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  • Psychology
  • Community Studies

Background:

  • Current community wellbeing assessments often focus on individual subjective wellbeing.
  • Existing frameworks tend to view the self as autonomous, overlooking collective aspects.
  • This individualistic approach neglects crucial factors like inequalities and scale.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the relationship between community wellbeing and individual subjective wellbeing.
  • To critique dominant, individualistic approaches to community wellbeing assessment.
  • To propose a relational perspective for a more comprehensive understanding of community wellbeing.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review and conceptual analysis of existing community wellbeing frameworks.
  • Examination of underlying assumptions in dominant assessment models.
  • Exploration of social theories, particularly relational self theories.

Main Results:

  • Dominant frameworks prioritize individual wellbeing and neglect social/spatial inequalities and scale.
  • A relational approach conceptualizes community wellbeing as 'being well together'.
  • Relational perspectives can address complex interactions of inequality, scale, and time.

Conclusions:

  • The dominant approach to community wellbeing is limited by its individualistic assumptions.
  • A relational perspective offers a more nuanced understanding of community wellbeing.
  • Defining and measuring community wellbeing is fundamentally a political choice, not merely a technical one.