Theoretical Construction On The Model Of Experienced Well-being

The goal of all human being's efforts lies in the gain of happiness. Psychology lays particular emphasis on well-being about the study of happiness. Well-being is individuals'satisfaction to their life quality or status. As a psychological activity ultimately pursued by human being, it obviously has its own psychological cultural attributes which are shown as the following two aspects: One is individuals'experiencing method to well-being must be molded by their own culture. Another is the investigation methods, theoretical construction and research methods to well-being carried out by psychology must be molded by their own culture as well. In other words, individual's understanding for well-being under different cultures might be limited to his own culture framework, while psychologists growing under different cultures might see the well-being with limited perspective through the culture framework. The best method is to thoroughly probe the psychological cultural attributes of well-being and then conduct an indigenous and original psychology study to well-being with comparison and communication.The study about well-being in western psychology is influenced by western culture. The exterior molding of well-being under research orientation of western scientism psychology pays attention to the study of exterior actuating mechanism of well-being. Cognitive view emphasizes cognition factors'decisive effect during the process of individuals'gaining well-being. The view of sub consciousness of well-being understands human-being's well-being from the point of view of non-well-being under the orientation of western humanism psychological research, while the humanistic view understands well-being from human being's inherent potential. Transpersonal psychology starts to focus on the relationship between spiritual dimension and well-being. Positive psychology which has just emerged put forward such theoretical models as subjective well-being, psychological well-being and social well-being one after another. Although at present a great deal of research material about well-being from western psychology has been accumulated, there are some fatal puzzles and insurmountable limitations among them, which are as follows: 1. How to go back to Hellenic nature in the study of well-being.2.How to realize physical and mental unity in the study of well-being.3.How to deal with ego in the study of well-being.4. How to realize the integration of cognition,affection and will in the study of well-being.Some thoughts about well-being is mainly embodied in the thought of"Le"in Chinese traditional psychology, such as Confucianismt's"Le of Confucius and Hui's",Taoist's"the highest Le",Buddhist's"the Le of Nirvana", which all use"Le"to manifest a perfect survival status and psychological experience in life. The features possessed by the thought of"Le"in Chinese traditional psychology are as follows: 1."Le"derives from an inner affection experience after the realm has been constantly promoted.2.'Le"is an integrated structure combining cognition, affection, will, but among the three, affection is the decisive factor which integrates the three ones. 3."Le"is a kind of emotional enjoyment gained only by constant self-transcendence.There are many differences in terms of psychological cultural attributes between the thought of"Le"in Chinese traditional psychology and the study about well-being in western psychology, which are embodied as follows: 1. The former one focuses on the sollen of well-being;while the later one pays more attention to actuality of well-being.2. The former one focuses on the analysis on the psychological status of the integration of cognition, affection and will; while the later one focuses on the separate introduction to cognition, affection and will.3. The first contains distinct the meaning of longitudinally promoted Chinese culture;while the second one emphasizes Color of horizontal comparison which western culture pay attention to.4 The first one emphasizes well-being's inner required feature derived from"mind";while the second one pays more attention to its outer required feature derived from exterior actuating.5.The first one holds the highest level of individuals'well-being is marked by the limitation of self- transcendence; while the second one always regards ego as the soliddest foundation of well-being in the study of well-being.The model on experienced well-being is constructed in China by systemizing the inner logical clue and research content on well-being study under the background of western psychology, exploring and introspecting the thought of"le"in Chinese traditional psychology and based on the conclusion of the comparative study on"le"and well-being in Chinese and western psychology respectively.The experienced well-being is a kind of peacefully comfortable psychological experience through the individual's realization on and obtainment from natural law. It is inner sentiment experience obtained from the process of the continuous accomplishment and realization on the experienced consciousness (mainly referring to emotional awareness), constantly promoting the individual's spirit and it characterizes with hierarchy. The theory of the experienced well-being holds the individual's well-being is a process of keeping a dynamic balance during his pursuing both physical and mental peaceful comfort; a process of fitting the individual with himself, others and the nature and a process of constantly realizing emotion transcendence starting with the individual's inward feeling. The ascending order as to the individual's well-being is well-being of in concordance with self,well-being of in concordance with others,well-being of in concordance with nature. The inner driving force which causes the three levels constantly rise is the individual's inward affection.Consulting the study on well-being in western psychology and taking the thought of"Le"in Chinese traditional psychology as the theoretical origin, the theoretical model of the experienced well-being constructs the primitive theory on well-being in the mainland of China. The theoretical construction is only an attempt on the theoretical construction of the localized well-being in China and the writer expects the appearance of more localized theories on well-being.