Ontological Well-Being (Life Project)

There has been an increase in the emphasis on the positive feelings and strengths of individuals in the mental health by the emergence of positive psychology approach. Subjective well-being, one of the most important concepts of positive psychology; that consists of life satisfaction, positive and negative emotional components, and is considered as an emotional and cognitive assessment of the individual's life. The concept of ontological well-being, apart from subjective well-being, focuses on the evaluation of one's own life as a project and is the evaluation of life with the consideration of the past, the future, and the present. In this review, "ontological well-being" will be examined in various dimensions as a contemporary subject and several suggestions will be presented to researchers who share this perspective