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 which determines six factors which contribute to an individual's psychological well-being, contentment, and happiness.Seifert, T. A. (2005). The Ryff scales of p ...

and

psychological resilience Psychological resilience is the ability to cope mentally or emotionally with a crisis or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. The term was coined in the 1970s by a psychologist named Emmy E. Werner as she conducted a forty year long study of ...

. She is the Hilldale Professor of psychology at the

University of Wisconsin-Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

, where she directs the Institute on Aging.

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