SOCPSY 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jeremy Bentham, Life Satisfaction, Motivation
25 Sep 2018
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How do definitions vary across cultures: key domains of well-being relationships/social networking, leisure, work, and physical health, group differences in well-being. Inequalities based on gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, class, migrant status. Eudaimonic approach: emphasizes meaning, well being comes from seeking meaning , self-realization , functioning at highest capacity. Well-being is more than just the absence of misery: going beyond the baseline. 1. genetic theories: 30-40% of variance in swb is owing to genetics, your swb is not fixed. If it is changeable then we can find ways to change swb: discern genetic component with twin studies, when monozygotic (identical) twins are raised apart they are more similar in. 2. personality theories: genes -> extraversion and neuroticism -> swb. 3. set point/adaptation theories: genetically determined set-point or baseline swb, will adapt to this set point in face of life events, hedonic treadmill. 2: negative events, spinal cord injury -> drop in swb immediately after the accident, but.
