Federations are concerned about attracting new sportsmen and sportswomen and increasing the number of members. The purpose of this research was to describe karate federations' strategies for ...attracting and retaining members through happiness. The analysis was carried out by designing a structural equation modeling (SEM), which allowed to analyze the main variables that influenced the happiness of the karate athlete and consequently to study their effect on people's loyalty to sports federations. In particular, Partial least squares SEM was applied in an overall model when it was possible to understand the happiness role in relation with other traditional relevant variables on loyalty. The data were obtained through primary sources employing a survey sent to the autonomous federations in the discipline of karate, obtaining a sample of 682 federated members in Spain. The results of the model revealed that consumer satisfaction, engagement, and meaningful influence on consumer happiness, but engagement was the most important and relevant variable for affecting this variable. Finally, consumer satisfaction and consumer happiness influence loyalty, and consumer satisfaction was the most important variable, but consumer happiness showed a real alternative for improving loyalty in karate sports federations. Then, one of the implications of this work was that it helped to explain how the federations can be managed to achieve loyal consumers together with a more considerable increase in the number of federated members.
Exploring the high-effect factors of residents' happiness is good for a wide range of policy-making for economics and politics in most countries. Limited to the concerns of sociologists, previous ...efforts manually predefined the relationship among multifactors to analyze the factor-factor interactions with high interpretability by regression models. Recently, deep learning methods show great promising prediction accuracy by automatically learning additive interaction between factors, while it meets the challenges of interpretability. To this end, an unbiased post-hoc and model-agnostic method is promising to quantitatively interpret the results of the happiness prediction model. Thus, this article proposes a novel solution based on the deep neural network (DNN) and the Shapley value to compute the factor-factor interactions in different coalitions based on coalitional game theory. Aiming at evaluating the pairwise interactions interpretability quality of our solution, experiments are conducted on the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) and European Social Survey (ESS) questionnaire datasets. By systematic reviews, the experimental results are highly consistent with academic studies in social science. Analyzed by different factor categories, the new finding is that some factors, e.g., body mass index (BMI) and social media, play a crucial role in happiness prediction but are rarely considered in social science studies. Specifically, there are some heavy interactions across multicategories, such as personal information (health and age) with economics (insurance and income). Therefore, this solution can theoretically support the implications of social decision-making.
Previous research on valence biases in face perception revealed inconsistent findings either proposing angry or happy faces to be detected more efficiently. We argue that the typical experimental ...task in this field, the face-in-the-crowd (FiC) paradigm, leads to ambiguous results. In the present paper, we introduce a new task, the mood-of-the-crowd (MoC) paradigm that can complement existing FiC findings. In the new task, participants have to decide which expression is shown by most faces in a crowd. In Experiment 1, photographs were used as stimuli, whereas computer-generated faces were presented in Experiments 2 and 3. While in the Experiments 1 and 2 crowds consisted of faces showing either happy and neutral expressions or angry and neutral expressions, in Experiment 3, crowds were composed of both angry and happy faces. Attentional processes were assessed with gaze recordings. Across the first two experiments, results indicate that happy faces are attended to with higher probability, and that the predominance of happy faces is assessed more accurately compared to the predominance of angry faces. In the last experiment, happy faces were focused on longer compared to angry expressions. Moreover, gender of presented faces was found to be an important moderator: There was a clear bias to classify female crowds as emotional (happy or angry). Additionally, the emotionality of female crowds was assessed more accurately.
The Conquest of Happiness Robertson, Kate S
BMJ,
10/2008, Volume:
337, Issue:
oct09 1
Journal Article, Book Review
Peer reviewed
Written long before Aaron Beck's Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders (1975) introduced cognitive behavioural therapy, Russell's book is firmly rooted in its time and class (he cites as ...examples the happiness of his gardener and his maid) but concentrates on individual responsibility, and therein lies the book's strength and continuing relevance. Nowadays, in the age of cognitive behavioural therapy for all, only patches for nicotine replacement therapy carry the warning "Some willpower required."
BINARISMS AND ITS DISCONTENTS Tonelli, Maria José; Zambaldi, Felipe
Revista de administração de emprêsas,
09/2019, Volume:
59, Issue:
5
Journal Article
Although the single group and the single economy have increased rapidly, the growing group of tourists-solo tourists has been neglected by scholars for a long time. This paper takes them as the ...research object and explores their happiness via travel. Based on the network text data, the paper finds that the formation of solo tourists' well-being can be divided into three stages, which are the anticipation before traveling alone, the experience during travel, and the happiness precipitation after traveling alone. The well-being of ST is a complex concept which includes 8 categories. There are similarities and differences between the happiness of solo tourists and that of ordinary tourists. The pleasure is the same as ordinary tourists' well-being. The sense of escape, meaning of life, and gain are similar and different. The sense of control, reality, freedom, and ease are the unique facts of ST's well-being. The research reveals the formation process of ST's well-being and the richness of their connotations, providing a theoretical basis for stimulating the well-being of the unique group and enriching and expanding the research results of tourism well-being.
Old age is characterized by many problems including physical health, psychological health, and overall well-being problems. Most studies indicate a decline in subjective well-being in the geriatric ...population. Although many studies have investigated the relationship between physical activity and subjective well-being in old age, few have been conducted among the aging Indonesian population. This study was aimed at investigating the association between physical activity and measures of subjective well-being among older adults in Indonesia using data from a community survey. After restricting the sample to individuals aged 60 and older, a sample of 1,813 old individuals was yielded. Two models of multiple regression were estimated. In the first model, subjective well-being was predicted by physical activity. The second model added to the first model a wide range of confounding variables in order to check whether the relationship between physical activity and subjective well-being was still significant after adjusting for covariates. The main findings revealed that staying physically active was associated with high levels of life satisfaction but not with happiness beyond the contribution of gender, education, marital status, religiosity, personality, and self-rated health. Physical activity yields well-being benefits in old age and these findings are relevant for policymakers, health professionals in the geriatric field, and public health professionals.
This research examines the concept of paradox brands – that is, brands with contradictory brand personality associations (e.g., rugged yet sophisticated) – and explores how to increase favorable ...evaluations of such brands using specific emotional appeals. In this regard, important life events such as graduation or memories of a grandmother can elicit the mixed emotions of happiness and sadness at the same time. This research reports three experimental studies conducted in different markets (the U.S. and the UK) that demonstrate mixed emotional appeals (sadness and happiness) are more persuasive than positive emotional appeals (happiness) for enhancing favorable consumer evaluations of paradox brands. This is because experiencing mixed emotions increases cognitive flexibility. Further, the effect of mixed emotional appeals is attenuated at high construal levels. This research offers meaningful theoretical and practical implications to the literatures on brand personality and mixed emotions by highlighting the potential of mixed emotions for promoting paradox brands.
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