Concepts of Happiness and Well-Being

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 618-642
Author(s):  
Iftikhar Ahmed Charan ◽  
Shen Xin ◽  
Zezhuang Wang ◽  
Dewei Yao
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Resources ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Meaning In Work ◽  
The People ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Culture always plays an important role in creating and affecting happiness in human beings. This study examined the predictive power of cultural factors of differences in happiness and well-being. It explored how different dimensions of cultural and psychological indices differ in their effects on happiness. Growing evidence suggests that happiness is associated with success in multiple domains, such as work, education, culture, and social relationships. We used both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the relationship between the various factors of well-being and happiness. This study investigates the relationship between happiness and well-being in cultural and psychological resources through the concept of psychological capital, education, workplace well-being, and perceived happiness. This study compares the personal and group level cultural, social, and economic aspects of the Pakistani community that resides in cities in mainland China. Moreover, the main pillars of workplace happiness were determined to be understanding goals, finding meaning in work, and establishing social relationships at both the personal and group levels. We found that happiness and well-being are strongly associated with the behaviour of the people and leadership.

scholarly journals Workplace happiness, well-being and their relationship with psychological capital: A study of Hungarian Teachers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agota Kun ◽  
Peter Gadanecz
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Resources ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Meaning In Work ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Workplace Happiness ◽  
Solution Focused ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

AbstractHappiness and well-being at work has been an increasingly popular topic in the past two decades in academic and business contexts alike, along with positive psychology, through which organizations aim to find out, what makes working environments engaging and motivating. Few studies have focused on education, however, especially from a solution-focused perspective, even though it is a sector where employees are highly exposed to stress and burnout. Accordingly, the purpose of his study was to investigate the relationship between teachers’ psychological resources through the concept of psychological capital, workplace well-being and perceived workplace happiness. We used both qualitative (open-ended question) and quantitative (test battery) methods to examine the relation between the various factors. Content analysis of responses in our qualitative research suggests that the main pillars of teachers’ workplace happiness were realization of goals, feedback, finding meaning in work and social relationships. The results of our quantitative study indicated that workplace well-being and happiness correlated with inner psychological resources, hope and optimism in particular. We conclude that the future focus on employee well-being must take into account positive contributing factors and adopt a positively-oriented approach to promoting well-being. Suggestions for practical implications are also discussed.

A Generative Sequential Mixed Methods Approach Using Quantitative Measures to Enhance Social Constructionist Inquiry

2021 ◽  
pp. 155868982098627
Author(s):  
Diego Romaioli
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods

In order to enhance core mixed methods research designs, social scientists need an approach that incorporates developments in the social constructionist perspective. This work describes a study that aimed to promote occupational well-being in hospital departments where employees are at risk of burnout, based on a constructionist inquiry developed starting from the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Taking this study as an example, we define a “generative sequential mixed methods approach” as a process that involves consulting quantitative studies to identify criticalities on which to conduct focused, transformative investigations. The article contributes by envisaging ways to mix qualitative and quantitative methods that consider a “generative” and “future-forming” orientation to research, in line with recent shifts in social psychology.

scholarly journals Relationship between gratitude and psychological well-being around Lapindo Mudflow resident

2020 ◽  
Vol 153 ◽  
pp. 03005
Author(s):  
Dian Anggraini ◽  
Listyati Palupi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Correlational Study ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
The People ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
Quantitative Correlational ◽  
Quantitative Correlational Study ◽  
The Relationship

The Lapindo Mud is a natural disaster occurred 13 years ago and still erupts today. Of course this disaster affects the people who live around it. The people who are the victims of the mud disaster is still survive. Therefore, it is important to understand how this people could survive in this disaster situation. Thus, the purpose of this quantitative, correlational study is to investigate the relationship between gratitude and psychological well-being for the resident around Lapindo mudflow. This research used quantitative method with survey. The scale used was The Gratitude Questionnaire-Six Item Form (GQ-6) developed by McCullough to measured the level of gratitude and Javanese Psychological Well-being Scale developed by Palupi to measured psychological well-being. The result showed that there is relationship between gratitude and psychological well-being in the population/resident around Lapindo mudflow.

