PSYC 3302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Eudaimonia, Life Satisfaction, Psych
22 Apr 2016
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How was the emotional experience of each measured by wirtz et al. Experience: how enjoyable are you / how are you feeling? . Remembering: questionnaire (2=5 days after, 4 weeks after, a few months after) asked for mental average. The remembering self memories of people"s experiences. Subjective well-being (individual perspective and assessment: positive affect. Main (more pleasant than unpleasant on the affect circomplex: negative affect, life satisfaction (personal judgement, typically self-report, but corroborated by other approaches. In most ways my life is close to my ideal. So far i have gotten the important things i want in life. If i could live my life over, i would change almost nothing. But, much less consensus on what eudaimonia is, exactly. Living up to true potential: based on virtue & efforts, includes society"s values. Objective" good life: e. g. , assessed by others at end, skepticism about subjective experience. Some demographic differences, but similar to swb.
