Subjective measures of well-being are increasingly seen by scholars and policy makers as valuable tools to assess quality of life. accounts focus on people's experience of life in positive ways while accounts are concerned with realization of personal potential. However, to what extent do an "enjoyable" and a "flourishing" life overlap? Using an innovative clustering-and-projection technique (), the joint distributional patterns of multiple and well-being indicators were examined in a nationally representative longitudinal study of US adults (MIDUS).
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