As clinicians delivering health care, we are very good at treating disease but often not as
good at treating the person. The focus of our attention has been on the specific physical …

Meaning in life has long been a mystery of human existence. In this review, we seek to
demystify this construct. Focusing on the subjective experience of meaning in life, we review …

BackgroundAs evidenced by several studies, mental distress increased substantially during
the COVID-19 pandemic. In this period, citizens were asked to exercise a high degree of self …

This chapter provides an overview of two prominent approaches to wellbeing, the hedonic
and the eudaimonic, both with roots traceable to the ancient Greeks. We first examine the …

Research into the relationship between happiness and health is developing rapidly,
exploring the possibility that impaired happiness is not only a consequence of ill-health but …

In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive
emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We …

Background Increasing evidence suggests that psychological well-being (PWB) is
associated with lower disease and mortality risk, and may be enhanced with relatively low …

This article reviews research and interventions that have grown up around a model of
psychological well-being generated more than two decades ago to address neglected …

Researchers in entrepreneurial studies are increasingly interested in the psychological well-
being of entrepreneurs. Approaches to well-being tend to be partitioned into hedonic and …

When people judge their lives as meaningful, what is this judgment about? Drawing on
recent tripartite theoretical accounts of meaning in life (MIL), we tested the separate …