Overview
Addresses the paradox that, despite quantifiable advances, people often struggle to experience positive wellbeing
Brings together wellbeing and personhood research from multiple disciplines
Explains how aspirational cultures are detrimental to wellbeing
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About this book
This book addresses the paradox that, despite quantifiable advances, people often struggle to experience positive wellbeing. Kevin Moore argues that two key insights can help resolve this paradox: first, that we live in an ‘aspirational culture’ that has its roots in the agrarian revolution and now demands constant economic growth, individual ambition, and self-improvement while promoting change and uncertainty; and second, that we are persons, and persons are created when cultures interact with our biology. Accordingly, our wellbeing depends on how personhood develops through that interaction.
Bringing together wellbeing and personhood research from multiple disciplines, Moore explains how aspirational cultures are detrimental to wellbeing because they consistently undermine and disrupt the ordinary tasks of life that are essential to sustaining our personhood and wellbeing. He concludes that if we are serious about improving wellbeing, we have to create a culture not based on aspiration but which, instead, focuses on supporting persons and personhood.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kevin Moore is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environment, Society and Design, Department of Tourism, Sport and Society at Lincoln University, New Zealand. He has taught courses on the social psychology of wellbeing since 2009 and for thirty years has researched theoretical psychology, wellbeing, and leisure.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wellbeing and Aspirational Culture
Authors: Kevin Moore
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15643-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15642-8Published: 26 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15643-5Published: 11 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 243
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Community and Environmental Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Emotion, Self and Identity, Critical Psychology