Концепция благополучия в общественных науках

Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены. 2024. № 6. С. 319–341.

Anikin V. A., Nagernyak M., Voronina N.

In 2025, the Prometheus Publish­ing House will publish a collective monograph Well­being and Development of Human Po­tential (eds. Ovcharova L. N., Anikin V. A.). The journal Monitoring of Public Opinion: Econom­ic and Social Changes presents an abridged version of the chapter devoted to approaches to conceptualizing the term well­being based on existing theoretical and empirical develop­ments in the Russian and foreign studies. In recent decades, the number of works on sub­jective well­being, including reviews, has in­creased significantly. Despite this, the scien­tific literature lacks a comprehensive analysis of the concept of well­being, including both its objective and subjective components. Even in the reviews, terminological ambiguity remains since a number of concepts close in meaning are used as synonyms for the term well­being, as well as due to differences in the profession­al field of the authors. Without claiming exclu­sivity, the authors of this article offer an inter­disciplinary attempt to generalize and classify the ways of conceptualizing well­being in the social sciences and systematize the experi­ence of Russian scientists from different fields of knowledge. The article proposes to consid­er five ways of conceptualization, namely: (1) well­being in the welfare economy; (2) well­be­ing as satisfaction of needs, (3) well­being as opportunities, (4) cognitive self­assessments of one's own life, (5) well­being viewed through affective assessments.

Keywords: качество жизни, субъективное благополучие, счастье, quality of life, happiness, subjective well-­being, objective well-­being, domains of well-­being, объективное благопо­лучие, сферы благополучия