American Psychologist

Psychological well-being cannot be simply the absence of distress and conflict, any more than physical health is the absence of disease. Discussions of what well-being entails are ongoing in various research and theoretical literatures (e.g., Barsky, 1988; Seeman, 1989), but these have not yet been incorporated into the lines of inquiry ... ................
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