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L’idea di felicità nella psicologia ingenua
Journal Title: EDUCAZIONE SENTIMENTALE 
Author/s:  Igor Sotgiu 
Year:  2015 Issue: 23 Language: Italian 
Pages:  8 Pg. 116-123 FullText PDF:  73 KB
DOI:  10.3280/EDS2015-023011
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The idea of happiness in naive psychology. The present work aims to explore the semantic space of happiness, illustrating and critically discussing the results from a recent research line which investigated how common people define and represent this concept. Overall, studies conducted in this field indicate that happiness is a broad conceptual category covering a wide range of meaning components and themes: for example, health, affective relationships, positive emotions, success, and self-actualization. However, it was also found that the perceived salience of some of these components significantly varies according to the socio-cultural context people live in and their age. In the conclusions, the author discusses the implications of these results for the measurement of subjective well-being and quality of life of the general population.
Keywords: Happiness, naive conceptions, individualism, collectivism, positive psychology.

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Igor Sotgiu, in "EDUCAZIONE SENTIMENTALE" 23/2015, pp. 116-123, DOI:10.3280/EDS2015-023011

   

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