When we read about happiness at work or organizational happiness, we mostly read well-being actually. But are they really same ot interchangable?
I am not sure about it..
I think well-being is something superior or an umbrella term encompassing many other terms such as happiness, affect, satisfaction, crafting, flourishing or thriving...
What do you think about it?
How do you interprete these concepts?
Thanks
Happiness, as distinct from well-being, can be conceived of as positive affect. The PANAS instrument is what used most often to measure positive affect:
Watson, D., Clark, L. A., & Tellegen, A. (1988). Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: the PANAS scales. Journal of personality and social psychology, 54(6), 1063.
Keyes, in his mental health continuum model takes emotional social and psychological well being as components of mental health. Emotional well being encompasses happoness, psychological well being is the eudaimonic well being. This is nearly the same notion of one generic wellbeing.
Article The Mental Health Continuum: From Languishing to Flourishing in Life
As you may know better than me, are there any distinct charactersitics to distinguish happiness and well-being?
I comprehend that well-being is an umbrella term to describe life satisfaction, positive affect, flourishing, resilience, or even flow. And, there are various kinds, namely psychological well-being, eudaimonic well-being, emotional well-being, economic well-being and spiritual well-being.
It seems very complicated to distinguish happiness here...
What do you think?
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