Pub Date : 2020-07-21DOI: 10.1504/ijhd.2020.10030679
B. Banerjee, A. Kundu
Based on primary data from urban and rural informal workers in Hooghly district of India, the paper attempts to explore the welfare of informal workers using the concept of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is conceptualised through two broad dimensions-psychological well-being and life satisfaction. An individual-specific composite index is constructed to quantify subjective well-being followed by a series of regression analysis on the constructed indices. The findings suggest income to be a strong positive influencer of overall subjective well-being as well as life satisfaction and psychological well-being of informal workers. But a segregated analysis reveals that factors influencing subjective well-being distinctly differ across rural and urban workers. Rural workers tend to have higher well-being score than their urban counterpart and income does not have significant effect on their subjective well-being. Also, regular wage-earners tend to score higher in overall subjective wellbeing as well as life satisfaction than self-employed and casual labours.
{"title":"Subjective well-being of the informal workers: an empirical study from Hooghly district of West Bengal, India","authors":"B. Banerjee, A. Kundu","doi":"10.1504/ijhd.2020.10030679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhd.2020.10030679","url":null,"abstract":"Based on primary data from urban and rural informal workers in Hooghly district of India, the paper attempts to explore the welfare of informal workers using the concept of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is conceptualised through two broad dimensions-psychological well-being and life satisfaction. An individual-specific composite index is constructed to quantify subjective well-being followed by a series of regression analysis on the constructed indices. The findings suggest income to be a strong positive influencer of overall subjective well-being as well as life satisfaction and psychological well-being of informal workers. But a segregated analysis reveals that factors influencing subjective well-being distinctly differ across rural and urban workers. Rural workers tend to have higher well-being score than their urban counterpart and income does not have significant effect on their subjective well-being. Also, regular wage-earners tend to score higher in overall subjective wellbeing as well as life satisfaction than self-employed and casual labours.","PeriodicalId":42619,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Happiness and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41577332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-21DOI: 10.1504/ijhd.2020.10030675
Y. Kuo, Tzu Hsiu Huang
This paper investigates the relationships between working hours, changes in time spent on leisure and sports activities, perceived health status, and individual life satisfaction. Data from the 2013 Taiwan Social Change Survey is employed in this study. The results show that more working hours significantly lower life satisfaction. Increasing leisure time can significantly improve subjective health, and better subjective health can significantly enhance life satisfaction. Furthermore, subjective health partially mediates the effect of leisure time on life satisfaction. However, the mediating effect does not exist for full-time employees although increasing leisure time can still improve life satisfaction. The reason for this could be that the subjective health of full-time employees is already better than that of those not working full-time. Initiatives leading to reduced working hours and increases in leisure time may increase life satisfaction and may result in reductions in medical expenses.
{"title":"The impacts of increasing leisure time on subjective health and life satisfaction","authors":"Y. Kuo, Tzu Hsiu Huang","doi":"10.1504/ijhd.2020.10030675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhd.2020.10030675","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the relationships between working hours, changes in time spent on leisure and sports activities, perceived health status, and individual life satisfaction. Data from the 2013 Taiwan Social Change Survey is employed in this study. The results show that more working hours significantly lower life satisfaction. Increasing leisure time can significantly improve subjective health, and better subjective health can significantly enhance life satisfaction. Furthermore, subjective health partially mediates the effect of leisure time on life satisfaction. However, the mediating effect does not exist for full-time employees although increasing leisure time can still improve life satisfaction. The reason for this could be that the subjective health of full-time employees is already better than that of those not working full-time. Initiatives leading to reduced working hours and increases in leisure time may increase life satisfaction and may result in reductions in medical expenses.","PeriodicalId":42619,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Happiness and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46094755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-21DOI: 10.1504/ijhd.2020.10030680
M. Islam
This study aims to explore the impact of education and health on economic growth and food security (FS) in Bangladesh. It employs economic growth rate, expenditure on education as a proxy for education, expenditure on health as a proxy for health, and fertility rate, infant mortality rate and prevalence of undernourishment as proxies for FS. Descriptive statistics are used to measure the FS indices. Engle-Granger cointegration is applied to determine the long run and short run relationships among variables, using World Bank data for the period 1998-2017. Cointegration results confirm the existence of short run as well as long run positive relationships between education spending and economic growth. The findings suggest that education has a direct link with FS, which has various dimensions, including access to food; if the population are educated; they are empowered and able to access food both by market and non-market mechanisms.