Research on Span of Manufacturing Task with Time-Sequence Constraint for Manufacturing Collaborative Alliances

2012 ◽  
Vol 201-202 ◽  
pp. 975-978
Author(s):  
Hong Fei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Time Sequence ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Sequence Constraint ◽  
Manufacturing Resources ◽  
Production Period ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Task Span ◽  
Collaborative Alliances

For the manufacturing task of manufacturing collaborative alliances, the relationship between manufacturing task programming and manufacturing resources deployment is analyzed and the model for the span of manufacturing task with time sequence constraint is constructed. The problem of span programming of manufacturing task with time sequence constraint is analyzed by integrating qualitative and quantitative methods from production period for the manufacturing task. The mathematical formulations of influential factors and task span are constructed, and the optimal values of task span are obtained. By analyzing the results of quasi-quantitative study, some meaningful results that benefit to programming for collaborative manufacturing task are achieved.

scholarly journals Penguasaan 4 (Empat) Prasyarat Dasar Aritmatika untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Siswa Sekolah Dasar dalam Menyelesaikan Soal Matematika

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-84
Author(s):  
Endro Tri Susdarwono
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Loading Function ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Math Problems ◽  
Canonical Weight

The purpose of this study discusses how mastery of 4 (four) basic prerequisites of arithmetic which includes the ability to count, make Arithmetic / multiples, complement especially Nines and ten, and the concept of place values in numbers affect students' ability to solve math problems consisting of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and multiplication. The approach in this study uses a descriptive approach, the method used is a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. A qualitative approach is used to describe the basic arithmetic mastery of students including numeracy, making Arithmetic / multiples numbers, complements especially nines and ten, and the concept of place values in numbers. The quantitative approach uses statistical tests with canonical correlation analysis to answer the relationship and influence between understanding of basic arithmetic mastery on the ability to solve math problems related to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. From the results of the canonical weight and canonical loading function 1, it can be concluded that there is indeed a significant relationship between the dependent variate and the independent variate or basic arithmetic mastery and the students' ability to do math problems is indeed correlated together.

Well-Being in Practice and Policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-73
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
The People ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

Recent research focuses on the concept of well-being, aiming to systematize it and obtain design guidelines. In latest years, various building certification systems have arisen, which, although used for ex post evaluations, contain, specularly, design guidelines. In a first phase the concept of well-being was intended on a global scale, linked to the pitfalls of pollution and consumption of resources, so design guidelines and control systems developed within the construction industry to ensure the conservation of the environment and therefore the “well-being” and “health” of human communities. Having therefore developed certification systems measuring and evaluating the performance of buildings in relation to their impact on the environment and its resources, we are now faced with a shift of attention on a smaller scale, linked to the performance that buildings offer not so much with respect to the environment as to the people who live in them. This chapter explores the concepts behind such systems and the relationship between building certification systems and people's well-being.

The Relation between Money and Happiness in MENA Countries

2016 ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
Hilal Yıldız
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Performance ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Mena Countries ◽  
Crucial Question ◽  
The People ◽  
The Relationship

Even though economic growth plays very important role in development, governments stressed the importance of happiness now. The crucial question is that what exactly is the relationship between happiness and money? Or, what can determine happiness? In recent years, the human well-being of its people has been accepted as a new economic inequalities measure. Not only economic performance of the country but also social, political and cultural performance of the country has been accepted as an indicator of better life of the people. Questions which will be discussed are thinking whether or not economic growth plays a major role in happiness and how the relation between economic growth and happiness. The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the relationship between economic growth and happiness in the MENA Region using an empirical analysis.

scholarly journals Theorizing Research Ethics for the Study of Psychological Phenomena from Within Relational Everyday Life

Human Arenas ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaakko Hilppö ◽  
Niklas Alexander Chimirri ◽  
Antti Rajala
Keyword(s):  
Research Ethics ◽  
Special Section ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
The People ◽  
Current Psychological ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Common World

