PubMed · 11651690
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Tom M Grundner. 1982. Readability revisited.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11651690/
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Subjective well-being (SWB), people's emotional and cognitive evaluations of their lives, includes what lay people call happiness, peace, fulfillment, and life satisfaction. Personality dispositions such as extraversion, neuroticism, and self-esteem can markedly influence levels of SWB. Although personality can explain a significant amount of the variability in SWB, life circumstances also influence long-term levels. Cultural variables explain differences in mean levels of SWB and appear to be due to objective factors such as wealth, to norms dictating appropriate feelings and how important SWB is considered to be, and to the relative approach versus avoidance tendencies of societies. Culture can also moderate which variables most influence SWB. Although it is challenging to assess SWB across societies, the measures have some degree of cross-cultural validity. Although nations can be evaluated by their levels of SWB, there are still many open questions in this area.
An increasingly important number of studies are reclaiming themes from the fields of the cognitive sciences and the neurosciences. It seems essential, in the face of this multiplication of the lines of research, often very different in their object and their methodology, to recall the general theoretical paradigm of the cognitive sciences, in order to shed light on the links between the different researches and this theoretical model. Moreover, the best validation of a theoretical model remaining in medicine is that of its practical application. It is today fundamental to explore the field of cognitive research for its possible impact on the domains of clinical presentation and management of patients with schizophrenia. This article proposes to address these different points.