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Positive Balance

A Theory of Well-Being and Positive Mental Health

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  1. M. Joseph Sirgy

    1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

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  • Lays the foundation for a new theory of well-being integrating many disparate concepts
  • Gives a hierarchical perspective of positive mental health guided by the concept of positive balance
  • Speaks to a wide readership, from wellbeing researchers to mental health practitioners

Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 80)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. The Theory of Positive Balance in Brief

    • M. Joseph Sirgy
    Pages 1-24

  3. Positive Balance at the Physiological Level: Positive and Negative Neurotransmitters

    • M. Joseph Sirgy
    Pages 25-40

  4. Positive Balance at the Emotional Level: Hedonic Well-Being

    • M. Joseph Sirgy
    Pages 41-52

  5. Positive Balance at the Cognitive Level: Domain Satisfaction

    • M. Joseph Sirgy
    Pages 53-71

  6. Positive Balance at the Meta-cognitive Level: Life Satisfaction

    • M. Joseph Sirgy
    Pages 73-93

  7. Positive Balance at the Developmental Level: Eudaimonia

    • M. Joseph Sirgy
    Pages 95-123

  8. Positive Balance at the Social-Ecological Level: Socio-Eudaimonia

    • M. Joseph Sirgy
    Pages 125-144

  9. Concluding Thoughts

    • M. Joseph Sirgy
    Pages 145-156
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About this book

The book provides a new theory of well-being designed to integrate many disparate concepts of well-being, such as subjective well-being, personal happiness, mental well-being, emotional well-being, psychological well-being, hedonic well-being, social well-being, life satisfaction, domain satisfaction, and eudaimonia. It lays the foundation for a new a theory of mental well-being based on a hierarchical perspective of positive mental health and guided by the concept of positive balance.

Written by a well-known expert in the field, this book addresses the issue of positive balance related to physiological, emotional, cognitive, meta-cognitive, developmental and social-ecological levels of an individual and analyses the factors at each level that contribute to an individual’s positive mental health experience. It discusses in detail the effects of neurochemicals such as dopamine, serotonin, or cortisol; positive and negative affect; satisfaction in salient and multiple life domains vis-à-vis  dissatisfaction in life domains; positive versus negative evaluations about one’s life using certain standards of comparison; positive psychological traits of personal growth and intrinsic motivation, etc. vis-à-vis negative traits like pessimism and impulsiveness; and perceived social resources like social contribution and social actualization vis-à-vis perceived constraints like exclusion and ostracism. This original work is of interest to students, researchers and practitioners of quality of life and wellbeing studies, positive psychology, developmental psychology and mental health..


Authors and Affiliations

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

    M. Joseph Sirgy

About the author

M. Joseph Sirgy is a management psychologist (Ph.D., U/Massachusetts) and the Virginia Tech Real Estate Professor of Marketing. He has published extensively in the area of marketing, business ethics, and quality of life (QOL). He is the author/editor of many books related to quality of life. He co-founded the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) in 1995, served as its Executive Director/Treasurer from 1995 to 2011, and as Development Director (2011-present). In 1998, he received the Distinguished Fellow Award from ISQOLS. In 2003, ISQOLS honored him as the Distinguished QOL Researcher for research excellence and a record of lifetime achievement in QOL research. He also served as President of the Academy of Marketing Science from which he received the Distinguished Fellow Award in the early 1990’s and the Harold Berkman Service Award in 2007 (lifetime achievement award for serving the marketing professoriate). In the early 2000’s, he helped co-found the Macromarketing Society and the Community Indicators Consortium and has served as a board member of these two professional associations. He co-founded the journal, Applied Research in Quality of Life, the official journal of the ISQOLS, in 2005 and served as editor (1995-present). He also served editor of the QOL section in the Journal of Macromarketing (1995-2015) and editor in-chief (2020-present). He received the Virginia Tech’s Pamplin Teaching Excellence Award/Holtzman Outstanding Educator Award and University Certificate of Teaching Excellence in 2008. In 2010, ISQOLS honored him for excellence and lifetime service to the society. In 2010 he won the Best Paper Award in the Journal of Happiness Studies for his theory of the balanced life; in 2011 also he won the Best Paper Award in the Journal of Travel Research for his goal theory of leisure travel satisfaction. In 2012 he was awarded the EuroMed Management Research Award for outstanding achievements and groundbreaking contributions towell-being and quality-of-life research. He also edited ISQOLS/Springer book series on Handbooks in Quality-of-Life Research and Community Quality-of-Life Indicators (Best Practices). He is currently one of the series editors of the Springer book series Human Well-Being and Policy Making. In 2019 the Macromarketing Society honored him with the Robert W. Nason Award for extraordinary and sustained contributions to the field of macromarketing through QOL research.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Positive Balance

  • Book Subtitle: A Theory of Well-Being and Positive Mental Health

  • Authors: M. Joseph Sirgy

  • Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40289-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40288-4Published: 19 June 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40291-4Published: 20 June 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40289-1Published: 18 June 2020

  • Series ISSN: 1387-6570

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 156

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Quality of Life Research, Positive Psychology, Psychiatry

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