Subjective well-being and human welfare around the world as reflected in the Gallup World Poll

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Diener ◽  
Louis Tay
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
The World ◽  
Gallup World Poll

scholarly journals Subjective Well-Being and Prosociality Around the Globe: Happy People Give More of Their Time and Money to Others

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostadin Kushlev ◽  
Nina Radosic ◽  
Edward Francis Diener ◽  
Ed Diener
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Happy People ◽  
Helping Others ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gallup World Poll

Subjective well-being (SWB) is positively related to helping others, but so far research has not explored the association of individual aspects of well-being with prosocial behavior across the world. We used a representative sample (N = 1,433,078) from the Gallup World Poll (GWP) to explore the relationship between each aspect of well-being and prosocial behavior. We explored these associations between and within 161 countries. We found that different aspects of SWB are not equally associated with prosocial behavior: While life satisfaction and positive affect consistently predicted being more prosocial, negative affect did not consistently predict being less prosocial. Our findings underline the importance of studying the effects of the different components of SWB separately, indicating that, across the globe, it is satisfaction and positive emotions—not the lack of negative emotions—that are associated with being prosocial.

scholarly journals Subjective Well-Being and Prosociality Around the Globe: Happy People Give More of Their Time and Money to Others

2021 ◽  
pp. 194855062110433
Author(s):  
Kostadin Kushlev ◽  
Nina Radosic ◽  
Ed Diener
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Happy People ◽  
Helping Others ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gallup World Poll

Subjective well-being (SWB) is positively related to prosocial giving and helping others, but so far, research has not explored the association of individual aspects of well-being with prosocial behavior across the world. We used a representative sample from the Gallup World Poll across 163 countries from 2006 to 2017 to explore the relationship between each aspect of well-being and prosocial behavior ( N = 1,797,630). We found that different aspects of SWB are not equally associated with prosocial behavior: While life satisfaction and positive affect consistently predicted being more prosocial across the globe, negative affect did not consistently predict being more or less prosocial. We further explore economic and cultural moderators of these relationships. Our findings underline the importance of studying the effects of the different components of SWB separately, indicating that life satisfaction and positive emotions—more so than negative emotions—consistently predict being more prosocial across the globe.

scholarly journals Social Media and the Quality of Subjective Well-Being; Counseling Perspective in Digital Era

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zadrian Ardi ◽  
Indah Sukmawati
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

Various studies in the information technology revealed that there has been a change in the trend of internet use in recent years. Internet users in the world prefer to spend time accessing the internet through the social media. Social media with a variety of platforms provides special communities with their own uniqueness and allows users to share lots of content. The members involves creates a new social community with various phenomena, both positive and negative. Counselors in the millennium era are required to have the insight andknowledge that is qualified to deal with the well being conditions of individuals from activities in social media. Counselors are also required to have specific skills in providing handling with the condition of well being individuals related to the impact of activities on social media.

Needs and subjective well-being around the world.

2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 354-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Tay ◽  
Ed Diener
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
The World

Uncertainty avoidance moderates the link between faith and subjective well-being around the world

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 242-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Kogan ◽  
Joni Sasaki ◽  
Christopher Zou ◽  
Heejung Kim ◽  
Cecilia Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Cognitive Component in the Structure of Children’s Subjective Well-Being

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Zh.Yu. Bruk ◽  
S.V. Ignatjeva ◽  
L.M. Volosnikova ◽  
T.V. Semenovskikh
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Know How ◽  
Cognitive Component ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Circumstances ◽  
Fundamental Values

The subjective well-being of children today attracts researchers around the world and remains less studied than the subjective well-being of adults. The article presents the study of subjective well-being of 1719 schoolchildren from Tyumen at the age of 10 and 12 years. The research is a part of the International Survey of Children’s Well-being (ISCWeB) — Children’s Worlds. Family, children, their protection, support and provision of subjective well-being are fundamental values that determine world politics. The aim of the study was to analyze the cognitive component of children’s subjective well-being, carried out using factor analysis. We assume that the cognitive component of subjective well-being arises with a holistic picture of the world, the current life situation in which the child is happy. To collect factual material a questionnaire was used, consisting of eight main spheres of children’s life, reflecting the components of subjective well-being: social, material, physical, religious, psychological. The questions and judgments included in the questionnaire, revealed the specifics of the child’s attitude to himself and the world around him. Cluster analysis in the plane of the identified patterns of subjective well-being (intrareflective, interreflective) made it possible to distribute children into groups. Children are happy if they can make choices, decide for themselves how to relate to life, society and themselves. “Conditionally happy” children are happy with what they have. They are the ones who are really happy in the offered life circumstances and know how to appreciate and enjoy what they have in life. “Conditionally unhappy” children think that they have everything, they give “socially acceptable” answers, but they are not happy. Social attitudes prevent the child from finding “balance” between the real, external and his own, internal world. Ideally, a child experiences subjective well-being when the intrareflective and interreflective components are in balance.

Entrepreneurship and Happiness

2021 ◽  
pp. 372-389
Author(s):  
Helena I. B. Saraiva ◽  
Vítor M. S. Gabriel ◽  
Jose C. Sánchez-García ◽  
Brizeida Raquel Hernández-Sánchez ◽  
Giuseppina Maria Cardella
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Entrepreneurship

Subjective well-being and happiness have taken on increasing interest and relevance. Recently some governments and entities have been presenting, developing, and supporting happiness indexes. Regarding entrepreneurial activity, the presentation of global indexes has been developed for some more years until now. However, despite the existence of these two kinds of analysis, few studies have, so far, focused on comparing the evolution of the two sets of indicators, as well as on the hypothetical relationship between them, which prefigures a gap in the literature. In the present work, an exploratory analysis is performed on this theme, trying to establish the basis for identifying the existence of relationship between both types of indicators, using the comparison between two of the main open access databases, namely data from the World Happiness Report (WHR) and from the Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI).

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