Choose your favorite model of well-being. Now try to find any mention of sexuality in it. Tripartite model of well-being? Nope. This framework suggests that your life is about the frequency of ...

According to new research, people living in poor countries have a greater sense of meaning in their lives than those living in wealthy countries. These new findings, published in the Association for ...

Whether or not you’re aware of it, the need for your life to have meaning is at the roots of the motivation that makes you uniquely human. Positive psychologists, beginning with the likes of Abraham ...

Want to live in a directed, resolute way? To always know why you’re doing what you’re doing? There’s a simple way to make your dreams come true: Go find the meaning of life! People who believe that ...

Steve Taylor does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Lisa A Williams receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The pursuit of happiness and health is a popular endeavour, as the preponderance of self-help books would attest. Yet it is also ...

Campbell Martin, a volunteer working for the Food Depot, hands out groceries at the Santa Fe Place Mall in Santa Fe, NM, last month. (Ramsay de Give for The Washington Post) Perspective by Marta ...

Mahbooba, a 22-year-old Afghan refugee in Pakistan, has often struggled to continue her education while also helping to provide for her family. She explains what has motivated her to persevere and of ...

A study of 9,050 English people with an average age of 65 found that the people with the greatest well-being were 30 percent less likely to die during the average eight and a half year follow-up ...