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The role of psychological well-being in laypeople's definitions of flourishing during the pandemic in a text mining study
Weßelborg, Lucinda Robin (2023) The role of psychological well-being in laypeople's definitions of flourishing during the pandemic in a text mining study.
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| Abstract: | Past research has addressed the issue that theoretical definitions of flourishing might not include all aspects of laypeople’s understandings of flourishing. Therefore, the overall aim of the present study was to investigate to what degree theory and laypeople’s conceptualizations coincide. Examining whether laypeople’s definitions of flourishing have changed in demanding times such as the past Covid-19 pandemic could provide further indications on the stability of such definitions. Dimensions of psychological well-being were found to have had a positive influence on well-being during the pandemic. Hence, this study investigates how these dimensions were represented in laypeople’s definitions and how they differed before and during the pandemic. The qualitative online survey study used a between-subject cross-sectional design. The participants' answers were analysed with the text mining approach topic modeling. A minimum of ten out of 14 topics of each topic model corresponded with psychological well-being dimensions. A strong representation of psychological well-being dimensions indicated more similarities than differences between theory and laypeople’s definitions. Since this representation remained strong, definitions of flourishing appear to be stable in challenging times. For future research, it could be advisable to use within-participant measures to gain deeper insight into the stability of flourishing in adversity. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology MSc (66604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/96935 |
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