Carol Diane Ryff is an American academic and psychologist. She received her doctorate in 1978. She is known for studying

psychological well-being The six-factor model of psychological well-being is a theory developed by Carol Ryff that determines six factors that contribute to an individual's psychological well-being, contentment, and happiness.Seifert, T. A. (2005). The Ryff scales of psyc ...

and

psychological resilience Psychological resilience, or mental resilience, is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. The term was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by psychologist Emmy Werner as she conduc ...

. Ryff is the Hilldale Professor of psychology at the

University of Wisconsin-Madison A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni ...

, where she directs the Institute on Aging. Ryff developed the six-factor model of psychological well-being.

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Ryff's faculty page
* University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Living people American women psychologists 21st-century American psychologists Pennsylvania State University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) American women academics 21st-century American women {{US-psychologist-stub