Quality of life: Flourishing in the work context
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Quality of life: Flourishing in the work context Adriane Fabricio 1 & Fabíola Kaczam 2 & Sandra Leonara Obregon 1 & Damiana Machado de Almeida 1 Luis Felipe Dias Lopes 1 & Claudimar Pereira da Veiga 3 & Wesley Vieira da Silva 4
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Accepted: 17 November 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract This article aims to examine the state of the art of research on flourishing in the context of work. To achieve the objective, we conducted a systematic review using two databases from 1960 to 2019. In conducting the research, we adopted the Tranfield, Denyer, and Smart protocol, which covers three stages: i) planning the review; ii) conducting the review; iii) dissemination of knowledge. We screened 1545 studies and included 126 to synthesize. The results showed that flourishing is approached concerning derivative terms such as well-being, psychological well-being, and mental health, rather than precisely as flourishing per se. Through content analysis, we developed a typology based on three clusters: “Human Flourishing,” “Mental Health,” and “Positive Psychology.” We found that most publications focus on investigating human flourishing, not individuals’ flourishing from their work perspective, indicating that the international scientific community has hardly explored this theme. The information presented may serve as a scientific basis to develop future research, given the theme’s recent increase in interest. Keywords Flourishing at work . Mental health . Psychological well-being . Positive psychology
Introduction Psychology, as mentioned by Schaufeli and Bakker (2003), during most of its history, focused on human disease processes; analyzing the symptoms, origins, and manifestations; looking for ways to reverse them; and providing better care in terms of health, consequently improving life quality (Okoro & Urama, 2016; Wong, Cheung, & Wong, 2019). In positive psychology, flourishing emerges as the sum of feeling good and acting effectively, being considered a measure of subjective well-being (Huppert & So, 2009; Mesurado, Crespo,
Rodríguez, Debeljuh, & Carlier, 2018). Like this, the definition of a good life (Hagell, Reimer, & Nyberg, 2009) and, therefore, flourishing includes happiness, health and longevity (Diener & Chan, 2011). For Seligman (2011), a good life is seen as enjoyable, engaged, connected, meaningful and fulfilling. In the work context, Diener and Chan (2011) described flourishing as the synthesis of positive feelings and positive functioning, characterized by the psychological and social adjustment of the employee to the work environment in which he or she is inserted (Chaves, Ferreira, Pereira, & Freitas,
* Claudimar Pereira da Veiga [email protected] Adriane Fabricio [email protected] Fabíola Kaczam [email protected] Sandra Leonara Obregon [email protected] Damiana Machado de Almeida [email protected] Luis Felipe Dias Lopes [email protected]
Wesley Vieira da Silva [email protected] 1
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