An individual’s wellbeing is always changing. Wellbeing it is dependent mostly on age, gender and spatial variations. However changes in wealth, income and employment also play their own parts when it comes to both physical and psychological wellbeing. These financial controls can be changed by a range of factors including the government, various policies, personal choices and luck. Interestingly monetary gains also influence social wellbeing; people gain a sense of wellbeing from beating others in their relative area, be that physically near them in a neighborhood or from similar socio-economic backgrounds. The current National-led government is very focused on economic growth and, one would assume the wellbeing of all New Zealand’s citizens.
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Because wellbeing is very personal, subjective and intangible it is difficult to define, quantify or measure it. Ryff, in her paper on attempting to define psychological wellbeing, uses five measures to attempt to quantify it. The first measure is the ‘affect balance scale’, this scale is about calculating how positive or negative a person is. Life satisfaction is the second measure; self-esteem, the third and morale is the fourth are, Locus of control is the fifth and final measure of wellbeing, this measure can be split into three types of control; control over one’s own life, control over political institutions and control over having a chance no matter what socio-economic background one is from (Ryff, 1989). Some of these well-being controls are simply unchangeable, general positivity or negativity of an individual often relies on their personal life experiences. Sometimes the wellbeing features can be ensured for the general …show more content…
This doesn’t mean much when it comes to changes in wellbeing. The reason for this is because the national debt being paid off does matter, but citizens wellbeing is more controlled by factors within the country, the gap between the rich and the poor [] for example has a larger impact on the rich and poor’s wellbeing rather than paying off a debt they simply aren’t feeling. By focusing mainly on financial impacts on wellbeing the government has actually made finance more important than other values such as family or environmental. We can see that this happened between two different tribes on central Africa? One valued the families more so large families had a high status while the other tribe that lived in the same area and shared the same clothing valued monetary goods more so they would work harder to acquire goods that would lead to higher status (Jordan, 2008). From the dates of the articles and their analysis of economic factors on wellbeing it seems there is a trend of economic having more of an impact on people’s wellbeing
Because wellbeing is very personal, subjective and intangible it is difficult to define, quantify or measure it. Ryff, in her paper on attempting to define psychological wellbeing, uses five measures to attempt to quantify it. The first measure is the ‘affect balance scale’, this scale is about calculating how positive or negative a person is. Life satisfaction is the second measure; self-esteem, the third and morale is the fourth are, Locus of control is the fifth and final measure of wellbeing, this measure can be split into three types of control; control over one’s own life, control over political institutions and control over having a chance no matter what socio-economic background one is from (Ryff, 1989). Some of these well-being controls are simply unchangeable, general positivity or negativity of an individual often relies on their personal life experiences. Sometimes the wellbeing features can be ensured for the general …show more content…
This doesn’t mean much when it comes to changes in wellbeing. The reason for this is because the national debt being paid off does matter, but citizens wellbeing is more controlled by factors within the country, the gap between the rich and the poor [] for example has a larger impact on the rich and poor’s wellbeing rather than paying off a debt they simply aren’t feeling. By focusing mainly on financial impacts on wellbeing the government has actually made finance more important than other values such as family or environmental. We can see that this happened between two different tribes on central Africa? One valued the families more so large families had a high status while the other tribe that lived in the same area and shared the same clothing valued monetary goods more so they would work harder to acquire goods that would lead to higher status (Jordan, 2008). From the dates of the articles and their analysis of economic factors on wellbeing it seems there is a trend of economic having more of an impact on people’s wellbeing