Love of life and its association with well‐being in Iranian psychiatric outpatients

Abstract

More generally, Abdel-Khalek (2007, 2013a) has argued that love of life is a sub-component of the construct of subjective well-being and it is relevant to the disciplines of positive psychology and health psychology. Love of life is defined as a positive evaluation of one's own life and involves holding on strongly to life, grasping at life, having a pleasurable attachment to life and having an appreciation for life. However, the love of life concept is not related to the Freudian concept of Eros or the life instinct (see Campbell, 1996). Research has shown that love of life is positively associated with extraversion and negatively associated with psychoticism and neuroticism (Abdel-Khalek, 2013a). Love of life is associated with having