Talk:Well-being

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Compare to well being

The term "well being" (without the hyphen) redirects to a different (QOL) page. This should be reconciled. --Lbeaumont (talk) 23:48, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Done. Biscuittin (talk) 21:09, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Online Tools for understanding well-being

This section seems to be biased towards one particular view without any valid references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.9.185.136 (talk) 04:47, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Can the name of the article be wellbeing instead of well-being?

As the word wellbeing is in use along with well-being, but wellbeing seems more popular use of the word, should the article have name wellbeing and well-being can be redirected here? The reverse is being done now. SHould I request administrators to do these changes if they find appropriate. Thanks in advance. -- Abhijeet Safai (talk) 08:11, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Canadian Law

In the "Background" section of this article, there's one sentence that states, "Social well-being is mentioned in Canadian law.[4]". This is a ridiculously trivial inclusion — such as of near irrelevance. That reference opens to a web page that mentions well-being in a generalized context.

The actual line in the reference merely reads: "(i) provides for the sound development of the oil and gas sector, by fostering a healthy environment, a sound economy and social well being,"; whereas, that's hardly of any substantial significance or relevance. I'm sure we could find the words "well being" — aside from "social well being" — scattered in countless government documents around the world. So what? This doesn't really evidence anything and it should be omitted. Ca.papavero (talk) 08:18, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 26 July 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) -- Calidum 00:12, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

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Well-being → Wellbeing – As per the common name policy and concise titles policy. A Google Trends query shows that "wellbeing" is used 5.5x more than "well-being" and is the most used search term in every single region listed. ItsPugle (talk) 22:51, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose - Google Trends seems to be at odds with Google Ngrams, as well as the preponderance of citations in use on this article. -- Netoholic @ 07:37, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, I had a look at the Google Ngrams page, but it was somewhat confusing about the right search notation to use since "well-being" includes a hyphen. Turns out you need to put a space on either side of the hyphen otherwise it'll see it as an operator. As a result, the proper search term shows "wellbeing" being used exponentially more. ItsPugle (talk) 10:46, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Yeah it will by default assume you want to search for the hyphenated word, and will convert the syntax (note the message "Replaced well-being with [well - being] to match how we processed the books"). Your link isn't proper - see how in the legend of the graph it is using double-hyphens as "well -- being". In your link, you'd need to include the brackets as in [well - being], whereas for "well MINUS being", you'd use (well - being) -- I have no idea what "well -- being" is displaying. My link above is showing correct results for wellbeing vs well-being. -- Netoholic @ 11:11, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm not following. The Google Ngrams instructions say down the bottom Because users often want to search for hyphenated phrases, put spaces on either side of the - sign (§ Ngram Compositions). ItsPugle (talk) 22:19, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

It also says this: The Ngram Viewer will try to guess whether to apply these behaviors. You can use parentheses to force them on, and square brackets to force them off. Example: and/or will divide and by or; to measure the usage of the phrase and/or, use [and/or]. And well-meaning will search for the phrase well-meaning; if you want to subtract meaning from well, use (well - meaning). In other words, if you add the spaces, you should also add the brackets - just as they indicate on the results screen when you search for well-being. -- Netoholic @ 06:58, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Ngrams is so confusing. I'm lost, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ItsPugle (please use {{ping|ItsPugle}} on reply) 23:44, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose. I have little doubt that someone quickly typing in a search term will omit a hyphen most of the time, but Webster's Dictionary.com both include the hyphen in their entries. Rreagan007 (talk) 17:26, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

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Psychometric Properties of Flourishing Scales From a Comprehensive Well-Being Assessment

A recently published paper "Psychometric Properties of Flourishing Scales From a Comprehensive Well-Being Assessment" claims to have developed "a measure of complete well-being". It may be helpful to integrate these new findings into the existing article. Thanks! --Lbeaumont (talk) 15:44, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Types of Wellbeing

mental well-being, physical well-being, economic well-being or emotional well-being

There are four different types of well-being; mental, physical, economic, and emotional well-being. A section for each well-being should be added.Jenna.Hill1 (talk) 02:03, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Eudaemonia

Maybe it would be appropriate to add Aristotle's concept of eudaemonia to the introduction of the article? Just a thought...