{"title":"Do education and health influence economic growth and food security Evidence from Bangladesh","authors":"M. Islam","doi":"10.1504/ijhd.2020.10030680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhd.2020.10030680","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to explore the impact of education and health on economic growth and food security (FS) in Bangladesh. It employs economic growth rate, expenditure on education as a proxy for education, expenditure on health as a proxy for health, and fertility rate, infant mortality rate and prevalence of undernourishment as proxies for FS. Descriptive statistics are used to measure the FS indices. Engle-Granger cointegration is applied to determine the long run and short run relationships among variables, using World Bank data for the period 1998-2017. Cointegration results confirm the existence of short run as well as long run positive relationships between education spending and economic growth. The findings suggest that education has a direct link with FS, which has various dimensions, including access to food; if the population are educated; they are empowered and able to access food both by market and non-market mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":42619,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Happiness and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45649299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-21DOI: 10.1504/ijhd.2020.10030678
M. Diakomihalis
With reference to a social progress index (SPI), this paper considers the progress level of the region of Epirus, Greece, to gain insights into factors affecting different facets of the region's social wellbeing and to identify its socioeconomic strengths and weaknesses. In a sample of respondents representing three levels of education and three types of employment who live in Epirus, the region is empirically evaluated for how satisfying it meets three criteria (i.e., basic human needs, foundations of well-being, and personal and social opportunities) and each of their four sub criteria. Revealing wide variation in the satisfaction of Epirus's mean scores compared to those of wellbeing indices applied worldwide and in Greece, the results informed suggestions for improving Epirus's social progress and for verifying its current development relative to other regions of EU member countries.
{"title":"A regional social progress index: the case of Epirus, Greece","authors":"M. Diakomihalis","doi":"10.1504/ijhd.2020.10030678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhd.2020.10030678","url":null,"abstract":"With reference to a social progress index (SPI), this paper considers the progress level of the region of Epirus, Greece, to gain insights into factors affecting different facets of the region's social wellbeing and to identify its socioeconomic strengths and weaknesses. In a sample of respondents representing three levels of education and three types of employment who live in Epirus, the region is empirically evaluated for how satisfying it meets three criteria (i.e., basic human needs, foundations of well-being, and personal and social opportunities) and each of their four sub criteria. Revealing wide variation in the satisfaction of Epirus's mean scores compared to those of wellbeing indices applied worldwide and in Greece, the results informed suggestions for improving Epirus's social progress and for verifying its current development relative to other regions of EU member countries.","PeriodicalId":42619,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Happiness and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43868441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-21DOI: 10.1504/ijhd.2020.10030681
Forough Jafari
The present study aims to investigate the relationship between character strengths and flourishing with the mediating role of self-compassion. The research method was structural equation modelling. The sample consisted of 376 university students between the ages of 20-30 (mean = 24.3) years old selected through cluster random sampling. Fifty-seven percent of the participants were females from the science and research branch at Azad University. The data were collected using the self-compassion scale (SCS) (Neff, 2003a), the values in action inventory of strengths (Peterson and Seligman, 2004) and the human flourishing questionnaire (HFQ) (Soleimani et al., 2015). The data was analysed using path analysis through LISREL software. The character strengths of love, gratitude and hope with the mediating role of self-compassion have an indirect effect on flourishing. According to the results, optimising character strengths (especially emotional strengths) help people to accept themselves without self-judgement and selfcriticism, which in turn improves individual flourishing.
本研究旨在通过自我同情的中介作用，探讨人格优势与成功的关系。研究方法为结构方程建模。样本采用整群随机抽样的方法，选取年龄在20 ~ 30岁之间的大学生376人，平均24.3岁。57%的参与者是来自阿扎德大学科学和研究部门的女性。数据采用自我同情量表(SCS) (Neff, 2003a)、行动价值优势量表(Peterson and Seligman, 2004)和人类繁荣问卷(HFQ) (Soleimani et al.， 2015)收集。通过LISREL软件对数据进行通径分析。爱、感恩和希望的性格优势在自我同情的中介作用下对繁荣有间接影响。根据结果，优化性格优势(尤其是情感优势)有助于人们不自我评判和自我批评地接受自己，从而促进个人的繁荣。
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Pub Date : 2020-03-02DOI: 10.1504/ijhd.2020.10033089
K. West
An individual’s body image has profound implications for their self-esteem and overall life-satisfaction, and is a significant predictor of the onset of eating disorders. Recent research suggested that nude activities improved body image, self-esteem, and life-satisfaction among participants who were predisposed to take part in such activities. This current research investigated whether a nudity-based intervention can have similar positive effects among non-nudist participants with low levels of positive body-image, and whether those effects endure. Fifteen participants completed measures of body-image, self-esteem, and life-satisfaction before, immediately after, and one month after participating in a 4-day, nudity-based intervention. Participants reported substantial improvements in all three outcomes that remained one month after the intervention’s completion. Results suggest that nudity-based interventions can meaningfully and enduringly improve body image and related outcomes, even among non-nudists.
