Top Research Papers on Happiness

The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the “happiness duty,” the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy. Ahmed maintains that happiness is a promise that di...

Welfare and well-being have traditionally been gauged by using income and employment statistics, life expectancy, and other objective measures. The Economics of Happiness, which is based on people’s reports of how their lives are going, provides a complementary yet radically different approach to studying human well-being. Typically, subjective well-being measures include positive and negative feelings (e.g., momentary experiences of happiness or stress), life evaluations (e.g., life satisfaction), and feelings of having a life purpose. Both businesses and policymakers now increasingly make de...

Happiness is the main goal which most people and policy makers seek to find. The idea of happiness is as old as human civilization. The concept of happiness has been the core of ancient Hindu and Greek cultures. Definition of happiness can vary from person to person. Usually, happiness is defined as an emotional state characterized by feelings of joy, satisfaction, contentment and fulfillment. Multiple approaches by various researchers lead to numerous measures of happiness such as the PANAS scale, subjective happiness scale, Oxford happiness inventory and Seligman's PERMA model. Happiness correla...

Among the many surprises of the new coronavirus is one that seems to defy basic biology: infected patients with extraordinarily low blood oxygen levels, or hypoxia, scrolling through their phones, chatting with doctors, and generally describing themselves as comfortable.

In this unique and important book, one of the world's great spiritual leaders offers his practical wisdom and advice on how we can overcome everyday human problems and achieve lasting happiness. The Art of Happiness is a highly accessible guide for a western audience, combining the Dalai Lama's eastern spiritual tradition with Dr Howard C. Cutler's western perspective. Covering all key areas of human experience, they apply the principles of Tibetan Buddhism to everyday problems and reveal how one can find balance and complete spiritual and mental freedom. For the many who wish to understand mo...

A thorough understanding of the pathophysiological determinants of respiratory drive and hypoxemia may promote a more complete comprehension of a patient’s clinical presentation and management in COVID-19 patients.

A typical description of interpenetrating polymer networks (IPN) can be surprisingly simple, systems that consist of two crosslinked polymer networks that are physically entangled but not chemically linked. That simplistic description, however, successfully encompasses a wide range of synthesis processes and macromolecular architectures that can include "semi-IPN" (IPN-like systems containing only one crosslinked polymer) and interconnected polymer networks (IPN-like systems that also include a limited amount of inter-network chemical links). The macromolecular topologies of these systems comb...

Empirical evidence is presented that happiness, meaning, and psychological richness are related but distinct and desirable aspects of a good life, with unique causes and correlates.

Entrepreneurship can be fulfilling and enhance wellbeing, but also highly stressful and diminish wellbeing. This meta-analytical review synthesizes 319 effect sizes from 94 studies and 82 countries to establish whether individuals derive greater wellbeing from working for themselves or for someone else. The answer is partly positive in favor of entrepreneurship but depends on the components of wellbeing under investigation (positive wellbeing or negative wellbeing/mental illbeing) and the institutional context (especially the rule of law). We contribute by developing the component view of well...

Poor mental health costs about a tenth of global GNP. For many people, nature exposure improves mental health. This generates a newly recognised health service value for national parks worldwide, estimated at trillions of dollars annually. It creates a correspondingly large potential new market for commercial nature tourism, as a provider of nature therapies, especially in national parks. Before this opportunity can be realised, however, we must establish whether voluntary park visits generate mental health gains for everyone. Currently, psychology researchers and protected area managers hold ...

Live streaming offers an unprecedented opportunity for content creators (broadcasters) to deliver their content to consumers (viewers) in real time. In a live stream, viewers may send virtual gifts (tips) to the broadcaster and engage with likes and chats free of charge. These activities reflect viewers’ underlying emotion and are likely to be affected by the broadcaster’s emotion. This article examines the role of emotion in interactive and dynamic business settings such as live streaming. To account for the possibility that broadcaster emotion, viewer emotion, and viewer activities influence...

This work analyzes the variance in interpretation of the emoji, quantifying which emoji are most (and least) likely to be misinterpreted, and finds significant potential for miscommunication.

The associations among neurotransmitters, hormones, brain networks, and cognitive functions in the context of positive emotions and affect are reviewed in order to advance a primary aim of the Human Affectome Project.

It is argued that support for the purported U shape is not as robust and generalizable as is often assumed and that when asked to reflect on their lives, older adults tend to recall midlife as one of the more positive periods.

