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 head of research at the Blekinge Centre of Competence, which is the Blekinge County Council’s research and development unit. The Centre works on innovations in health and practice through interdisciplinary scientific research, person-centered methods, community projects, and the dissemination of knowledge in order to increase the quality of life of people in Sweden. He is also an Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg and one of the leading researchers of the Network for Empowerment and Well-Being. He has over 250 publications including scientific articles, chapters, encyclopedia entries, and books.