From ’Full Life ’ to ’Balanced Life’: Extending Martin Seligman’s Route to Happiness
| Title: | From ’Full Life ’ to ’Balanced Life’: Extending Martin Seligman’s Route to Happiness |
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| Authors: | Aloys Prinz; Björn Bünger; Jel-classification I |
| Contributors: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: | http://www.wiwi.uni-muenster.de/cawm/forschen/Download/Diskbeitraege/DP_17_Balancing-Life-WorkingPaper.pdf. |
| Publication Year: | 2009 |
| Collection: | CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: | ’full life’; happiness; allocation of time |
| Description: | In this paper, a formalization of Martin Seligman’s concept of full life is presented by employing basic microeconomics. With the formalized version of the concept, it can be explained why people differ with respect to the levels of pleasant, engaged and meaning-ful life they are trying to realize. Moreover, it is suggested to extend Seligman’s concept of full life to the concept of balanced life. This extension requires that in addition to differences in people’s preferences regarding aspects of life also differences in the time opportunity costs are to be taken into account. Finally, a scorecard-approach is pro-posed to track personal advancement in the process of life balancing. |
| Document Type: | text |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.556.7456 |
| Availability: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.556.7456; http://www.wiwi.uni-muenster.de/cawm/forschen/Download/Diskbeitraege/DP_17_Balancing-Life-WorkingPaper.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.6D0FEB2D |
| Database: | BASE |