Features and problems of studying of subjective well-being in modern psychological researches

Keywords

subjective well-being
psychological well-being
happiness experience
personal growth
problems of the subjective well-being research
subjective well-being of children and teenagers

Abstract

In the article there are resulted some problems connected with methodological aspects of research of a phenomenon of subjective well-being. The analysis of native and foreign researches has allowed to reveal that to the most widespread they concern the complexities at attempt of separation of subjective well-being from close concepts, the restrictions arising at a choice of diagnostic toolkit, necessity of account of social and cultural context at the research construction, some restrictions at the subjective well-being concept’s application to children and teenagers.

https://doi.org/10.21702/rpj.2011.3.5

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