades of growth and maturity. It presents
a theory of subjective wellbeing in two parts. The first is the
subjective wellbeing production function-a model of wellbeing as
outcome. The second is the coalescence of being: a model of the
self-actualisation process by which wellbeing is achieved. This
two-part model integrates not only ideas in SWB studies and
analytical philosophy, but also ideas from clinical, moral, and
developmental psychology, continental philosophy, and welfare
economics. Importantly, this theory is ethically sensitive,
bridging the gap between psychological and philosophical
perspectives on wellbeing that illuminates the complexities facing
the application of subjective wellbeing in public policy. The book
also provides a thorough review of various ways complex theories of
subjective wellbeing can be studied empirically, and the hard trade
offs between long surveys that capture the richness of the concept
and the short surveys that are feasible in the context of social
surveys and policy analysis.
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