Focusing on the Cognitive Component of Subjective Well-Being: The Relationship between Life Satisfaction and Psychological Distress
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral and Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1879
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health psychology; protective factors in the stress-psychological distress relationship; mental health; organizational factors in psychological well-being; validation of psychological instruments
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Research is pointing to an alarming increase in mental health problems, largely exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Being satisfied with one’s life and promoting satisfaction with life hold potential for countering the adverse effects of the negative indices of psychological distress. Life satisfaction is regarded as the cognitive component of subjective well-being. In the context of the growing mental health “pandemic”, the correlating and protective factors of the negative indices of mental health should be considered as a priority. Life satisfaction is an important pillar within the positive psychology movement (Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi, 2014) and focuses on psychological strength. Seligman (2010) bemoaned psychology’s obsession with “what is wrong with life: suicide, depression, schizophrenia, and all the brick walls that can fall on you” and the ways in which (we) “tried to create a field in which we asked the question ‘What makes life worth living, and how can we build it?’” This Special Issue calls for papers that focus on the relationship between life satisfaction and indices of psychological distress, as well as the potential protective roles that life satisfaction plays with regard to the negative indices of mental well-being in different populations.
Prof. Dr. Tyrone Brian Pretorius
Prof. Dr. Anita Padmanabhanunni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- life satisfaction
- psychological distress
- depression
- anxiety
- loneliness
- mental health and well-being
