10 - wellness

• Wellness is a state of being that encompasses physical, mental, and emotional health.
• Distress is a state of being characterized by negative events, internal factors, and lack of well-being.
• Eustress is a state of being characterized by positive events, internal factors, and well-being.
• If I could live my life over, I would change almost nothing.
• Positive psychology is important because it focuses on strengths and well-being, rather than on weaknesses and mental illness.
• Stephen Hawking, a mathematics professor at Cambridge University and famous for his work in theoretical physics, posted a question on Yahoo Answers "Ask the Planet" campaign in July, 2006: "In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?"
• Human-made negative events include war, power struggles, within-between country/group conflict, hatred, prejudice/discrimination, and ethic/religious/race genocide.
• Natural negative events include natural disaster, famine, health, aging, loss.
• Internal factors contributing to distress include psychopathology (Dark Triad/Tetrad: P, M, N, S), and person-situation interactions.
• Well-being, positive outlook, resiliency, happiness, emotional intelligence, positive outlook, and flourishing, savoring, thriving, optimism, fulfillment, resilience, meaning in life are presenters of health and well-being.
• The Satisfaction With Life scale by Deiner et al. includes five statements with which you may agree or disagree, using a scale.
• The revised EI model by Bar-On includes Personal Resiliency & Life Events Mastery, Relatedness, Reactivity, and Life Events Ability.
• EQ covers everything from how confident we feel, our ability to express emotions constructively instead of destructively, our skills in forming successful relationships, our ability to stand up for ourselves, setting and achieving goals, and to handling the stress we all face.
• The Flourishing Scale measures satisfaction with life, personal resiliency, life events mastery, relatedness, reactivity, and life events ability.
• The Flourishing Scale ©Copyright by Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, January 2009, includes 8 statements with which you may agree or disagree, using a 1-7 scale.
• Bar-On's (1997) original definition of EI has been revised to the current definition: "A set of emotional and social skills that influence the way we perceive and express ourselves, develop and maintain social relationships, cope with challenges, and use emotional information in an effective and meaningful way".
• Early environments/deprivation studies, Harlow’s monkeys, Seligman’s dogs, war/stressful environments, and Weiss et al’s ‘demographics’/cycle of Poverty are examples of negative events that can contribute to distress.
• Positive Psychology focuses on positive emotions, biological, psychological, social and relational, institutional, cultural, and global dimensions.
• Robert J. Sternberg and James C. Kaufman argue that increases in IQ observed across generations may not manifest themselves in people’s behavior.
• Gardner’s 8 multiple intelligences include Personal Intelligence (PI), which is a combination of specific cognitive and emotional abilities.
• Personal Intelligence (PI) is further divided into two related dimensions: Intrapersonal intelligence and Interpersonal intelligence.
• Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a field of investigation that has touched many disparate areas of human endeavor since its inception.