Grounded on the Masstige theory, this study examines the direct and indirect impact of Mass Prestige of a Brand (MPB), Brand Perception (BP), and Propensity to Pay the Premium (PPP) on Brand Evangelism (BE) via Brand Happiness (BH) as a mediator. Moreover, the moderating role of Self-pleasing Experience (SPE) between Masstige and BH and the interactive effect of Product Beliefs (PB) with BH to check its impact on BE was assessed. Two independent studies using cross-sectional and time-lagged approaches were conducted among cosmetics and clothing brand consumers. Results supported all the hypoth...

Purpose This research explores how does the organizational culture influence internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions and the effect of these actions on the level of happiness of employees. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts an employee perspective since the perception of employees is the unit of analysis. By relying on a sample of 921 workers of firms from different sectors and sizes headquartered in Spain, the empirical analysis is performed using partial least squares. Findings The findings evidence that clan and adhocracy cultures highly foster internal CSR practice...

Abstract Metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs), an emerging class of porous organic‐inorganic hybrid materials, have shown great potential for water and wastewater treatment applications. However, pure MOF powders have limited practical applications in water treatment due to their insolubility, poor processability, brittleness, safety hazard from dust formation, and difficult separation from aqueous solutions. Thus, exploring potential MOFs composites with improved separation performance is of great importance. The marriage of MOFs with electrospun nanofiber with forethought into the final product's...

Happiness has been topic of research since ancient times. This study explores the theory of consumer happiness grounded in the tenets of mass prestige (Masstige), self-consciousness and social ideal self by linking it with brand-induced happiness (Brand Happiness). The relationship is explored in light of self-consciousness and social ideal self by taking them as moderators. Data was collected from a European country using a standard questionnaire measuring brand happiness, masstige, self-consciousness and social ideal self from 346 respondents for three mobile phone brands from America, South...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether females have different perceptions of diversity management and workplace happiness compared to their male colleagues. Furthermore, the paper explores whether diversity management perceptions mediate the relationship between workplace happiness and organisational citizenship behaviour. Design/methodology/approach A total of 260 questionnaires from a number of public hospitals in Egypt were analysed using both t -test and Structural Equation Modelling. Findings We found that female physicians perceive diversity management policies/proto...

Research indicates that spending money on others- prosocial spending -leads to greater happiness than spending money on oneself (e.g., Dunn, Aknin, & Norton, 2008, 2014). These findings have received widespread attention because they offer insight into why people engage in costly prosocial behavior, and what constitutes happier spending more broadly. However, most studies on prosocial spending (like most research on the emotional benefits of generosity) utilized small sample sizes ( n N = 5,199), participants who recalled a prosocial (vs. personal) spending memory reported greater happiness bu...

A large empirical literature has debated the existence of a U-shaped happiness-age curve. This paper re-examines the relationship between various measures of well-being and age in 145 countries, including 109 developing countries, controlling for education and marital and labor force status, among others, on samples of individuals under the age of 70. The U-shape of the curve is forcefully confirmed, with an age minimum, or nadir, in midlife around age 50 in separate analyses for developing and advanced countries as well as for the continent of Africa. The happiness curve seems to be everywher...

Independence, well-being, and functioning of 123 adults that have been closely followed since early childhood are examined and it is found that autistic features specifically related to adaptive skills and friendships, and verbal intelligence related to work outcomes.

This minireview has drawn on recent progress to highlight the key reaction design features that enable successful ‘normal-to-medium’ ring expansion for the synthesis of these medicinally important molecular frameworks.

Virtual reality can influence consumer behavior in powerful ways, but in the domain of tourism marketing, less is known about the psychological process. One possibility is that VR has stronger impact on mental imagery than traditional channels, creating vivid simulations of what it would be like to visit destinations. This process might create hedonic expectations of future happiness, which should increase the willingness to actually seek out the destination in real life. The results from a laboratory experiment provided support to this hypothesis. Participants were randomly assigned to view a...

It is identified that the positive association between NDVI of urban parks and residents’ expressed happiness increased by one-half during the pandemic period compared to the overall results, indicating that the COVID-19 pandemic awakened ChineseResidents’ longing for high “green quality” urban parks.

This work uses data from 2006 and 2012 from the European Social Survey to analyze well-being for 21 countries, involving approximately 40,000 individuals for each year, and concludes that both the composite score and individual dimensions from this approach constitute valuable levels of analyses for exploring appropriate policies to protect and improve well- being.

