What is models of wellbeing ~ Dr Manju Antil (Counselling Psychologist and Psychotherapist)

PERMA MODEL: The PERMA model was designed by Martin Seligman with five important components of psychological well-being and happiness. In the viewpoint of Seligman, these five elements are helpful in the attainment of happiness. This model can also be applied to institutions to develop new cognitive and emotional tools.

Positive emotions: This component of the model has obvious connections to happiness. It is the ability to be optimistic and view the present, past and future in a positive way. Another important element of this model is to distinguish between pleasure and enjoyment. Pleasure refers to satisfaction of bodily needs that are essential for existence such as hunger, thirst, and sleep. On the other hand, we got enjoyment from intellectual stimulation and creativity.

Engagement: It is very important for all to find such activities that need our full engagement for happiness. We all know that individual differences existed everywhere, and sources for enjoyment are different for everyone whether playing the sport, singing, dancing or working on some interesting project.

Relationships: It is a common assumption and well-known fact that Man is a social animal. Relationships and social connections are the most vital aspects of life. Human beings always thrive on connection, love, intimacy and strong emotional and physical interaction with other humans. Building positive relationships with our peer groups, siblings’ friends and other family members are necessary to spread love and joy and that is equally important to enhance well-being.

Meaning: An important query for all living beings is why each of us is on this earth. To give meaning and purpose to this question is very important in order to attain fulfilment and happiness.

Accomplishments: Sense of Accomplishment can be generated in us when goals and ambitions in life help us to achieve what we want. We should always make realistic and achievable goals that can easily be met by putting in our efforts. Having accomplishments in life is important to push ourselves to thrive and flourish.

Carol Ryffs’ Model of Psychological Well-being:

Riffs’ segments of target mental prosperity are laid out independently beneath for clarification and illumination purposes.

Autonomy: Autonomy is the direction of one's own conduct through an inner locus of control (Ryff 1989b; Ryff and Keyes, 1995). A completely working individual has an abnormal state of inward assessment, evaluating the self on individual measures and accomplishments while not depending on the norms of others. They don't take a stab at underwriting from different people are centred around their own convictions and are less influenced by others individuals' thoughts. An abnormal state of self-governance recommends autonomy with a low level proposing worry over self-observation.

Personal growth:

Personal growth is simply the capacity to create and extend the self, to end up a completely working individual to self realizes and achieves objectives. To accomplish crest mental working one must keep on developing the self through development in different features of life (Ryff, 1989b). This expects one to ceaselessly advance and take care of issues in this way growing one's gifts capacities. Low self-improvement proposes a feeling of individual stagnation; do not have a feeling of extension or change after some time; feel exhausted and feel unfit to grow new states of mind of practices' about existence.

Environmental Mastery:

Environmental mastery alludes to picking and controlling the encompassing and envisioned condition through physical or mental activities. An abnormal state of condition authority reflects control of more than one setting, a low level is identified with failure to fruitful control more than one condition. Natural authority implies having the capacity to control complex ecological and life circumstances and to seize openings that forestall themselves. It regularly requires the capacity to venture out of one's customary range of familiarity when taking a stab at ideal brandishing execution.

Purpose in life: Purpose in life alludes to the apparent hugeness of one’s presence and includes the defining and coming to of objectives, which add to valuation forever. Emotional wellness incorporates mindfulness that one has a more prominent objective and reason throughout everyday life (Ryff, 1989b). Reason in life makes heading thereby killing depression.

Positive relations with others: Having positive relations with others is a basic part of the advancement of trusting and enduring connections and also having a place with a system of correspondence and support. A quiet and loose approach reflects development, prompts enhanced cooperation and better thought of others. While great relations result from the incomprehension of others, poor relations can cause dissatisfaction. Solid constructive relations propose warm, fulfilling and confiding involvement with another while on the opposite side powerless relations recommend disappointment in between individual connections.

Self–acceptance: Self-acceptance is the most repeating part of mental prosperity. It is a major element of emotional wellness and a component of ideal working. Solid levels of self-acknowledgement make inspirational disposition and enhanced fulfilment with life. Self-acknowledgment is a key segment of self-completion, improved mental working and advancement. It involves tolerating the over a significant time span and in addition keeping up the course for what's to come. A high self-acknowledgement recommends the uplifting state of mind towards oneself, acknowledges different viewpoints to oneself (both great and awful) while low self-acknowledgement proposes disillusioned about what has happened previously.