SpicyMemes123 (talk) 12:03, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Emotional well-being

Emotional well-being redirects here but has substantial text after the #REDIRECT directive. Please can an editor familiar with the subject un-redirect, merge, delete or otherwise deal with the content? Pinging the redirect author, TheEmeraldBoat. Thanks, Certes (talk) 16:51, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice; I’ll go remove the post-redirect content. I’m not sure why I left the article content when I first made the edit, to be honest. Teb (talk) 17:16, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: PSYC 115 General Psychology

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Social media is a two-process framework that contributes to well-being

Social media online is a two-process framework. Process one involves the self-disclosure and the effects of well-being. Process two involves the well-being states that influence disclosure has on motivations. Process one consists of 4 prominent mechanisms which include 1) perceived connectedness, 2) social support, 3) capitalization process, and 4) psychological authenticity. Perceived connectedness refers to the feeling of relatedness with one another in their lives, this can lead to a negative or positive effect on well-being. Social support refers to the social benefits that people perceive, express, and gain from human interactions. Social support provides and provides a positive effect. Capitalization and authenticity suggests that expressing personal thoughts and emotions have additional effects on psychological well-being because it increases the salience and significance of the events. Process two aims to make clear the disclosure types due to the variations in psychological states. Process two consists of 1) interpersonal motives: relational development and 2) intrapersonal motives: self-expression. Relational development seeks to gain closeness and intimacy with another person. This motive gains more of a positive disclosure due to the intentional self-disclosure. Self-expression on social media allows for those to release pent-up thoughts or feelings in a ‘safe’ space. Studies suggest that self-expression can lead to a more negative connotation of disclosure. Closing the gap will point out that a lack of honesty makes it difficult for positive self-disclosure in social media. Negative disclosure leads to impaired relational goals.

--Takeoutsushi (talk) 20:42, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your efforts to improve this article. I suggest that you prepare a draft before and add it to the article when it is complete. Please keep in mind that well-being is a very broad topic the effect of social media on well-being is only one very specific issue. So it may not be justified to dedicate a full section social media, see WP:PROPORTION. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:45, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Digital Media

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Changes to the article

I was considering improvements to this article with the hope of moving it in the direction of GA status. Currently, the article has a few unreferenced passages and the following maintenance tags: 1x Expand section, 2x citation needed, 1x when?, 1x clarification needed.

The section "Scientific approaches" currently only lists three fields of study (developmental, personality, and clinical psychology) but fails to mention the main field (positive psychology) and the many approaches outside psychology (economics, neuroscience, health sciences,...). We could rename the section to "Fields of inquiry" or something similar so that it can also cover philosophy, another key discipline. This section would also be a good place to properly explain how well-being is measured since this is currently missing. The discussion of "Global studies" seems more appropriate for this section rather than as a separate main section, which is currently placed at the end of the article.

The article mentions some types of well-being in passing, but I think this topic needs a more thorough discussion in a separate section. At the very least, it should cover the distinction between subjective and objective well-being. It would be good to explain other types as well, such as mental, physical, social, economic, emotional, eudaimonic, individual, and community well-being.

I'm not sure that we need the section "Overview" since providing an overview is already the purpose of the lead section. It could be replaced by a definition section, which could also cover the connection between well-being and related terms like ill-being, happiness, pleasure, life satisfaction, etc.

There are more things to be done but they can be addressed later since the ones mentioned so far will already involve a lot of work to implement. I was hoping to get some feedback on these ideas and possibly other suggestions. Phlsph7 (talk) 11:14, 15 December 2024 (UTC)