Emotional wellness refers to one’s emotional health and the ability to manage and understand one’s emotions in a healthy way.

Refers to the context of mental or emotional states, including positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.

It is also used in the context of life satisfaction, subjective well-being, flourishing and well-being.

The term is used in relation to two factors:

The current experience of the feeling of an emotion of pleasure or joy,.

A more general sense of emotional condition as a whole.

It is an appraisal of life satisfaction, such as of quality of life, and is the overall

The appreciation of one’s life as-a-whole, is more important to people than current experience.

Some descriptions of happiness can include both of these factors: Subjective well-being including measures of current experience of emotions, moods, and feelings and of life satisfaction:the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.

The correlation of income levels is substantial with life satisfaction measures, but is far weaker, than with current experience measures.

Whereas Nordic countries often score highest on subjective well-being surveys, South American countries score higher on affect-based surveys of current positive life experiencing.

One’s appraisal of a level of happiness at the time of the experience may be different from appraisal via memory at a later date.

Not all cultures seek to maximize happiness, and some cultures are averse to happiness.

People in countries with high cultural religiosity tend to relate their life satisfaction less to their emotional experiences than people in more secular countries.

The extent to which a society allows free choice has a major impact on happiness.

When basic needs are satisfied, the degree of happiness depends on economic and cultural factors that enable free choice in how people live their lives.

Happiness also depends on religion in countries where free choice is constrained.

Writers have suggested that the act of searching or seeking for happiness is incompatible with being happy, and that for the majority of people happiness is best achieved in passing, rather than striving for it directly.

These beliefs suggest self-consciousness, scrutiny, self-interrogation, dwelling on, thinking about, imagining or questioning on one’s happiness, doesn’t result in it.

Rather, some believe the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except the fact that they are so: some people are born happy.

Negative effects of seeking happiness can result from failure to meet high expectations, resulting in disappointment.

Negative effects of happiness may trigger a person to be more sensitive, more gullible, less successful, and more likely to undertake high risk behaviors.

Sigmund Freud suggested all humans strive after happiness, but that the possibilities of achieving it are restricted because we can “derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from the state of things”.

In Western cultures individual happiness is the most important.

Other cultures have opposite views and tend to be aversive to the idea of individual happiness, focusing more on the need for happiness within relationships with others and even find personal happiness to be harmful to fulfilling happy social relationships.

A study found that psychological well-being is higher for people who experienced both positive and negative emotions.

Experiential well-being, or “objective happiness”, is happiness measured in the moment via questions such as “How good or bad is your experience now?”

Evaluative well-being asks questions such as “How good was your vacation?” and measures one’s subjective thoughts and feelings about happiness in the past.

Several scales have been developed to measure happiness:

The Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS) is a four-item scale, measuring global subjective happiness.

The scale requires participants to use absolute ratings to characterize themselves as happy or unhappy individuals, as well as it asks to what extent they identify themselves with descriptions of happy and unhappy individuals.

The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) is a 20-item questionnaire, using a five-point Likert scale (1 = very slightly or not at all, 5 = extremely) to assess the relation between personality traits and positive or negative affects at this moment, today, the past few days, the past week, the past few weeks, the past year, and in general.

Positive Experience survey by Gallup.

World Happiness Report.

Happiness has been found to be quite stable over time.

No evidence of happiness causing improved physical health has been found.

There is a positive relationship has been suggested between the volume of the brain’s gray matter in the right precuneus area and one’s subjective happiness score.

Investigator Lyubomirsky has estimated that 50 percent of a given human’s happiness level could be genetically determined, 10 percent is affected by life circumstances and situation, and a remaining 40 percent of happiness is subject to self-control.

Genetics do not predict behavior, but is possible it for genes to increase the likelihood of individuals being happier compared to others, but they do not 100 percent predict behavior.

On average richer nations tend to be happier than poorer nations.

However, happiness seems to diminish with wealth of nations.

There are many different contributors to adult wellbeing, in that happiness reflects, in part, the presence of fairness, autonomy, community and engagement.

Cato Institute claims that economic freedom correlates strongly with happiness, preferably within the context of a western mixed economy, with free press and a democracy: East European countries when ruled by Communist parties were less happy than Western ones, even less happy than other equally poor countries.

Happiness economics, supports the contention that in democratic countries life satisfaction is strongly and positively related to the social democratic model of a generous social safety net, pro-worker labor market regulations, and strong labor unions.

There is evidence that public policies which reduce poverty and support a strong middle class, such as a higher minimum wage, strongly affect average levels of well-being.

The Cato institute suggests people make choices that decrease their happiness, because they have also more important aims, and government should not decrease the alternatives available for the citizens by patronizing them, but let the citizen keep a maximal freedom of choice: good mental health and relationships contribute more than income to happiness and governments should take these into account.

In the UK Richard Layard and others have led the development of happiness economics.

Studies show individuals who are the happiest and healthiest report strong interpersonal relationships.

Research shows that adequate sleep contributes to well-being.

