Contentment

Satisfaction, according to the explanatory dictionary Duden: a) to be internally balanced and require nothing more than you have; b ) to have the given conditions, benefits, etc. to agree, nothing to complain about. Adjektivisch one is satisfied ( as with himself and the world).

The increased satisfaction with it, if you satisfy one (about moral ) duty under victims has done is the satisfaction. You need not make known to the outside, unlike the pride. Appears pride in himself too cheap, he is criticized as complacency.

Antonym to satisfaction is dissatisfaction.

Satisfaction as a virtue

Satisfaction or contentment as intent and belief is often supported religious as about the folk song why should I have a lot of money and property, / When I am satisfied by Johann Martin Miller (1776, soundtrack by Christian Gottlob Neefe, also 1776) refer is.

Satisfaction as the goal

The satisfaction may be in the process of coping with life, a goal of man, which can lead to a satisfaction success. It is a goal that would be discovered on the one hand and the other hand to the realization of efforts. The satisfaction does not occur in life automatically, but they must be in constant confrontation with the dissatisfaction claim. Who slips into the total dissatisfaction will end in disaster. Ultimately, one man will be more satisfied and happy who knows how to control his inner experiences or to control and handle negative experiences positive.

Satisfaction, illness and psychotherapy success

To be satisfied is an important part of the biological, psychological and social well -being, health and quality of life played a decisive role in general. Especially in vocational education and satisfaction characterizes an individual's success with much. Satisfied people generally form from little or no symptoms. Seen satisfaction can also be used as a criterion for successful psychotherapy ( performance review, evaluation, quality assurance; Sponsel, 1984). In order to professionally be happy to help (self ) reflexive behavior.

Survey of satisfaction

For years, at EU level ( Euro Barometer Survey) and now increasingly queried in the UK Overall satisfaction with both life as well as individual aspects. Objectives of the surveys this satisfaction indicators ( " Subjective Well-Being " ) are there to learn more about the factors for satisfaction and long term, to increase citizen satisfaction, reached directly and can be measured. A final analysis of the data collected is still pending.

In Bhutan, a state commission for the gross national happiness regularly determine the satisfaction of the population. The four criteria fields of Gross National Happiness ( Gross national happiness ) are a socially equitable social and economic development, the promotion of cultural values ​​, environmental protection and good governance structures. There is debate about giving the increase of gross national happiness constitutional status.

Problems with surveys

The main problem with surveys and surveys on satisfaction is based on the subjectivity of the definition, respectively, in the subjectivity of sensation " satisfaction ". Therefore, many researchers define (s) in the area of ​​customer or job satisfaction this for simplicity as " the absence of dissatisfaction " with the dissatisfaction is in turn defined as " non-fulfillment of expectations ". Is asked about the expectations of the individual and the degree of fulfillment of these expectations. If the expectations are not only met, but exceeded, a sense of satisfaction sets.

Of course, care must be taken in surveys of satisfaction to compliance with the fundamental requirements of scientific rigor in qualitative or quantitative research methods so that the results are meaningful. Most such surveys on the internet or in magazines can not meet these requirements.

In marketing there is, inter alia, the method CSI (Customer Satisfaction Index, or DZG, ​​service satisfaction), which attempts to measure the satisfaction of customers. The survey is based on the simultaneous determination of the quality (assessment of performance ) and the survey of expectations for a property or performance of the respondents. The algorithmic combination of the two results gives then the value of the satisfaction.

Proverbs

  • " Compare yourself with better-off, and you're unhappy. Compare yourself with worse-off, and you have more than enough. " (China)
  • " Never be satisfied with you, except perhaps episodically, so your satisfaction only serves to strengthen you to new discontent. " ( Christian Morgenstern )
  • " The comparison is the end of happiness and the beginning of discontent. " ( Søren Kierkegaard )
  • " Most people make themselves merely by exaggerated claims on the fate dissatisfied. " ( Wilhelm von Humboldt )
  • "People just like the animals are rarely satisfied with what they have and to hold the chunks for the best, they snatch another. " ( Ludwig Thoma )

Literature (selection )

  • The Journal of Happiness Studies, ISSN 1389-4978
  • Sponsel, Rudolf: life and self- satisfaction as psychotherapy performance review. Practical system of psychological treatment research. IEC, Erlangen 1984
  • Veenhoven, Ruut: Is happiness relative? Considerations to happiness, mood and satisfaction from a psychological perspective. Report Psychology, Vol 16, May 1991, pp. 14-20. - ( Text available here )
  • Veenhoven, Ruut: Life satisfaction of citizens. An Indicator for the ' liveability ' of societies? In: Noll, H.-H. (Ed.): Social Reporting in Germany. Concepts, methods and results for life areas and population groups. Juventa Verlag, Munich 1997, pp. 267-293, ISBN 3-7799-0396-2. - ( Text available here )
  • Veenhoven, Ruut: The Return of inequality in modern society? The distribution of life satisfaction in the EU countries van 1973-1996 In: . Wolfgang Glatzer / Roland Habich / Karl -Ulrich Maier ( eds. ), Social Change and Social duration of observation. Festschrift for Wolfgang Zapf, Leske Budrich, Opladen 2002, pp. 273-294, ISBN 3-8100-3368-5

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