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  • 5 - Engagement in New Social Roles

  • from Part II - Interdomain Strategies to Increase Overall Life Satisfaction and Achieve Balance
  • M. Joseph Sirgy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Book:
    The Balanced Life
    Published online:
    21 April 2022
    Print publication:
    05 May 2022, pp 65-80

  • Summary

    This chapter describes how people engage in new roles and activities to help achieve life balance and maintain acceptable levels of wellbeing. This is explained through the principle of diminishing satisfaction. The chapter covers many strategies that people use in various life domains: health, love, family, material, social, work, leisure, and culture.

  • 3 - Engagement in Social Roles in Multiple Life Domains

  • from Part II - Interdomain Strategies to Increase Overall Life Satisfaction and Achieve Balance
  • M. Joseph Sirgy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Book:
    The Balanced Life
    Published online:
    21 April 2022
    Print publication:
    05 May 2022, pp 31-42

  • Summary

    This chapter focused on the notion that life balance can be achieved, at least partly, through engagement in social roles in work and nonwork domains. This is explained through the principle of satisfaction limits. Three strategies were described: (1) avoid putting all your egs in one basket, (2) contemplate the ideal life, and (3) assess how much time you spend in what role and reallocate time.