Abstract How to investigate psychologically relevant phenomena in the most ethical ways possible is an enduring question for researchers not only in psychology but also in adjacent fields that study human subjectivity. Once acknowledging that both researchers and the people whose lives they want to study are human beings acting in a common world, also inhabited by non-human beings, the relationship between researchers and participants touches upon fundamental questions not only about what it means to do research together, but also what it means to conduct life in this world together. This implies that questions regarding what counts as ethical conduct need to be accentuated and also profoundly re-drawn given the encompassing complexity of these relations. In this article, we will shortly review the theoretical foundations and associated problematics of the dominant view of the researcher-researched relationship in current psychological (and other) research ethics. We then present and discuss what we mean by a relational ethical position from within practice and for practice. We will also shortly introduce how the other contributions to this special section advance the theoretical debates on research ethics.

Intersectionality of Caste, Gender and Occupation: A Study of Safai Karamchari Women in Maharashtra

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hemangi Kadlak ◽  
Pradeep S. Salve ◽  
Payal Karwade
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Preferential Treatment ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Gender

The issues of women safai karamcharis are less discussed in academic sphere compared to male safai karamcharis and given minimum importance. These women face multiple problems at the family level, at the working places and in the society; their problems are largely unheard. In the light of this limitation, the present study aimed to give visibility to their problems and their coping mechanisms. It is a collaborative work of three different surveys conducted with 115 safai karamcharis women in Nagpur (60), Kalyan (30) and Mumbai (25) cities applying qualitative and quantitative methods in Maharashtra. The results revealed that women aged 19 years to 46 years are engaged in safai kam and majority of them are widowed or currently married. Almost three-fourths of women resumed this occupation through preferential treatment (PT) case and those of direct recruitment are because of their Scheduled Caste background. Health problems and discrimination at the workplace are common and most of the time neglected. There is a need to establish a strong bridge between workers and academicians who form the policies and welfare programmes for safai karamcharis in order to realize their real conditions and needs. In social sciences, theories of knowledge production have to be utilized for the upliftment or betterment of the people irrespective of the caste and gender.

DESIGN OF PROTOTYPE OF KRA ISTHMUS OTOP CENTER

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thidima Umpawan
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Average Level ◽  
Design And Technology ◽  
Organization Management ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
Unique Style ◽  
High Level

Objective:The design of OTOP exhibition centre was aimed to study the background and local lifestyle of people in Kra Isthmus, Ranong Province and OTOP exhibition centre design for Kra Isthmus to increase the value of community shop’s appearance in accordance with Thailand 4.0 policy which aims to promote Thailand’s economy to be an innovation-driven economy. Methodology:Both qualitative and quantitative methods are used to conduct this study. The background and local lifestyle of the people at Kra Isthmus were studied by using the conceptual framework of ThidimaUmpawan.The survey was conducted with the participation between researcher and people from the community. Three models were created. 1st Prototype was Fon Pad Dad Si (eight months of rain and four months of sunshine) is interior design keyword. 2nd Prototype was Thammadha (normal) and 3rd Prototype was Tuk-mai (wooded shophouses). The design detail of each model consisted of location, organization management, behavior analysis of service provider and service consumer, correlation analysis, image, color schematic, material management, floor plan and other related plans, and perspective. Main Findings:The results from expert’s opinions on the all models showed that the appropriateness of the location was at the high level ( = 3.80 , SD = 0.60) as well as the organization management ( = 3.70 , SD = 0.65). The third model had the highest score among the three models in floor planning and merchandising ( = 3.45 ,SD = 0.62).Moreover, the third model could well represent lifestyle of Kra Isthmus( = 3.50, SD=0.60) and use appropriate material ( = 3.70 , SD = 0.52). The color schematic of the second and third models was at the average level( = 2.80 , SD = 0.60). The first model had the highest score in lighting design ( =3.20 , SD =0.50) at the average level. For the overall design, the third model had the highest score ( = 3.30 , SD = 0.62). Implications: As modern agriculture focuses on the management, interior design and technology, modern community shops are established. People in the community become the entrepreneurs who plant, process and sell their own products. Having unique style shop is one way to develop Kra Isthmus area to be Ranong’s cultural tourism area.

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