According to Psychologists the understanding of Well Being includes-

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

The correct answer is Option (1) → Growth and fulfilment along with maintenance and survival

Many psychologists judge whether behaviour is normal by whether it fosters the well-being of the individual and the group. Well-being is not only maintenance and survival but also includes growth and fulfilment, i.e. the actualisation of potential, as in Maslow’s need hierarchy.

Option (1) Growth and fulfilment along with maintenance and survival — Correct. It carries both parts of the idea of well-being: staying alive and going on, and growing towards one’s potential.

Option (2) Maintenance and survival along with happiness and love — Incorrect. It keeps the first part but puts happiness and love in place of growth and fulfilment; well-being in this sense is about actualising one’s potential.

Option (3) Happiness and love along with growth and fulfilment — Incorrect. It keeps growth and fulfilment but drops maintenance and survival, the base on which growth is built.

Option (4) Maintenance and happiness along with growth and fulfilment — Incorrect. It breaks the pair ‘maintenance and survival’ and slips happiness in for survival.

NCERT (2025-26): “Concepts of Abnormality and Psychological Disorders … The second approach views abnormal behaviour as maladaptive. Many psychologists believe that the best criterion for determining the normality of behaviour is not whether society accepts it but whether it fosters the well-being of the individual and eventually of the group to which s/he belongs. Well-being is not simply maintenance and survival but also includes growth and fulfilment, i.e. the actualisation of potential, which you must have studied in Maslow’s need hierarchy theory. According to this criterion, conforming behaviour can be seen as abnormal if it is maladaptive, i.e. if it interferes with optimal functioning and growth.…”