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Isaac Prilleltensky. Community Well-Being Foundations [email protected] www.education.miami.edu/isaac. Part I. WELL-BEING. Colombians in the 90s. Highest level of life satisfaction in the world Highest rate of murders per capita in the world Highest number of kidnappings in the world - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Isaac Prilleltensky
Community Well-Being Foundations
isaac
WELL-BEINGPart I
Colombians in the 90s Highest level of life satisfaction in the
world Highest rate of murders per capita in the
world Highest number of kidnappings in the
world Highest levels of random violence
Mexicans in 2000s Highest level of life satisfaction in the
world Random violence Drug related killings Corruption
Happiness paradoxColombians:
were they high on cocaine?Mexicans:
too much tequila?No! social support, family, and democracy!!!
Happiness paradoxObjective and subjective assessments don’t always go together,
But, both are important
Colombia
Moldova
Definition of well-being Well-being is a positive state of affairs in
individuals, relationships, organizations, communities, and the natural environment, brought about by the simultaneous and balanced satisfaction of objective and subjective needs, which are, in turn, conditioned by different values and types of justice.
Model of Well-Being:Some positive and negative factors
Sites of Well-Being
Individual Relational Organizational Communal Environmental
Objective signs
+health- illness
+networks-isolation
+resources- lack of resources
-social capital-lack of trust
+clean air-pollution
Subjectivesigns
+efficacy-lack of control
+voice-repression
+support-isolation
+belonging-rejection
+safety-fear
Values as source and strategy
+autonomy-lack of power
+caring-neglect
+participation-marginality
+diversity-discrimination
+protection of resources-depletion of resources
Justice as source and strategy
My due/Our due
Your due/Our due
Its due/Our due Their due/Our due
Nature’s due/Our due
Personal well-being
Sense of control
CompetenceMeaning and
spirituality
My son Poor loser
Sir Michael Marmot and control over your life
Risk of Death by Employmentand Level of Control: 29,000 people, 30 years Marmot, Whitehall Studies
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Effects of social support Less likely to have heart attacks More likely to resist common cold virus Lower mortality Less degree of stress More positive outlook on life Resilience
My Social Support
Organizational Well-Being: A three legged stool
Effective
Supportive
Reflective
Investing in occupational well-being Unemployment leads to disease and depression Disengagement also leads to disease and
depression As engagement increases, cholesterol and
triglycerides go down Your boss can be the best doctor or the worst killer Worst manager is the one who does not pay
attention If your manager focuses on your strengths, the
chances of your being disengaged is just 1%
“workplaces with engaged employees, on average, do a better job of keeping employees, satisfying customers, and being financially productive and profitable. Workplace well-being and performance are not independent. Rather, they are complementary and dependent components of a financially and psychologically healthy workplace” (Harter, Schmidt & Keyes, 2003, p. 221)
Community Well-being
Social conditionsSocial capital Inequality
Social conditions: Nudging people to do the right thing
Conditions of Community Well-being
GiftsHospitalityAssociationFrom The Abundant Community (McKnight and
Block)
Social capital and community well-being
low med highhealth
welfareeducation
tolerancecrime
Louisiana MississippiGeorgiaFlorida
CaliforniaMissouriOhioColorado
DakotasVermontMinnesota
Male Life Expectancy by Inequality
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Where is Psychology in all of this?
In The Idea of Justice (2009), Sen asked:“How adequate is the perspective of happiness in judging a person’s well-being?”(p. 270)
Where is Psychology in all of this?
Sen continues…. “We could err either through not
being fair to the importance of happiness, or through overestimating its importance in judging the well-being of people, or being blind to the limitations of making happiness the main – or only – basis of assessment of social justice or social welfare” (Sen, 2009, p. 270).
Where is psychology in all of this? Psychology is likely to err on two counts: 1. Overestimating the
importance of happiness for well-being, and
2. Underestimating the importance of justice in well-being
Seligman’s Authentic Happiness (2002, pp. 61) “If you want to lastingly raise your level
of happiness by changing the external circumstances of your life, you should do the following: Live in wealthy democracy, not in an
impoverished dictatorship Get married Avoid negative events and negative
emotion Acquire a rich social network Get religion”
Seligman’s Authentic Happiness (2002, pp. 61)
“As far as happiness and life satisfaction are concerned, however, you needn’t bother to do the following Make more money Stay healthy Get as much education as possible (no
effect) Change your race or move to a sunnier
climate (no effect)”
Seligman concludes…. “Even if you could alter all of these
external circumstances, it would not do much for you, since together they probably account for no more than between 8 and 15 percent of the variance in happiness” (Authentic Happiness, 2002, p. 61).
Really?
Income Matters for Well-Being
Education Matters
Is this really true?Well-Being
Genetics 50%
Social conditions 10%
Motivation 40%
Can the gene pool change in 25 years?
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Context Minimization Error“Tendency to ignore the impact of
enduring neighborhood and community contexts on human behavior. The error has adverse consequences for understanding psychological processes and efforts at social change” (Shinn and Toohey, 2003, p. 428).
JUSTICEPart II
Justice and Well-Being
Process of making
decisions: The How of
Justice
Outcomes of decisions:
The What of Justice
Feelings, perceptions, cognitions
Material conditions,
external circumstances
Justice and Well-Being
Justice and Well-Being
Justice and Well-Being
Justice and Well-Being
Justice and Well-Being
Justice and Well-Being
Justice and Well-Being
Justice and Well-Being
Justice and Well-Being
PSYCHOSOCIAL PROCESSES
Part III
Well-being Continuum
Justice Continuum
Well-being Continuum
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Justice Continuum
•Promotion of Responsive Conditions•Prevention•Individual Pursuit•Avoidance of Comparisons
Thriving
Well-being Continuum
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Justice Continuum
Optimal Conditions of Justice
•Promotion of Responsive Conditions•Prevention•Individual Pursuit•Avoidance of Comparisons
•Resilience•Adaptation•Compensation•Downward Comparison
Thriving
Coping
Well-being Continuum
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Justice Continuum
Optimal Conditions of Justice
Suboptimal Conditions of Justice
•Promotion of Responsive Conditions•Prevention•Individual Pursuit•Avoidance of Comparisons
•Resilience•Adaptation•Compensation•Downward Comparison
•Critical Experience •Critical Consciousness•Critical Action•Righteous Comparison
Thriving
Coping
Confronting
Well-being Continuum
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Justice Continuum
Optimal Conditions of Justice
Suboptimal Conditions of Justice
Vulnerable Conditions of Injustice
•Promotion of Responsive Conditions•Prevention•Individual Pursuit•Avoidance of Comparisons
•Resilience•Adaptation•Compensation•Downward Comparison
•Critical Experience •Critical Consciousness•Critical Action•Righteous Comparison
•Oppression•Internalization•Helplessness•Upward Comparison
Thriving
Coping
Confronting Suffering
Well-being Continuum
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Justice Continuum
Optimal Conditions of Justice
Suboptimal Conditions of Justice
Vulnerable Conditions of Injustice
Persisting Conditions of Injustice
True or False58
Colombians are happier than MoldovansTR
UE