Understanding Subjective Well-Being from a Top Down Theory Approach

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10.2991/assehr.k.200130.103How to use a DOI?

Keywords

subjective well-being, top down theory approach

Abstract

This article is a part of a Master of Education’s thesis concerning on subjective well-being of teenage inmates who join an alternative education in prison. This article focuses on discussing subjective well-being based on a top down theory approach. In general, to look at the quality of life and subjective well-being is limited by accumulating hedonic momentary pleasures, that perspective is known as the bottom up theory approach. For this reason, there is a top down theory approach that views subjective well-being more broadly based on one’s perception of directional emotions. In this case, the perception is believed to explain subjective well-being, because the bottom-up theory approach that only limits the objective conditions is considered incapable of understanding subjective well-being that varies greatly from person to person. Then in the top down theory approach, humans can live and interpret every life event as a form of subjective well-being.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Moh Fikri Tanzil Mutaqin
AU  - Hani Yulindrasari
AU  - Tina Hayati Dahlan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/07
TI  - Understanding Subjective Well-Being from a Top Down Theory Approach
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Psychology and Pedagogy - "Diversity in Education" (ICEPP 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 154
EP  - 156
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200130.103
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200130.103
ID  - Mutaqin2020
ER  -