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Moving Beyond Disciplinary Silos Towards a Transdisciplinary Model of Wellbeing: An Invited Review

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Frontiers in Psychology, Volume: 12

Swansea University Authors: Jessica Mead, Zoe Fisher Orcid Logo, Andrew Kemp Orcid Logo

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The construct of wellbeing has been criticised as a neoliberal construction of western individualism that ignores wider systemic issues such as inequality and anthropogenic climate change. Accordingly, there have been increasing calls for a broader conceptualisation of wellbeing. Here we impose an i...

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