Book contents
- The Balanced Life
- The Balanced Life
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Interdomain Strategies to Increase Overall Life Satisfaction and Achieve Balance
- Part III Interdomain Strategies to Increase Domain Satisfaction and Achieve Balance
- 6 Integrating Domains with High Satisfaction
- 7 Compartmentalizing Domains with High Dissatisfaction
- 8 Reallocating Resources across Domains
- 9 Reducing Role Conflict
- 10 Using Skills, Experiences, and Resources in One Role for Other Roles
- Part IV Epilogue
- References
- Index
7 - Compartmentalizing Domains with High Dissatisfaction
from Part III - Interdomain Strategies to Increase Domain Satisfaction and Achieve Balance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2022
Book contents
- The Balanced Life
- The Balanced Life
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Interdomain Strategies to Increase Overall Life Satisfaction and Achieve Balance
- Part III Interdomain Strategies to Increase Domain Satisfaction and Achieve Balance
- 6 Integrating Domains with High Satisfaction
- 7 Compartmentalizing Domains with High Dissatisfaction
- 8 Reallocating Resources across Domains
- 9 Reducing Role Conflict
- 10 Using Skills, Experiences, and Resources in One Role for Other Roles
- Part IV Epilogue
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter focuses on how people create psychological walls around life domains that contain negative affect to prevent spillover of these bad feelings into other life domains. Several segmentation strategies are desribed: temporal, physical, behavior, and communication.
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- The Balanced LifeUsing Strategies from Behavioral Science to Enhance Wellbeing, pp. 98 - 115Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022