PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL – BEING CONTENT IN TODAY’S PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES

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  • Ēriks Kalvāns Rezekne Academy of Technologies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17770/ercs2012.1

Keywords:

psychological well – being, positive psychology, psychological theories, personal growth, eudaimonism

Abstract

Psychological well-being is a phenomenon that significantly affects an individual's basic functional aspects: everyday sense of self, personal cognitive sphere, interpersonal relationships and professional success. Because of the relatively small theoretical and empirical research, there is a number of psychological well-being concept operationalization difficulties and validate the empirical study of instruments deficit. For these reasons, acquires relevance of sychological well-being of the phenomenon of theoretical and empirical research. This ublication reflects the main approaches to the treatment of psychological well-being of the phenomenon of modern psychology.

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2015-09-01

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