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The distinction between objective and subjective wellbeing

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In this video we engage with the distinction between different types of wellbeing as used in formal social science research.

We distinguish eudaimonic approaches – that engage with a notion of wellbeing as living life autonomously – from so-called objective and subjective approaches. While objective approaches frame wellbeing as synonymous with the prevalence of a certain set of fixed characteristics of individuals or higher-level units, subjective approaches engage with either hedonic or cognitive evaluations of individuals themselves.

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