ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Well-Being and Cooking Behavior: Using the Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (PERMA) Model as a Theoretical Framework.
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- PERMA well-being and innovative work behaviour : A systematic literature review.F1000Research · 2023Pooled it
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- Effect of PERMA Model on Anxiety, Depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Quality of Life in Patients With Scar Plastic Surgery After Burn.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2026Article
- Let's Get Cooking: a mixed methods evaluation of a programme delivering culinary education via a network of cookery clubs across England.Public health nutrition · 2026Article
- Evolutionary Mismatch, Stress, and Competition: Making Sense of Psychosocial Problems in the Polycrisis Era.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Cooking for others is food for the soul: Consistent momentary, but mixed trait-level well-being benefits for home cooks.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2026Article
- Association between exposure to a PERMA model-based positive psychology intervention and levels of psychological distress and compliance behaviors in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a quasi-experimental study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- "International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- STEM Students' Perceptions of Classical Reading: A Q-Methodology Study on Well-Being-Related Experiences.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Tacit Knowledge in Cooking: A Key to Teaching and Integrating Cooking as a Practice.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2025Article
- Is Involvement in Food Tasks Associated with Psychosocial Health in Adolescents? The EHDLA Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Content validation of the teacher food and nutrition-related health and wellbeing questionnaire, a Delphi study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Exploring Students' Learning Experiences Under the China-Korea Cooperative Teaching Model: A Positive Psychology Perspective.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Nourishing Holistic Well-Being: The Role of Family Dynamics and Family Cooking.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Addressing schoolteacher food and nutrition-related health and wellbeing: a scoping review of the food and nutrition constructs used across current research.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
- An Assessment of the Reliability and Validity of the PERMA Well-Being Scale for Adult Undergraduate Students in an Open and Distance Learning Context.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Building the Positive Emotion-Resilience-Coping Efficacy Model for COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Exploring the Positive User Experience Possibilities Based on Product Emotion Theory: A Beverage Unmanned Retail Terminal Case.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The prevalence of psychosocial distress is increasing in the United States. At the same time, the American default lifestyle has steadily displaced household food production with industrial food production, despite increased cultural interest in cooking. An important focus of cooking research to date has been on cooking's association with nutrition and dietary quality. Less focus has been placed on how cooking might foster the qualities that allow for mitigation of psychosocial distress and promote well-being. Rooted in its evolutionary role in the human experience, cooking requires skills and knowledge that have the capacity to encourage aspects of well-being as described by Seligman as flourishing. Evidence for a beneficial role of cooking in psychosocial health exists, but the exploration is limited, potentially due to lack of a theoretical context to explain these benefits. From this perspective, we review the current literature showing the application of Seligman's prominent well-being model, Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (PERMA), to cooking, defined as the activity related to the preparation of food or a meal. We propose that the PERMA model as applied to cooking may function as a theoretical framework to explore psychosocial outcomes associated with cooking. Broader application of this approach may also help to further the application of positive psychology in the developing literature around psychosocial health and nutrition-related chronic diseases.
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