An association between resilience–hope and subjective happiness was mediated by fear of COVID-19, and individuals who are resistant to stress and have a belief that they can find a way to cope can help prevent the fear of the pandemic and so enhance good mental health.

Shaping livable cities is an enduring issue for urban planning, which came dramatically to the forefront of relevant policies with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. This study explores what makes cities livable by using neighborhood satisfaction and neighborhood happiness as measures of urban livability. The determinants of neighborhood satisfaction and neighborhood happiness are examined and compared, using geospatial and survey data from two cities, one from the South and the other from the North European context: Thessaloniki, Greece and Oslo, Norway. A structural equation model ...

In this study, we investigate whether the affective state (happy or bored) of a human or virtual instructor in an instructional video on statistics yields different learning processes and outcomes. The positivity principle states that the emotional state of the instructor is recognized by students (hypothesis 1) and affects their emotional state (hypothesis 2), motivational state (hypothesis 3), and learning outcomes (hypothesis 4). The equivalence principle states that people respond to the emotional tone of computerized onscreen agents in the same way as for human instructors (hypothesis 5)....

It is shown that cryptocurrency returns seem to be driven more by sentiment transmitted through social media than with macroeconomic news, which is in line with the nature of cryptocurrency participants, mainly young individuals computer enthusiasts.

Smart tourism technology experience is shown to be significantly associated with travel experience satisfaction, and travel experience Satisfaction has a positive effect on both tourists’ happiness and revisit intention.

Employee turnover is an important concern for organizations in the hospitality industry. Drawing on career construction theory (CCT), this paper demonstrates how career adaptability is related to hospitality employee turnover intentions. Suggesting orientation to happiness (OTH) as an underlying reason, this study collected three waves of data from employees working in hotels of varying star ratings situated in the eastern region of the People's Republic of China. Study results found career adaptability to be negatively related to employee turnover intentions via OTH. In addition, perceived ca...

Based on how tourists interpret the destination experience and on attachment theory, this study investigates the influencing mechanism of tourists' happiness on revisit intention for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) cultural tourism destinations. Three tourist samples confirm the three dimensions of tourists' happiness: positive emotions, engagement, and meaning. Two surveys were conducted to test the direct and indirect influence of tourists' happiness on revisit intention and the moderating role of tourists' health consciousness. The results show that tourists' happiness promotes memorable...

It is suggested that positivity is an important aspect of developing strength-based preventions and interventions aiming to reduce psychological distress and improve happiness.

This study examines the influence of social support from intermediary organizations on innovativeness and subjective happiness in community-based tourism (CBT). The authors collected data from 236 residents who had participated in the Tour Dure project in South Korea. The analysis, using partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), shows that social support from intermediary organizations has a positive effect on the innovativeness of residents. Further, the more innovativeness the residents showed, the more their subjective happiness increased. In other words, social support f...

A model specifying the influences of virtually established parasocial interaction between fans and celebrities in social media related to fans' quality of life and well-being and suggests theoretical and practical implications for the extant literature and industry.

The HDSC mechanism established in this study is a first attempt to assess the performance of Smart City development from the lens of human happiness and can be better achieved towards a happiness-driven direction via dynamic assessment and adjustment.

[EN] The characteristics of neighbourhoods, their physical and social environment, have been shown to have profound efects on the individual well-being and happiness of their resi- dents. In an efort to help design policies and action plans that enhance well-being in the district, our study seeks to understand how happiness levels among residents in a low- income neighbourhood in Spain are linked to their socio-demographic traits, individual health, relationships with the area, and community, as well as with the physical environ- ment of the neighbourhood. The study is part of a project called...

The virtual way of working is becoming increasingly popular due to its potential for cost savings; it is also a way for an organization to be more agile and adapt to crises such as global pandemics. This innovative way of working brings new challenges to organizations that suddenly have to switch to telework. In fact, telework raises quite a few issues for employees, related to communication, collaboration, and the application of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies). This study examined the evaluation of telework through a questionnaire by different conditional groups of 436 telewo...

This study explores hotel employees’ perceived corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the proposed conceptual model under the umbrella of self-determination and needs satisfaction theory. The model examines dichotomous perceived CSR relationships – instrumental and volunteer CSR – with employees’ basic needs satisfaction, self-esteem, hedonic and eudemonic happiness, and innovativeness. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was applied to examines the assumed hypotheses. The results established that hotel employees perceived instrumental CSR has a significant positive influence on the satis...