Abstract Concepts like flourishing, well-being, health, and happiness are of increasing
interest across many fields, from psychology and medicine to politics and economics …

Well-being studies is an exciting and relatively new multi-disciplinary field, with data being
gathered from different domains in order to improve social policies. In its reliance on a …

Although philosophers and theologians have emphasized the centrality of inner peace for
the good life, this concept has not generally been included in research on human …

Human flourishing, the state of optimal functioning and well-being across all aspects of an
individual's life, has been a topic of philosophical and theological discussion for centuries. In …

Writing this chapter has been an interesting challenge. This is partly because as authors we
are separated by 6000 miles and eight time zones. But mainly it has been a conceptual …

Academic interest in well-being has blossomed, to the point that numerous forms of well-
being have been proposed, covering myriad aspects of the person (eg mental, physical …

Wellbeing is a fundamental human goal—we all have a desire for our life to go well. The
experience of life going well involves both feeling good and functioning well. Feeling good …

Carol D. Ryff and Jennifer Morozink Boylan intRoduction the science of happiness has
grown exponentially in recent years, measured in terms of proliferating theoretical …

This chapter provides a brief introduction to the complex construct of wellbeing, some of the
major societal challenges impacting on it and potential solutions. Wellbeing is a …

Introduction Flourishing is an evolving wellbeing construct and outcome of interest across
the social and biological sciences. Despite some conceptual advancements, there remains …