Conclusions Our results demonstrate the existence of an emotional distance effect and suggest that the evaluation of the intensity of an emotional expression is subserved by specific brain regions.
For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to ...social conventions and morality on the other. More recently there is a burgeoning interest in the study of happiness, in the social sciences and in the media. Can we really answer the question what makes people happy? Is it really grounded in credible methods and data? Is there consistency in the determinants of happiness across countries and cultures? Are happiness levels innate to individuals or can policy and the environment make a difference? How is happiness affected by poverty? By economic progress? Is happiness a viable objective for policy? This book is an attempt to answer these questions, based on research on the determinants of happiness in countries around the world, ranging from Peru and Russia to the U.S. and Afghanistan. The book reviews the theory and concepts of happiness, explaining how these concepts underpin a line of research which is both an attempt to understand the determinants of happiness and a tool for understanding the effects of a host of phenomena on human well being. The research finds surprising consistency in the determinants of happiness across levels of development. Yet there is still much debate over the relationship between happiness and income. The book explores the effects of many mediating factors in that relationship, ranging from macroeconomic trends and democracy to inequality and crime. It also reviews what we know about happiness and health and how that relationship varies according to income levels and health status. It concludes by discussing the potential - and the potential pitfalls - of using happiness surveys to contribute to better public policy.
Purpose
This study aims to systematically review the literature on happiness at work (HAW) by analysing existing studies, identifying relevant themes in HAW research and evaluating the methodologies ...used in the literature.
Design/methodology/approach
The study used a systematic review process, following the guidelines and principles outlined in the updated Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement 2020 and checklist. Articles were collected from six databases: Emerald insight, Taylor & Francis Online, Science Direct, Wiley Online Library, Springer and MDPI. Subsequently, systematic review was performed on 41 HAW articles published in 29 different journals between 2010 and 2022. The authors only considered articles that were either indexed by Scopus or in the Academic Journal Guide (AJG) list.
Findings
The study identified six major themes, assessed the operationalisation of HAW and analysed the research methodologies and statistical tools used in the sample studies. Majority of the articles discussed the antecedents of HAW followed by the HAW as a mediator. There is a high heterogeneity in the operationalisation of HAW in the reviewed articles. Moreover, majority of the studies have prioritised service sectors over the industrial sectors.
Originality/value
This study represents the first comprehensive review of the existing literature on HAW by using a systematic review methodology.
Drawing on the authentic happiness theory, this study proposes a model that links audience involvement, hedonic happiness, eudaimonic happiness and travel intention to better understand how travel ...vlogs stimulate online users to travel offline. The model conceptualizes three dimensions of audience involvement, namely narrative involvement, media personae identification, and parasocial interaction, based on the social characteristics of travel vlogs. Data collected from 454 participants were used to test the proposed hypotheses. The results show that (1) travel vlog audiences members’ authentic happiness has a hierarchical structure, with narrative involvement, media personae identification, and parasocial interaction all having a positive and significant impact on hedonic happiness and eudaimonic happiness; (2) narrative involvement and media personae identification have a stronger impact on hedonic happiness, while parasocial interaction has a stronger impact on eudaimonic happiness; (3) hedonic happiness and eudaimonic happiness fully mediate the impact of narrative involvement, media personae identification and parasocial interaction on travel intention. This study enriches the literature on audience involvement and deepens the theoretical understanding of authentic happiness in the context of tourism social media. It also provides guidance to tourism destinations on how to engage in vlog marketing.
•Audience involvement is broken down into three dimensions.•Travel vlog viewers' authentic happiness has a hierarchical structure.•Audience involvement has a positive impact on hedonic and eudaimonic happiness.•The impact of audience involvement on two types of happiness is asymmetric.•The mediating effects of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness are examined.
Interest in self-declared subjective wellbeing (SWB) - meaning life satisfaction, hedonic happiness and one's purpose in life - has been growing in development studies. The oft-noted discrepancy ...between poverty status and levels of self-declared SWB is commonly used to argue that poverty status is not an essential determinant of self-declared SWB. This thesis questions this assertion using the case of Indonesia. The thesis takes a mixed-methods approach. Specifically, a quantitative approach, which makes use of data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) (N=19,808 individuals), is combined with a qualitative approach based on in-depth interviews (N=110 individuals) in one province in Indonesia, namely Yogyakarta. Yogyakarta was purposely chosen due to the dissonance between SWB and the level of poverty. The findings are as follows: First, the study finds a dissonance between poverty status and self-declared SWB in Indonesia. Second, despite the dissonance, poverty status might be the most important economic variable in determining an individual's self-declared SWB in Indonesia. Third, the material consumption is more significant to self-declared life satisfaction, while income is more important to hedonic happiness. Fourth, economic factors influence SWB through ill-being rather than wellbeing, and among non-economic factors, an individual's health condition is the most crucial aspect in determining SWB. Fifth, government programs seeking to eradicate poverty tend to increase happiness but not necessarily an individual's life satisfaction. Finally, culture is significant to individual perceptions of wellbeing.
