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Well-being

What is intrinsically good for someone / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Well-being, or wellbeing,[1] also known as wellness, prudential value or quality of life, refers to what is intrinsically valuable relative to someone. So the well-being of a person is what is ultimately good for this person, what is in the self-interest of this person.[2] Well-being can refer to both positive and negative well-being. In its positive sense, it is sometimes contrasted with ill-being as its opposite.[3] The term "subjective well-being" denotes how people experience and evaluate their lives, usually measured in relation to self-reported well-being obtained through questionnaires.[4]

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Children appearing to experience/exhibit well-being after an art class

For a long time, wellbeing has been treated as a variable from none to a high degree of wellbeing. This usage of wellbeing has in later times been widened to also include a negative aspect of wellbeing. With the aim of understanding how different route environmental variables affect the wellbeing during walking or cycling, the term "environmental unwellbeing" has been coined.[5][6]