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How we feel changes over time? Obviously if something bad happens, such as being made redundant or having an accident it will affect how we feel for a while but eventually we will probably recover. Every now and then we seem to “get out of the wrong side of the bed” and start the day in a low and irritable mood for no obvious reason. A disagreement with a colleague or a difficult time with a customer can also affect how we feel. So far in this book we have been discussing PWB and shown that levels of PWB are related to job performance, physical health, life success, problem-solving and a whole range of factors
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Johnson, S., Robertson, I., Cooper, C.L. (2018). Psychological Well-Being. In: WELL-BEING. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62548-5_4
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