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Well-being and cooking behavior: Using the positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment (perma) model as a theoretical framework
Psychosocial distress is on the rise in the United States. Industrial food production progressively replaced food produced in households as part of the salient lifestyle in America, in spite of an observed rise in culinary interests. Current research in cooking fixated on the relationship between cooking and nutritive and/or dietary properties, however, the benefits to psychological and overall well-being that cooking may provide have not been given the same attention. Insufficient work has been done to explore the psychosocial benefits of cooking, and thus these researchers conducted this literature review to demonstrate how the use of Seligman’s prominent well-being model, the Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (PERMA) model, can define cooking and the undertakings involved in preparing food. The authors postulated that the PERMA model’s use to define cooking can provide a conceptual structure to help investigate the psychosocial impact of cooking, with possible further expansions on the concepts presented to entrench positive psychology practices in driving future research on psychosocial health and chronic diseases linked to nutritional derangements. [NPID: Cooking, well-being, psychosocial health, PERMA model]
Year: 2021
