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.
This research explores the Waorani notion of waponi kewemonipa (living well). The Waorani are indigenous people from Ecuadorian Amazonia. The anthropological fieldwork that informs this thesis was ...carried out among Waorani people living in settlements along oil roads, a particular milieu which is highlighted by Waorani as a contemporary marker of intraethnic difference. In this context, I investigate how the Waorani conceptualize and perform their living well, and how they respond to contemporary challenges, notably: liquor-related conflicts, oil-related pollution and inequalities for accessing external resources. Thus, this research endeavour is a contribution to the growing literature on Amazonian notions of living well and wellbeing. Chapter 1 introduces the notion of living well and its main dimensions which are further explored in relation to: health and vitality (chapter 2), environment and infrastructures (chapter 3), livelihoods (chapter 4), relations with the encroaching society (chapter 5), death and engagement with social media (chapter 6). Peaceful conviviality and collective happiness are at the core of the Waorani living well, these ideals require healthy people and abundance of resources for sharing among those who live together. Both health and abundance imply the constant replenishment of vitality, which I call the generative dimension of living well. There is also an ecological dimension: the Waorani relate living well with the forest of plenty as opposed to the road of “heat” and noise. Strategies for living well include aspects as varied as: opening of new settlements far from the roads, promoting football tournaments, State public services, and for some even new Christian conversions. But overall, what Sahlins called the hunter-gatherer ‘Zen road to affluence’, is ubiquitously present among the Waorani, and it has a background of laughter, encouraged through the narrative style anka totamonapa (how much we laughed) and other forms of collective happiness.
En este estudio se analiza el impacto de diversas variables socioeconómicas en la felicidad de los habitantes de la ciudad de Arequipa, ubicada al sur de Perú. Para ello se aplicaron una ficha de ...datos sociodemográficos y la Escala de Felicidad de Lima a una muestra representativa de 823 personas de Arequipa Metropolitana, obtenida mediante la técnica de muestreo por racimos. Se aplicó un análisis de regresión lineal múltiple y se encontró que solo la variable raza se encuentra asociada de forma estadísticamente significativa con la felicidad de los habitantes.
Objective
The present study examined the essentialist lay theories of happiness (i.e., beliefs that happiness is determined by one’s genes and hence, immutable) and its implications for motivation to ...enhance one’s happiness level.
Method
Study 1 (N = 454) developed a scale called the “Essentialist Beliefs about Happiness (EBH)” and Study 2 (N = 207) validated the scale by comprehensively examining conceptually overlapping constructs related to the EBH. In Study 3 (N = 401) and Study 4 (N = 452), by utilizing correlational and experimental methods, we tested the effect of the EBH on motivation to enhance happiness.
Results
Using the scale developed and validated in Study 1 and Study 2, Study 3 and Study 4 found that the essentialist beliefs about happiness predicted reduced motivation to be happier. Specifically, participants with greater essentialist beliefs about happiness were less likely to engage in happiness‐boosting activities. Specifically, those who believed that happiness is influenced by one's attitude and effort had greater intention to engage in happiness‐boosting activities.
Conclusions
The present results provide new insight into the role of individual differences in essentialist lay theories of happiness in motivational state in well‐being domain.
Objective: This study aimed to investigate factors that influenced the sense of job happiness of nurses who worked in hospitals and to obtain suggestions for retention management. Methods: A ...self-administered questionnaire was completed by 41 nurses, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 nurses to collect data for text mining analysis. Results: The analysis results indicated that nurses who were happy with their jobs were motivated to continue working as they gained psychological happiness from being thanked by patients, gained confidence in what they did, and built social relationships with their families and patients. The results also indicated that the perceptions of nurses who were unhappy with their jobs were related to the attitudes and behaviors of their supervisors toward their subordinates and not primarily related to external variables. Conclusions: There is a need for further reliability and validity testing and empirical research on the components of factors that influence happiness using quantitative methods, with a focus on nurses in Japan.
Recently, the world experiences a striking process of modernization that provokes dehumanization phenomena. Consequently, modern society encounters a spiritual crisis (azmah ruhaniyah), primarily ...caused by greediness rationalism mind-set as the consequence of technology hegemony. Particularly, in the industry 4.0 revolution era, its prevalent challenge is the appearance of disruptive technology that affects almost every aspect of life, including the spiritual aspect. This spiritual crisis affects the formation of soul-sick (qalbun saqim). One of the examples is the pseudo happiness that has become an epidemic in various kinds of social media like WhatsApp (WA), Instagram (IG), Facebook (FB), Twitter, and so forth. Social media users share happiness content without being accompanied by their real emotions. These emotions are illustrated as pseudo happiness, which is the fake happiness acknowledged by the people. In this study, the researchers formulated happiness literacy by using the detection and education method to realize authentic happiness. The detection of pseudo happiness refers to the indicators built based on the universal values of the Quran. This idea is presented on a website named literasibahagia.or.id to ease the access of technologically literate users. The findings of this study unravel the decreasing pseudo happiness on social media, along with society's local culture usage on social media
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