The Affective Profiles Model: 20 Years of Research and Beyond

This timely volume provides an up-to-date exploration of the affective profiles model, a person-centered means of understanding the affective system.  It presents the etiology underpinning the affective system and compares the model with other existing personality models, such as the Big Five Model, and the Cloninger’s Biopsychosocial Model.  Most important, it examines the affective profiles model in relation to well-being, which includes life satisfaction, as well as psycho-logical health.  As such, it illuminates the problems of depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders.  Based on a wealth of longitudinal, cross-cultural and intervention studies, this book offers a critical view of the affective profiles model that will enrich both further research and clinical practice.

Danilo Garcia, Ph.D. (in psychology in 2012), is an Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg (2015) and works at Linköping University and Lund University. He is also one of the founders and the head of research of the International Network for Well-Being, a network of senior and junior researchers and students interested in the Science of Well-Being. The International Network for Well-Being works on innovations in health and practice through interdisciplinary scientific research, person-centered methods, community projects, and the dissemination of knowledge to promote well-being. Dr. Garcia has over 350 publications including scientific articles, chapters, encyclopedia entries, and books.