Conceptualizations of Wellbeing: Insights from a Prototype Analysis on New Zealand Workers
@inproceedings{Hone2015ConceptualizationsOW, title={Conceptualizations of Wellbeing: Insights from a Prototype Analysis on New Zealand Workers}, author={Lucy C. Hone and Aaron J. Jarden}, year={2015} }
The current research investigated New Zealand workers' perspectives of wellbeing. Specifically, we were interested in how workers conceptualized wellbeing and what sorts of activities workers currently engage in to promote their individual wellbeing. Four studies surveyed whether workers' conceptualizations of wellbeing are consistent with academic models of wellbeing, the different ways New Zealand workers promote individual wellbeing, and whether the concept of wellbeing is prototypically…
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