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CANADIAN PSYCHOLOGY-PSYCHOLOGIE CANADIENNE
Volume 58, Issue 2, Pages 87-104Publisher
CANADIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/cap0000063
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subjective well-being; happiness; organizational behavior; clinical psychology; culture
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Recent decades have seen rapid growth in the science of subjective well-being (SWB), with 14,000 publications a year now broaching the topic. The insights of this growing scholarly literature can be helpful to psychologists working both in research and applied areas. The authors describe 5 sets of recent findings on SWB: (a) the multidimensionality of SWB; (b) circumstances that influence long-term SWB; (c) cultural differences in SWB; (d) the beneficial effects of SWB on health and social relationships; and (e) interventions to increase SWB. In addition, they outline the implications of these findings for the helping professions, organizational psychology, and for researchers. Finally, they describe current developments in national accounts of well-being, which capture the quality of life in societies beyond economic indicators and point toward policies that can enhance societal well-being.
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