In case you are into org. psychology I suggest you to read Barsade and Gibson (2007) "Why Does Affect Matter in Organizations?", which distinguishes between several concepts related to affect.

Hi Lisandra,

Have a look at those different papers : 

Diener E (1984) Subjective well-being. Psychol Bull 95:542–575. 

Kahneman D, Krueger AB, Schkade DA, Schwarz N, Stone AA (2004) A survey method for characterizing daily life experience: The day reconstruction method. Science 306:1776–1780.

Kahneman D, Riis J (2005) in The Science Of Well-Being, eds Huppert FA, Baylis N, Keverne B (Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford), pp 285–304. 

Graham C (2010) Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires (Oxford University Press, New York). 

All the best, 

Laurence

Hello Lisandra

These varied papers discuss emotional well-being from different perspectives, but do not necessarily include an explicit definition.

See publication by Lisa Bridges - ResearchGate member:

Bridges, L. J., Margie, N. G., & Zaff, J. F. (2001). Background for community-level work on emotional well-being in adolescence: Reviewing the literature on contributing factors. ERIC Clearinghouse.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239794897_Background_for_Community-Level_Work_on_Emotional_Well-being_in_Adolescence_Reviewing_the_Literature_on_Contributing_Factors 

In particular, see p.4: "Disorders, or other mental health conditions. Definitions of the Components of Emotional Well-Being"

Another member of ResearchGate - Ömer Faruk Şimşek - has written a paper that might be relevant to your search:

Şimşek, Ö. F. (2011). An intentional model of emotional well-being: The development and initial validation of a measure of subjective well-being. Journal of Happiness Studies, 12(3), 421-442.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227591711_An_Intentional_Model_of_Emotional_Well-Being_The_Development_and_Initial_Validation_of_a_Measure_of_Subjective_Well-Being

Also see publications by Sanne M A Lamers:

Lamers, S., Westerhof, G. J., Bohlmeijer, E. T., ten Klooster, P. M., & Keyes, C. L. (2011). Evaluating the psychometric properties of the mental health continuum‐short form (MHC‐SF). Journal of Clinical Psychology, 67(1), 99-110.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47535795_Evaluating_the_psychometric_properties_of_the_Mental_Health_Continuum-Short_Form_%28MHC-SF%29

You might wish to request another paper - the abstract is available on ResearchGate:

Westerhof, G. J., Lamers, S. M., & de Vries, D. R. (2010). Effects of recollecting autobiographical memories on the emotional well-being of older adults. Tijdschrift voor gerontologie en geriatrie, 41(1), 5.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/42540147_Effects_of_recollecting_autobiographical_memories_on_the_emotional_well-being_of_older_adults

Likewise, another member, Sarah Stewart-Brown has written in this field:

Stewart-Brown, S. (1998). Emotional wellbeing and its relation to health: Physical disease may well result from emotional distress. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 317(7173), 1608.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13438659_Emotional_wellbeing_and_its_relation_to_health._Physical_disease_may_well_result_from_emotional_distress

Best wishes

Mary

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Hi Lisandra,

Corey Keyes frequently discusses emotional well-being in his work: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=rWtJNsUAAAAJ&hl=en

Colin

Hi Lisandra,

Interesting question. In my work around chronic condition and particular diabetes there is quite a lot of work has been done around emotional wellbeing. Some of work of interest may be:

FISHER, P. 2008. Wellbeing and empowerment: the importance of recognition. Sociology of Health & Illness, 30, 583-598.

POUWER, F., SNOEK, F. J., VAN DER PLOEG, H. M., ADÈR, H. J. & HEINE, R. J. 2001. Monitoring of Psychological Well-Being in Outpatients With Diabetes. Diabetes Care, 24, 1929-1935.

RASMUSSEN, B., DUNNING, T., HENDRIECKX, C., BOTTI, M. & SPEIGHT, J. 2013. Transition to motherhood in type 1 diabetes: design of the pregnancy and postnatal well-being in transition questionnaires. BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth, 13, 1-11.

happy reading,

Bodil

One of the first articles about well being was "The

Structure of Psychological Well-Being, de Norman Bradburn (1969)"

http://www.norc.org/PDFs/publications/BradburnN_Struc_Psych_Well_Being.pdf

It's a good article to begin an history about emotional well being

And a gossip: the original title of the article was: The Structure of "Happiness"... but on the 60th happiness was not a "cientific" issue...

Hi Felipe,

Thank you for alerting us to this reference. It looks very interesting and I look forward to reading some of this historical material.

Cheers,

Bodil

Please let me know if the following references/sites are helpful to you:

1.  Well-Being Concepts | HRQOL | CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/hrqol/wellbeing.htm

Well-Being Concepts. ... There is no consensus around a single definition of well-being, ... Emotional well-being. Psychological well-being.

FAQs · Concept · About Us · Surveillance

2.  Emotional Wellbeing - BeLonGTo.org

www.belongto.org/resource.aspx?contentid=4574

Emotional wellbeing is not the absence of emotions, but it is your ability to understand the value of your emotions and use them to move your life forward in positive ...

3.  Mental and Emotional Well-being - surgeongeneral.gov

www.surgeongeneral.gov/.../strategy/mental-emotional-well-being.pdf

National Prevention Strategy MENTAL and EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING Mental and emotional well-being is essential to overall health. Positive mental health allows people to ...

Dennis

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