How are you doing these days?
Take a moment, and really think about it. Is your answer emotional, like “I’m feeling stressed,” or physical, like “I’m feeling worn down”? Or maybe your response falls somewhere on a scale from “abysmal,” let’s say, to “outstanding.”
For most people, there are many ways to assess well-being, and the way you introspect on it might even change from day-to-day. But from a scientific perspective, well-being can only be understood with a shared, theory- and evidence-based definition that implies reliable and valid ways of measuring it.
As we all navigate the ups and downs of a Covid-19 world, you may be tuning into your well-being and mental health more often than usual. You may find yourself interested in trying something new, like meditation or therapy. But how will you know if it works for you?
Measuring well-being is the link between how you feel and what you should do about it. As two professionals at Healthy Mind Innovations (an affiliated nonprofit with the neuroscience research center the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison) committed to translating science into tools to cultivate and measure well-being, measurement is always at the forefront of our work.
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