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Well-Being

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We are all interested in well-being, consciously or subconsciously, as together we create well-being. In recent years, researchers, educators, policy-makers and politicians have been directly concerned with well-being, which has been viewed variously as happiness, satisfaction, enjoyment, contentment; and engagement and fulfilment, or a combination of these, and other, hedonic and eudaimonic factors. Well-being is also viewed as a process, something we do together, and as sense-making, rather than just a state of being. It is acknowledged that in life as a whole there will be periods of ill-being, and that these may add richness to life. It has also been recognized that well-being and the environment are intimately interconnected. Certainly, well-being is seen to be complex and multifaceted, and may take different forms.

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  1. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

    John Haworth

  2. University College London, UK

    Graham Hart

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Haworth, J., Hart, G. (2007). Introduction. In: Haworth, J., Hart, G. (eds) Well-Being. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287624_1

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