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Terminology and the Well-being Literature
Tyler J VanderWeele1, Tim Lomas2
1Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 USA.
Abstract:
In this commentary, we offer some remarks concerning distinctions that might be drawn between psychological well-being, emotional well-being, well-being more generally, and flourishing. We put forward a flexible map of flourishing to help understand the relative place of these and other terms, and their respective nestings. We discuss some of the challenges concerning terminology related to the use of ordinary language, as well as practices of branding ordinary language expressions that potentially threaten understanding, and we offer some suggestions as to how to navigate some of these terminological challenges in the well-being literature.
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