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| A person's instinctive response to a stimulus;characterized by a sense of arousal. Affect is considered the most basic element of feeling and often involves evaluation of a stimulus as good or bad |
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| Model developed by Keyes and Lopez in which mental health is defined as high levels of emotional, psychological, and social well-being and the absence of mental illness symptoms; the model acknowledges that well-being and mental-illness symptomology changes over time. |
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| A feeling state resulting from the appraisal of an external object as salient to our well-being. An emotion has a specific, "sharpened" quality, as it always has an object. |
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| Human flourishing, or happiness associated with living a life of virtue. |
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| According to Csikszantmihalyi, the pleasurable experience resulting from engagement in an interesting activity that properly matches or challenges a person's skills and abillities. |
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| General, free-floating feelings that last longer than an emotion. Mood is thought to be tied to expectations of future positive or negative effect. |
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| Freud's idea that humans seek to reduce tension by gratifying instinctive needs. He believed that well-being was the result of satisfied biological and psychological needs and that humans will seek gratification regardless of the consequence. |
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| Suggested by most models of emotion, the tendency to act in a specific manner that follows an emotion. The most famous specific action tendency is the "fight or flight" response, the theory of which suggest that, when confronted with a situation that elicits a negative emotion, humans and animals will act either by approaching (fight) or by retreating (flight) from the situation. |
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| A person's individual judgment about his or her current status in the world. Often used synonymously with happiness. |
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| The direction if affect:positive (pleasant) or negative (unpleasant). |
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