Abstract
Findings from the burgeoning study of personal well-being (PWB) are both interesting and important. The study of PWB is beginning to attract the attention of the media, laypersons and public policy practitioners. However, the ways in which PWB findings are prudentially relevant (i.e. related to well-being) are unclear and controversial. This is not a good situation for the study of PWB; in order for such findings to be used effectively and justifiably, we need a prudential framework that is widely acceptable. In this paper, I argue that a widely acceptable account of the prudential relevance of PWB must (at least for the time being) be theory-neutral with regards to the nature of well-being. Theories of well-being are controversial, and thereby not widely acceptable. I provide an account of the prudential relevance of PWB that does not rely on a particular theory of well-being. The theory-neutral account maintains that PWB tends to be (a) an indicator of well-being, (b) a value, and (c) a benefit. This account can provide us with widely acceptable (albeit limited) interpretations of findings from the study of PWB.
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