{"title":"A nudity-based intervention to improve body image, self-esteem, and life satisfaction","authors":"K. West","doi":"10.1504/ijhd.2020.10033089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhd.2020.10033089","url":null,"abstract":"An individual’s body image has profound implications for their self-esteem and overall life-satisfaction, and is a significant predictor of the onset of eating disorders. Recent research suggested that nude activities improved body image, self-esteem, and life-satisfaction among participants who were predisposed to take part in such activities. This current research investigated whether a nudity-based intervention can have similar positive effects among non-nudist participants with low levels of positive body-image, and whether those effects endure. Fifteen participants completed measures of body-image, self-esteem, and life-satisfaction before, immediately after, and one month after participating in a 4-day, nudity-based intervention. Participants reported substantial improvements in all three outcomes that remained one month after the intervention’s completion. Results suggest that nudity-based interventions can meaningfully and enduringly improve body image and related outcomes, even among non-nudists.","PeriodicalId":42619,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Happiness and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47508567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijhd.2020.10033099
Xinxin Ma
{"title":"Impact of the intra-household bargaining power gap on the happiness of married women in China","authors":"Xinxin Ma","doi":"10.1504/ijhd.2020.10033099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhd.2020.10033099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42619,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Happiness and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66888499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijhd.2020.10033086
Amritkant Mishra
{"title":"Quest of nexus between inflation and economic development: evidence from Asian countries","authors":"Amritkant Mishra","doi":"10.1504/ijhd.2020.10033086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhd.2020.10033086","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42619,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Happiness and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66888495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-29DOI: 10.1504/ijhd.2019.10026095
Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh, A. A. Samah, B. Samah, H. A. Shaffril
This study was conducted to identify factors associated with happiness among urban youth in Malaysia. Respondents were 400 youth community-dwelling residents in the metropolitan areas of Malaysia. Structural equation modelling was used to analyse the data. Findings showed that social and family environments and education predict the happiness of young adults. Surprisingly, the results also revealed a significant negative relationship between economic opportunities and their happiness, while health, ICT use, and civic engagement had no significant effect on their happiness. Our findings support the implementation of actions to stimulate social and family environments, education, and economic opportunities for young urban adults in Malaysia, particularly given the importance of these factors in the perception of their happiness.
{"title":"Determinants of happiness among youth in Malaysia","authors":"Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh, A. A. Samah, B. Samah, H. A. Shaffril","doi":"10.1504/ijhd.2019.10026095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhd.2019.10026095","url":null,"abstract":"This study was conducted to identify factors associated with happiness among urban youth in Malaysia. Respondents were 400 youth community-dwelling residents in the metropolitan areas of Malaysia. Structural equation modelling was used to analyse the data. Findings showed that social and family environments and education predict the happiness of young adults. Surprisingly, the results also revealed a significant negative relationship between economic opportunities and their happiness, while health, ICT use, and civic engagement had no significant effect on their happiness. Our findings support the implementation of actions to stimulate social and family environments, education, and economic opportunities for young urban adults in Malaysia, particularly given the importance of these factors in the perception of their happiness.","PeriodicalId":42619,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Happiness and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49584640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-29DOI: 10.1504/ijhd.2019.10026094
Damien Cassells
The factors that contribute towards an individual seeking help from a counsellor or psychotherapist for a mental, nervous or emotional problem are explored in this study. A multivariate logistic regression is applied to analyse data from the 2006 National Psychological Wellbeing and Distress Survey. Individuals living in rural areas and in towns with populations of between 5,000 and 10,000 people are found to be less likely to seek counselling, relative to individuals living in Dublin City. Respondents earning the lowest income were less likely to enter therapy compared with respondents earning the highest, while having private health insurance increased the probability of a respondent entering therapy. Individuals aged between 18 and 39 years and between 50 and 64 years are more likely to seek the help of a counsellor. Finally, attending a general practitioner, psychologist, social worker, or member of the clergy increased the likelihood of an individual seeking help from a counsellor or psychotherapist. No such effect was found for attending either a psychiatrist or nurse.
{"title":"Help-seeking from a counsellor or psychotherapist: a cross-sectional study of Irish adults","authors":"Damien Cassells","doi":"10.1504/ijhd.2019.10026094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhd.2019.10026094","url":null,"abstract":"The factors that contribute towards an individual seeking help from a counsellor or psychotherapist for a mental, nervous or emotional problem are explored in this study. A multivariate logistic regression is applied to analyse data from the 2006 National Psychological Wellbeing and Distress Survey. Individuals living in rural areas and in towns with populations of between 5,000 and 10,000 people are found to be less likely to seek counselling, relative to individuals living in Dublin City. Respondents earning the lowest income were less likely to enter therapy compared with respondents earning the highest, while having private health insurance increased the probability of a respondent entering therapy. Individuals aged between 18 and 39 years and between 50 and 64 years are more likely to seek the help of a counsellor. Finally, attending a general practitioner, psychologist, social worker, or member of the clergy increased the likelihood of an individual seeking help from a counsellor or psychotherapist. No such effect was found for attending either a psychiatrist or nurse.","PeriodicalId":42619,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Happiness and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46268182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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