Hello Jeny

Yes, I would tend to agree. I found this link from the UK Dept Health:

Wellbeing: Why it matters to health policy. Health is the top thing people say matters to their wellbeing.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/277566/Narrative__January_2014_.pdf

In this document is mentioned a homeostasis theory(p.21), cited at (p.29):

Davern, M. T., Cummins, R. A., & Stokes, M. A. (2007). Subjective wellbeing as an affective-cognitive construct. Journal of Happiness Studies, 8(4), 429-449.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark_Stokes2/publication/23545605_Subjective_Wellbeing_as_an_Affective-Cognitive_Construct/links/55e7f55208ae65b638996586.pdf

Robert A Cummins has looked into this concept, e.g.:

Cummins, R. A., Gullone, E., & Lau, A. L. D. (2002). A model of subjective well-being homeostasis: The role of personality. In E. Gullone, R. A. Cummins, & A. L. D. Lau (Eds.), The universality of subjective well-being indicators. Social indicators research book series (vol. 2002, pp. 7–46). Dordrecht: Kluwer.

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-010-0271-4_3#page-1

Cummins, R. A., & Nistico, H. (2002). Maintaining life satisfaction: The role of positive bias. Journal of Happiness Studies, 3, 37–69.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23545470_Maintaining_Life_Satisfaction_The_Role_of_Positive_Cognitive_Bias

Cummins, R. A., & Lau, A. L. D. (2004). The motivation to maintain subjective well-being: A homeostatic model. In H. Switzky (Ed.), International review of research on mental retardation: Personality and motivational systems in mental retardation (Vol. 28, pp. 255–301). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251451365_The_Motivation_to_Maintain_Subjective_Well-Being_A_Homeostatic_Model

Cummins, R. A. (2005). Caregivers as managers of subjective wellbeing: A homeostatic perspective. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disability, 18, 335–344.  

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229617796_Caregivers_as_Managers_of_Subjective_Wellbeing_A_Homeostatic_Perspective

Tomyn, A. J., & Cummins, R. A. (2011). Subjective wellbeing and homeostatically protected mood: Theory validation with adolescents. Journal of Happiness Studies, 12(5), 897-914.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227591736_Subjective_Wellbeing_and_Homeostatically_Protected_Mood_Theory_Validation_With_Adolescents

It will be interesting to see how other respond.

Very best wishes,

Mary

Article Maintaining Life Satisfaction: The Role of Positive Cognitive Bias

Article Subjective Wellbeing as an Affective-Cognitive Construct

Article Subjective Wellbeing and Homeostatically Protected Mood: The...

Article Caregivers as Managers of Subjective Wellbeing: A Homeostati...

Article The Motivation to Maintain Subjective Well-Being: A Homeostatic Model

there are other theories that object it, actually, but i would tend to agree too... i would recommend to read Ferguson. what he says actually is similar to the optimum of motivation law (Yerkes-Dodson law) that some motivations and qualities work better when they are moderately (not too largely, not too little expressed)

Article Does Equity-Based Compensation Really Have a 'Dark Side'? Th...

Article The 'Dark Side' and 'Bright Side' of Personality: When Too M...

Article Future directions in personality, occupational and medical s...

Dear Jeny, I agree. But i am missing somatic and spiritual homoeostatic. You can find more information about these issues in the yoga theory. See the basic text of the Yoga philosophy namely Yoga Sutras (also called Yoga Darshana).

actually even Ernest Becker, whom i deeply love, and who mocked homeostatic model by Freud, talked about sin of hubris, for example, which is a synonym for excess. so even he understood the importance of a Golden Ratio (it goes to the Greeks and Leonardo da Vinci), of harmony (though he didn't believe in the utopia... but i am a bit poetic here). what i meant to say is when it's not understood too mechanically it is a very good concept.

but actually you need to be wary that some people think full homeostasis is like death - no wishes or needs to fullfill, nothing to strive for. so i would recommend Golden Ratio or balance instead (Golden Ratio - basically a part is just a small whole, a play with proportions). but there are other theories, that part is never a whole, as in chemistry: 2H and O separately is not H2O... I think it's Piaget, but i may be mistaken, maybe it's Vygotsky. am i becoming complicated? 

Hi Ksenia

Its good..

your reflections give a spark on the issue..

and a new direction for exploration....

the idea of "sin of hubris" is quite new to me..

Thanks a lot

Dear Carl...

I feel somatic-spiritual homeostasis...

that is not actually I am searching for..

I am searching for an explanation that will suffice neurologically revealed facts related to the  homeostasis of mind ...

an explanation comprising cognitive/affective references..to the issue...

thanks a lot..

Wow, Jeny, it's very ambitious. I am not a neurologist, and I think you need not a neurology, but neuroscience, neuropsychology. They may answer you. Or at least say that they hasn't found it yet.

If you just want to read an alternative view to homeostatic model, and some criticism, I would recommend you Ernest Becker The Revolution in Psychiatry: The New Understanding of Man. New York, The Free Press, 1964.

Hi Ksenia..

thank you...

I will try to get it...

hopefully...I am trying to delineate a conceptual pathway ...between basic psychological needs and homeostasis

If I could draw the trajectory through the concept of homeostasis it will be more meaningful...I thought...

after all it is need deficit which disrupts the homeostasis...in physiology...

why cant we carry the same to psychology...??

that's all..

I am working on a paper related to basic psychological need satisfaction..

Hi,  Jeny, there are a lot of beautiful facts in physiology that can contradict the theory of homeostasis - for example an activity potential - the environmental responce becomes active and profound only with a certain amount of stimuli. and if stumuli is too much, the cell becomes unresponcive. so it's more of a matter of balance, right abount of stimuli with the right tempo produce a working person (sounds like a sci-fi movie about buildind android,but i think it is true in people's recovery programs and in ordinary life). I think inner stimula - needs - work the same. if the need is too little and unarticlulate, it can produce none or little behavior, not alsways that that would satiate it. but then the need becomes more and more articulate and eventually hits the goal. the question is what happens the goal is met. does it produce a new goal, new wishes? so it's never a full homeostatis, you see?