Theories and models of subjective well-being: cl assic and modern approaches

Abstract

Subjective well-being (SW) of a person makes a significant contribution to maintaining physical and mental health, as well as to positive functioning. There is enough literature on this topic, but since the direction in psychology is still quite new, although it originates from Antiquity, this information is not structured and ambiguous. A new direction is new research, new discoveries and prospects. Today, Ukrainians are in a difficult socially unstable situation, which negatively affects both physical health and psychological well-being. Every day, the country's residents are in a state of social instability and uncertainty, which arise due to the need to learn to live in conditions of military events. Many external factors affect the mental state of a person, but we cannot remove or change these external factors. The constant focus of human attention on unchanging external factors leads us, as specialists, to the need to increase awareness of mental health problems of representatives of different segments of the population of Ukraine and to develop measures to support their psychological well-being. Despite the fact that scientific works on subjective well-being are becoming more and more numerous, the problem of determining the psychological picture of subjective well-being, the mechanisms of its formation and possible ways to achieve this state still remains an unsolved problem. The purpose of the article is to summarize existing approaches to the definition of SB, taking into account classical and modern approaches, to structure possible components of SB. Therefore, the article provides a brief theoretical analysis of classical approaches, and also presents modern theories on understanding human SB. The phenomenon of SB is considered as an integral formation and factors that have a direct connection and influence on it.