BUILDING THE CONCEPT OF HAPPINESS FOR ADULTS FROM PHENOMENOGRAPHY

There is a growing interest in psychology and social sciences to study happiness. Studies are predominantly of positivist epistemology where the concept typically is charged -ethic-extensively, ignoring the meaning of happiness to people. To unravel this, an observational, descriptive, transversal s...

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Autor principal:	Moyano-Díaz,Emilio
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad de Talca. Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos 2016
Materias:	Happiness adults phenomenography qualitative method
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description	There is a growing interest in psychology and social sciences to study happiness. Studies are predominantly of positivist epistemology where the concept typically is charged -ethic-extensively, ignoring the meaning of happiness to people. To unravel this, an observational, descriptive, transversal study of phenomenographic approach and the corresponding method -emic- are reported here. A non-random sample of faculty and personal staff of a University consisting of 164 Chilean adults of both sexes responded voluntarily and anonymously to a brief survey about happiness and their responses were categorized and graphed respectively, with the help of the NVivo and Campstools programs. It was obtained that happiness has a structure of meanings made up of five conceptions: state, have, achievement, be, well-being which are described, and from which a definition of happiness is proposed and finally, a suggestion on how to continue research in this area
author	Moyano-Díaz,Emilio
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title	BUILDING THE CONCEPT OF HAPPINESS FOR ADULTS FROM PHENOMENOGRAPHY
title_short	BUILDING THE CONCEPT OF HAPPINESS FOR ADULTS FROM PHENOMENOGRAPHY
title_full	BUILDING THE CONCEPT OF HAPPINESS FOR ADULTS FROM PHENOMENOGRAPHY
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publisher	Universidad de Talca. Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos
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BUILDING THE CONCEPT OF HAPPINESS FOR ADULTS FROM PHENOMENOGRAPHY

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