The Welleye: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding and Promoting Wellbeing.

Paul Dolan,Laura Kudrna,Kate Laffan

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.716572

Abstract

We present the Welleye – a novel and conceptually clear framework that shows how attention links the objective circumstances of people’s lives and selves to how they spend their time and feel day to day. While existing wellbeing frameworks in policy contain many of the factors included in the Welleye, they all lack attention as the “lens” that determines the impact of these factors on how people feel. Policymakers and organizations can use the Welleye to better understand how people are faring and design and evaluate interventions aimed at making people better off.

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Edited by: Changiz Mohiyeddini, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, United StatesReviewed by: Ilona Boniwell, Positran, France Dee Warmath, University of Georgia, United StatesSpecialty section: This article was submitted to Health Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in PsychologyReceived: May 2021 Accepted: September 2021Published: 29 October 2021Citation: Dolan P, Laffan K and Kudrna L (2021) The Welleye: A ConceptualFramework for Understanding and Promoting Wellbeing.Front
Future research should consider capturing where attention is directed as people go about their daily lives and map this directly to their flow of experiential SWB (ESWB) over time
There are many different wellbeing frameworks in policy, but none of them appropriately consider the role of attention

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INTRODUCTION

Edited by: Changiz Mohiyeddini, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, United States. Through the lens of the Welleye, policymakers should be concerned with people’s circumstances, selves, and activities only insofar as they affect how people feel As these relationships are determined by how these factors shape what people attend to, policymakers should consider this central pathway in deciding what policy should to target and how. The Welleye can inform organizational management by wellbeing to better understand it and design and evaluate highlighting people’s circumstances, selves, and time-use as interventions aimed at promoting it It should be used within a wider implementation framework that considers in detail how interventions are developed, implemented, and evaluated (Damschroder et al, 2009). Future research should consider capturing where attention is directed as people go about their daily lives and map this directly to their flow of ESWB over time

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