Sources of Chinese well-being and its structural analysis

Well-being is a multi-faced concept, and researchers study this concept by different approaches. We adopted a bottom-up approach from collecting sources of well-being among participants in Taiwan by online questionnaires. Study 1, participants were asked to list five things that they were experienced. 281 participants showed 1376 well-being events after deleting personal trait or philosophies descriptions. Authors performed a qualitative analysis to develop a typology and found 19 major sources. Study 2, 174 participants were asked to categorize 19 well-being sources in their own way. Results show that Chinese well-being categories can be grouped into seven clusters; they are under the rubric “eudaimonia”, “positive relatedness”, “physical and psychological balance”, “leisure activities”, “positive emotion”, “environment”, and “life satisfaction”. Study 3, participants same as study 2 performed sources of well-being ranking tasks in order to their importance. First three important sources and last three not important sources are the same cross different gender and age groups. Potential theoretical and practical applications were discussed.