The recent rise of consumer happiness research in marketing literature is noticeable. This article presents a systematic review of consumer happiness research from 1991 to 2020. From an initial pool ...of 600 articles on consumer happiness from 158 marketing journals in the ABS and ABDC lists, 71 articles were selected. The procedure was as follows: (1) search of articles, (2) quality assessment, (3) extraction of data from articles, and (4) thematic synthesis. The review concluded that the term “consumer happiness” does not have a standardized definition in the existing literature. However, happiness has been studied in a variety of contexts, and consumer research is one of these contexts. Further, the review concluded that consumer happiness research is largely segregated across three themes: marketing beyond satisfaction, marketing for health and mind, and digital felicity. Seven areas of future research on consumer happiness are also proposed. The authors present academic and managerial contributions with scholarly implications for the literature in the areas of consumer well-being, the role of marketing/interactive marketing, and the positive side of marketing. The authors also suggest that marketers not only seek consumers’ need fulfillment and satisfaction from their product or service consumption but also try to elicit hedonic associations with their products or services.
How do we measure happiness? Focusing on subjective measures as a proxy for welfare and well-being, this book finds ways to do that. Subjective measures have been used by psychologists, sociologists, ...political scientists, and, more recently, economists to answer a variety of scientifically and politically relevant questions. Van Praag, a pioneer in this field since 1971, and Ferrer-i-Carbonell present in this book a generally applicable methodology for the analysis of subjective satisfaction. Drawing on a range of surveys on people's satisfaction with their jobs, income, housing, marriages, and government policy, among other areas of life, this book shows how satisfaction with life "as a whole" is an aggregate of these domain satisfactions. Using German, British, Dutch, and Russian data, the authors cover a wide range of topics. This groundbreaking book presents a new and fruitful methodology that constitutes a welcome addition to the social sciences. The paperback edition has been revised to bring the literature review up-to-date and the chapter on poverty has been revised and extended to take account of new research. Available in OSO:
Considering happiness as fragile and fleeting rather than stable is negatively correlated with happiness. We predicted that the relationship between fragility of happiness beliefs and subjective ...happiness would be moderated by optimism. More specifically, we hypothesized that in individuals high on optimism the fragility beliefs would not be negatively related to well-being, whereas in individuals low on optimism, fragility beliefs would be negatively related to well-being. We tested this hypothesis in a sample of young South Koreans (N=246). The results supported our prediction, showing that fragility beliefs were significantly related to lowered happiness only when accompanied by low levels of optimism. These results suggest that conceptions of happiness may interact with other psychological variables to influence actual levels of happiness.
•The relationship between fragility and subjective happiness was moderated by optimism.•At high and moderate levels of optimism, fragility was not related to happiness.•At low levels of optimism, fragility was negatively related to happiness.
This study explores hotel employees' perceived corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the proposed conceptual model under the umbrella of self-determination and needs satisfaction theory. The ...model examines dichotomous perceived CSR relationships - instrumental and volunteer CSR - with employees' basic needs satisfaction, self-esteem, hedonic and eudemonic happiness, and innovativeness. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was applied to examines the assumed hypotheses. The results established that hotel employees perceived instrumental CSR has a significant positive influence on the satisfaction of their basic needs, and perceived volunteer CSR impact employees' self-esteem. Employees' basic needs satisfaction demonstrated a significant positive influence on their hedonic happiness and self-esteem on eudemonic happiness. Both hedonic and eudemonic happiness contribute significantly to employee innovativeness, where, eudemonic happiness contribution is higher than hedonic happiness. The findings expand the literature on CSR by providing a better understanding of the core mechanism through which CSR can influence hotel employees' happiness, where, a happy employee is a key to innovativeness, competitiveness, and better organizational performance.
WHO IS YOUR "NORTH STAR"? Parish, Joycelyn G
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Practice good health. Because I want to do better and feel better, I will seek to work toward my goals and build my Psychological Strengths. ...create sequential short-term goals (B plans, C plans, ...etc.), remembering to include the qualities of "A Good Plan," as described above. ...we may need to rework our plan.) Please remember that good plans help us to experience positive emotion as we work to fulfill them.
