Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Subject "Happiness"
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Authentic happiness of managers, and individual and organisational outcomes
(SAGE Publications, 2012)The aim of this study was to investigate managers' orientations to happiness and the relationship thereof to individual and organisational outcomes. A cross-sectional survey design was used with managers in the agricultural ... -
Beyond smiling: the evaluation of a positive psychological intervention aimed at student happiness
(Elliott & Fitzpatrick & NISC [© 2010 Elliot & Fitzpatrick], 2012)The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a positive psychological intervention (PPI) aimed at increasing happiness of students in a tertiary educational institution. A convenience sample (n = 20) was drawn from ... -
Conversion of verbal response scales: robustness across demographic categories
(Springer, 2016)Happiness and life satisfaction have traditionally been measured using verbal response scales, however, these verbal scales have not kept up with the present trend to use numerical response scales. A switch from a verbal ... -
Flourishing Interventions: A Practical Guide to Student Development
(Springer, 2014)This chapter presents a practical guide for the development of flourishing students. Flourishing is defined as a positive psychological state characterised by positive emotions, engagement, positive relationships, meaning ... -
Greater happiness for a greater number: did the promise of enlightenment come true?
(Springer, 2017)In the eighteenth century 'Enlightened' thinkers challenged the belief that happiness exists only in Heaven. They claimed that happiness is possible in earthly life and foresaw that greater happiness would be achieved using ... -
Happy protest voters: the case of Rotterdam 1997-2009
(Springer, 2016)Protest parties are on the rise in several European countries. This development is commonly attributed to a growing dissatisfaction with life and associated with declining quality of life in modern society of the lowest ... -
Homogenizing responses to different survey questions on the same topic: Proposal of a scale homogenization method using a reference distribution
(Springer, 2014)Survey data are often used for comparison purposes, such as comparisons across nations or comparisons over time. To be effective, this would require equivalent questions and equivalent responses options to the questions. ... -
Informed pursuit of happiness: what we should know, do know and can get to know
(Springer, 2015)The rational pursuit of happiness requires knowledge of happiness and in particular answers to the following four questions: (1) Is greater happiness realistically possible? (2) If so, to what extent is that in our own ... -
Mental Health Care and Average Happiness: Strong Effect in Developed Nations
(Springer, 2015)Mental disorder is a main cause of unhappiness in modern society and investment in mental health care is therefore likely to add to average happiness. This prediction was checked in a comparison of 143 nations around 2005. ... -
Pooling time series based on slightly different questions about the same topic forty years of survey research on happiness and life satisfaction in the Netherlands
(Springer, 2016)Survey research on subjective wellbeing in The Netherlands started in the early 1970s. The time series happiness and life satisfaction that have emerged since then are unfortunately based on slightly different survey items ...