Carol Ryff's model of psychological well being

Carol Ryff, in her seminal paper, "Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being." contrasts psychological well being with subjective well-being or hedonic well-being. Ryff attempted to combine different conceptions of well-being from the ancient Greek to the modern psychological such as theories of Individuation from Carl Jung, Self-actualization from Abraham Maslow and others.

Components

 * 1) Self-acceptance
 * 2) Personal growth
 * 3) Purpose in life
 * 4) Environmental mastery
 * 5) Autonomy
 * 6) Positive relations with others

Heritability
Individual differences in both overall Eudaimonia, identified loosely with self-control and in the facets of eudaimonia are heritable. Evidence from one study supports 5 independent genetic mechanisms underlying the Ryff facets of this trait, leading to a genetic construct of eudaimonia in terms of general self-control, and four subsidiary biological mechanisms enabling the psychological capabilities of purpose, agency, growth, and positive social relations.