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Balanced Life: Using Strategies from Behavioral Science to Enhance Wellbeing

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The balanced life is a state of equally moderate-to-high levels of satisfaction in important and multiple life domains that contribute to overall life satisfaction. This book strives to improve the reader's understanding of what the balanced life is, and how it can be both achieved and maintained. Its primary goal is therefore to identify the major principles of life balance, and to introduce a comprehensive construct of the balanced life reflective of these principles. It discusses how life balance substantially contributes to subjective well-being – defined as life satisfaction, a preponderance of positive over negative feelings, and absence of ill-being – and explores strategies to attain life balance. It argues that achieving life balance, through manipulating one's thoughts and taking concrete action, will lead to increased personal happiness. Aimed at professional, academic, and lay audiences, this book is grounded in scientific studies related to work-life balance and the balanced life.

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  • Outlines strategies for achieving life balance to increase personal happiness
  • Offers a timely contribution to the discussion of work-life balance and work-family interface
  • Appeals to a broad audience ranging from academics in human resource management or social psychology, to science journalists and life coaches, to professionals with high work and family demands
Author: Sirgy Joseph
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781009124546
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2022

Part I. Introduction
1. Life balance: setting the stage and understanding the language
2. The imbalanced life
Part II. Inter-domain strategies to increase overall life satisfaction and achieve balance
3. Engagement in social roles in multiple life domain
4. Engagement in roles in health, love, family, material, social, work, and culture domains
5. Engagement in new social roles
Part III. Inter-domain strategies to increase domain satisfaction and achieve balance
6. Integrating domains with high satisfaction
7. Compartmentalizing domains with high dissatisfaction
8. Reallocating resources across domain
9. Reducing role conflict
10. Using skills, experiences, and resources in one role for other roles
11. Concluding thoughts.

M. Joseph Sirgy is a management psychologist. He has published extensively in the area of business administration, business ethics, and quality of life. He co-founded the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, the Macromarketing Society, and the Community Indicators Consortium. Over the years, he has received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and service to the management discipline.

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