Personal resource systems define the quality of daily living, shaping personal well-being, societal satisfaction and overall quality of life. This study explores the construct of such systems through the emerging concept of Personal Resource Systems Management (PRSM) and models that concept for future research, consideration and debate. It is a qualitative exercise in grounded theory, a demonstration of integrative, interdisciplinary scholarship and a contribution to interactive practice in resource management, a subject matter specialty of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS). As such the proposed PRSM model advances the stated goal of FCS practice to "promote optimal well-being of families, individuals and communities." Specifically, a PRSM model within the context of FCS should.
• describe person-environment interaction
• as well as aggregates thereof (family and community) and
• identify diverse daily impacts on the quality of living, personal well-being, societal satisfaction and overall quality of life
• by modeling a consistent system of multiple options, each with a clear solution
Advertising education, an academic discipline, has been taught on college campuses for a century. In fact, the first course with the title of “Advertising” was taught at New York University in 1905. Today, a hundred years later, approximately 150 colleges and universities have advertising education programs.
The concept of happiness has been popular throughout written history. When attempting to visualize the human life of 200 or 2000 years ago, the first assumption that springs to mind is that the preconditions for thinking about happiness were lacking. The conditions of life were often cruel to the common man and most were unable to read or write. Even when more people were equipped with the necessary skills, there was not much to read apart from religious literature, primarily, the Bible. There one could find messages that would remind them of their present condition.
