Towards new understandings of happiness and well-being : review and prospective analysis

Zeneida Rocío Ceballos Villada, ; Andrés Felipe Villacorte-Guaranguay, ; Andrés Felipe Martínez Patiño Martínez Patiño , ; Elena Mercedes Zubieta, ; Marcela Muratori, ; Erick Ibarra Cruz, ; Rosa Elba Domínguez Bolaños Domínguez Bolaños, ; Nancy Esperanza Flechas Chaparro Flechas Chaparro, ; Claudia Carolina Cabrera Gómez, ; Astrid Sofía Suárez Barros, ; María Elena Garassini Chávez, ; Constanza Abadía García, ; Alfredo Rojas Otálora, ; Magda Beatriz Escobar Benavides,

Synopsis

The Latin American Network for the Study and Intervention in Happiness and Well-being has been working since 2021, made up of a group of academics and researchers from Colombia linked to the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, Universidad Mariana, from Mexico to the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, from Argentina the Universidad Católica de Argentina and the Universidad de Buenos Aires and from Venezuela from the Universidad Metropolitana.

In 2022, the first book called “Happiness and human well-being: views from reflection, research and intervention in Latin America” was published, which advanced understandings from research and reflections on happiness and well-being from scientific foundations.

Based on this first experience, and the conversation “What is Happiness? Discussions from science”, and the arguments presented at this event, gave rise to the initiative to present this second book called “Towards new Understandings of Happiness and Well-being: Review and Prospective”, this book presents seven chapters in which positions are developed based on the scientific review to understand happiness and well-being and the relationship with such relevant aspects as grief and pain, whether well-being is learned or taught, social correlates are presented and finally a prospective exercise of the study of well-being and happiness is presented, to deepen and strengthen the academic arguments in the bet to become a reference for the study of well-being and happiness.

Keywords: happiness, wellbeing, psychological well-being, subjective well-being, positive psychology

Hacia nuevas comprensiones de la felicidad y el bienestar

ISBN-13 (15)

978-628-7786-51-6

How to Cite

Ceballos Villada, Z. R., Villacorte-Guaranguay, A. F., Martínez Patiño , A. F. M. P., Zubieta, E. M., Muratori, M., Ibarra Cruz, E., Domínguez Bolaños, R. E. D. B., Flechas Chaparro, N. E. F. C., Cabrera Gómez, C. C., Suárez Barros, A. S., Garassini Chávez, M. E., Abadía García, C., Rojas Otálora, A., & Escobar Benavides, M. B. (2025). Towards new understandings of happiness and well-being: review and prospective analysis. Sello Editorial UNAD. https://doi.org/10.22490/UNAD.9786287786516

Published

July 31, 2025