Emotional wellness involves being aware of and able to identify various emotions, coping with stress and challenges, having positive coping mechanisms, and forming healthy relationships.

Emotional wellness involves having a balanced and positive outlook on life, and being able to express oneself and communicate effectively.

Maintaining emotional wellness is important for overall well-being.

Maintaining emotional wellness can enhance one’s quality of life.

Well-being, also known as wellness, or quality of life, refers to what is intrinsically valuable relative to someone.

The well-being of a person is what is ultimately good for this person, it is what is in the self-interest of this person.

Different types of well-being are distinguished: mental well-being, physical well-being, economic well-being or emotional well-being.

The different forms of well-being are often closely interlinked.

Well-being plays a central role in ethics since what we ought to do depends, at least to some degree, on what would make someone’s life get better or worse.

Hedonistic theory of well-being correlates with the balance of pleasure over pain.

Desire theories hold that well-being consists in desire-satisfaction: the higher the number of satisfied desires, the higher the well-being.

Objective list theories state that a person’s well-being depends on a list of factors that may include both subjective and objective elements.

Well-being is the central subject of positive psychology, and its factors consist in having positive emotions, being engaged in an activity, having good relationships with other people, finding meaning in one’s life and a sense of accomplishment in the pursuit of one’s goals.

The well-being of a person is what is good for the person.

Developmental psychology analyzes well being in terms of a pattern of growth across the lifespan.

Personality psychology, analysis of self-actualization, individuation, maturity to account for psychological well-being, biological, psychological and social needs are considered in well-being.

Social well-being consists of:

social integration,

social contribution,

social coherence,

social actualization,

social acceptance.

To understand psychological well-being it is necessary to distinguish positive and negative effects and defining optimal psychological well-being and happiness as a balance between the two.

Life satisfaction as the key indicator of psychological well-being.

Well-being is the product of many factors: feelings, beliefs, motivations, habits, resources, that are causally related in ways that explain increases in well-being or ill-being.

Suggested components of wellbeing: frequent positive affects, infrequent negative affects, and life satisfactions.

The factors that contribute to subjective well-being is based on the idea that how each person thinks and feels about his or her life is important.

Self-acceptance

Personal growth

Purpose in life

Environmental mastery

Autonomy

Positive relations with others

Mental well-being has three components, namely emotional or subjective well-being, psychological well-being, and social well-being.

Emotional well-being concerns subjective aspects of well-being, whereas psychological and social well-being concerns skills, abilities, and psychological and social functioning.

Well-being is a central concept in positive psychology, the reflection about what holds the greatest value in life – the factors that contribute the most to a well-lived and fulfilling life.

Positive psychologists agree to experience the good life, one must live a happy, engaged, and meaningful life.

PERMA: Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and purpose, and Accomplishments (Seligman).

Positive emotions in well-being: range of feelings, not just happiness and joy, but emotions like excitement, satisfaction, pride and awe: are frequently seen as connected to positive outcomes, such as longer life and healthier social relationships.

Engagement refers to involvement in activities that draws and builds upon one’s interests.

True engagement as flow, is a feeling of intensity that leads to a sense of ecstasy and clarity.

The task being done needs to call upon higher skill and be a bit difficult and challenging yet still possible.

Engagement involves passion for and concentration on the task at hand and is assessed subjectively as to whether the person engaged was completely absorbed, losing self-consciousness.

Relationships are all important in fueling positive emotions, whether they are work-related, familial, romantic, or platonic.

Other people matter, as people receive, share, and spread positivity to others through relationships.

They are important not only in bad times, but good times as well.

In fact, relationships can be strengthened by reacting to one another positively.

It is typical that most positive things take place in the presence of other people.

Finding meaning is learning that there is something greater than one’s self.

Working with meaning drives people to continue striving for a desirable goal.

Accomplishments are the pursuit of success and mastery, and unlike the other parts of PERMA, they are sometimes pursued even when accomplishments do not result in positive emotions, meaning, or relationships.

Accomplishments can activate the other elements of PERMA, such as pride.

Accomplishments can be individual or community-based, fun- or work-based.

The biopsychosocial model of well being emphasises the modifiable components needed for an individual to have a sense of wellbeing:

healthy environments; physical, social, cultural, and economic, developmental competencies of healthy identity, emotional and behavioural regulation, interpersonal skills, and problem-solving skills, sense of belonging, healthy behaviors of sleep, nutrition, exercise, pleasurable and mastery activities, healthy coping, resilience, and treatment of illness.

Personal well-being helps define as how satisfied we are with our lives, our sense that what we do in life is worthwhile, our day to day emotional experiences of happiness and anxiety and our wider mental wellbeing.

Some forms of well-being, like sensory pleasures, are less valuable than other forms of well-being, like intellectual pleasures.

It is likely that what matters is not just the sum total of well -being factors, but also how the individual degrees of well-being are distributed.

The concept of welfarism is committed to actions, policies, or rules that are based on how their consequences affect everyone’s well-being.

Wellbeing research finds that 33% of workers globally are thriving, 55% struggling and 11% suffering.