Understanding Well-Being Isaac Prilleltensky

1. Understanding Well-BeingIsaac Prilleltensky isaac@miami.edu www.education.miami.edu/isaac

2. The Grameen Bank • Muhammad Yunus gave credit to poorest of poor in Bangladesh • -Grew Grameen Bank to 5 million people cooperative • - Lifted millions out of indigence

3. Overview of Presentation • Well-Being • Signs and Sources • Personal • Organizational • Community

4. What is Well-being?: A simple definition Well-being is a positive state of affairs, brought about by the simultaneous satisfaction of personal, organizational, and collective needs of individuals and communities

5. Research on Well-being • There cannot be well-being but in the combined presence of personal, organizational and community well-being organizational W personal community

6. Sites, signs, sources, and strategies of well-being

7. Signs, sources, and strategies of personal well-being

8. Signs, sources, and strategies of organizational well-being –

9. Signs, sources, and strategies of community well-being

10. Personal signs, sources and strategies of well-being

11. What can organizations do for workers?

12. What can the community do for us?

13. What can we do for the community?

14. Signs of Personal Well-being • Sense of control • Physical health • Love • Optimism • Competence • Dignity • Growth • Self-esteem • Meaning and spirituality

15. Ora and Matan: A Family Strengths Story

16. Who might die younger due to lack of control and stress in life? • A. Senior executives • B. Middle managers • C. Clerical workers, secretaries • D. Unskilled labor • E. A and B

17. Sir Michael Marmot and control over your life

18. Risk of Death by Employmentand Level of Control Marmot, Whitehall Studies

19. EFFECTS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT • Less likely to have heart attacks • Some evidence that are more likely to survive cancer (challenged lately) • More likely to resist common cold virus • Lower mortality • Less degree of stress • More positive outlook on life • Resilience

20. Sources of Personal Well-Being • Biological and Constitutional Factors • Early Parenting Experiences • Emotional Intelligence • Supportive Relationships in Multiple Contexts and Settings • Opportunities for growth, engagement and self-determination

21. High Low Reflective Environment High Low High Low Affective Environment Effective Environment Signs of Organizational Well-Being:ERA Environments

22. Organizational Well-Being • Efficient structures • Clear roles and communication • Monitoring mechanisms • Vision and purpose • Learning and growth opportunities • Sense of control • Identity and meaning

23. Signs of Community Well-being • Social justice and equality • Liberation from oppressive forces • Quality education • Adequate health and social services • Economic prosperity • Adequate housing • Clean and safe environment • Support for community structures

24. Sources of Community Well-being • Poverty • Power • Participation

25. Geography and social capital • In what of the following states there is the highest level of social capital • A. Alabama • B. California • C. New York • D. Vermont • E. Georgia

26. Social capital and community well-being Low SC: LA, MS, GA Med SC: CA, MO, OK Hi SC: ND, SD, VT, MN

27. Male Life Expectancy by InequalityWatch unnatural consequences

36. Colombia: Happy but Dead • Highest rate of murders per capita in the world • Highest number of kidnappings in the world • Colombia 5181 in 7 years • Mexico 1269 • Brazil 515 • Venezuela 109 • Severe under reporting • Colombians report highest level of satisfaction 8.31 (out of 10) in the world in the 90s

38. Is happiness really a genetic phenomenon? Lykken and Tellegen (1996, Psychological Science). • In the Minnesota twins study, authors report, • “Neither socioeconomic status, educational attainment, family income, marital status, not an indicant of religious commitment could account for more than about 3% of the variance in WB” (in monozygotic twins) • “We estimate that the heritability of the stable component of subjective well-being approaches 80%”

39. Change in life satisfaction over the years(Inglehart, 2004)

40. Russia’s happiness and satisfaction plunges

41. Income is not everything though

42. Wealth matters for life expectancy

43. Chinese happiness and democracy

44. The connections between objective and subjective conditions and outcomes + + objective objective - - Conditions Well-being + + subjective subjective - -

45. The Case of Colombia + + objective objective crime - - Conditions Well-being + + hope subjective subjective - -

46. The Case of Relative Deprivation in Sweden and UK: How the worst off fare + + Higher morbidity objective objective - - Unfairness Conditions Well-being Low control / high demand + + High effort / low reward subjective subjective - -

47. Cake of Well-being Easy temperament Physical health Adequate birth weight Good parenting Mutual Support Good mental health Child Parental & Family Child care Good schools Adequate housing Cohesion Access to health care Community Employment Justice Safety nets Quality education Societal

48. Mountain of Risk Poor temperament Poor health Birth weight Teen parenting Family size Stressors Poor parenting Addictions Poor mental health Child Parental & Family No child care Poor housing Lack of cohesion Crime Community Poverty Injustice Violence Discrimination Societal

49. Ecological Model of Well-Being

50. Model of Well-Being:Some positive and negative factors