Psychological Wellness Paper

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Psychological wellness is a very important concept that one should take into consideration in order to improve one’s overall health. The World Health Organization (2012) states that in order to increase psychological health, one must focus on mental, physical and social well-being. A way one increase psychological health is by increasing one’s eudaimonic well-being. One with high eudaimonic well-being would be defined as someone who is living a fulfilled, virtuous and purposeful life. Researcher’s Ryan, Huta and Deci (2008) composed the Self-determination theory that states that by increasing one’s psychological needs of competence, autonomy and relatedness, eudaimonic well-being will also increase. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate

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