Abundant evidence highlights the important role of personality traits, age, and social relationships in the experience of subjective well-being. Experiential factors influence well-being, and evidence shows that specific forms of training, such as physical exercise and mindfulness meditation, can produce strong and enduring beneficial effects on well-being. These factors also shape the structur...

Pervasive Well-being Technology

This paper is mainly methodological. It is concerned with the different ways me may analyse personal life course data. Personal life courses are defined by a succession of events regarding living arrangement, familial life, education, professional career, health, etc. We may focus on one of these events — leaving home, marriage, first job, divorce, becoming disabled — and examine how the hazard...

Most Americans have occasional problems with insomnia. The relationship of insomnia to illness is well known. However, insomnia may also relate to lower levels of well-being. Although there are various definitions of well-being, one of the most clearly articulated and comprehensive models identifies 2 overarching constructs, psychological well-being and subjective well-being. The purpose in the...

13 The assessment of pain, distress and suffering, as well as evaluation of the efficacy of stress14 reduction strategies, is crucial in animal experimentation but can be challenging in laboratory 15 mice. Nest building and burrowing performance, observed in the home cage, have proved to 16 be valuable and easy-to-use tools to assess brain damage or malfunction as well as 17 neurodegenerative d...

Each person is different and should be treated as such. Comparing personal data to group averages can give basic ideas about personal conditions, but does not suffice for providing ‘true’ personalized feedback. In health psychology, a paradigm shift is taking place from a general population approach towards a more person-centered one. Instead of comparing a person with population averages, the ...