PERMA and Well-being Notes

Seligman proposed PERMA (Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment) as elements of well-being.
Goodman et al. (2017) provided evidence supporting PERMA as building blocks of well-being, with Subjective Well-Being (SWB) as the final common path.
The study found a high correlation ( $0.98$ ) between the PERMA-profiler and SWB.
Elements of PERMA correlated moderately highly with each other (mean = $0.61$ ).
It's argued that focusing on elements helps in building well-being through targeted interventions.

Goodman et al. (2017) data confirms that PERMA constitutes elements of well-being.
Those with one element of PERMA tend to have others to a similar degree.
Building happiness involves more than psychometrics; elements guide specific interventions.
A good theory of well-being elements aids in constructing well-being.

Elements contribute to well-being (confirmed by $0.98$ correlation with SWB for PERMA).
Elements are pursued for their own sake.
The list of elements should be exclusive and exhaustive.

Each element of PERMA can be defined and measured independently.
High correlations between elements do not necessarily disqualify them, due to possible causal connections.
Decisions should account for real-world factors beyond self-reports.
Objective indices and longitudinal studies are needed.