ABSTRACT
Across all of domains of life, well-being strongly depends on the qualities and characteristics of human action. Are people allowed, enabled, and empowered to do what they intend to do? Can they complete intended actions? Are their actions successful in the sense of achieving the goals that they are pursuing? Many examples show how well-being will decline if people’s agency is sabotaged, such as the adverse eect of imprisonment – a massive limitation of options to act and to complete intended actions of numerous kinds (e.g., Crewe, 2011).
