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Martijn Burger
Sociology, general
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How Does More Attention to Subjective Well-Being Affect Subjective Well-Being?
There is an ongoing debate as to whether pursuing happiness is beneficial for people’s subjective well-being (SWB). To address this question, we tested whether attention to SWB – measured by participation in S...
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Open AccessThe Relations between Hope and Subjective Well-Being: a Literature Overview and Empirical Analysis
How we perceive the future can greatly affect how we feel in the present. Even a currently positive situation is hard to bear when we know the future will be grim. Indeed, previous research has found that more...
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Open AccessCharacterizing Hope: An Interdisciplinary Overview of the Characteristics of Hope
What we hope for has a large impact on how we feel and behave. Research on the determinants and effects of a hopeful disposition is increasing in several academic fields, such as psychology, nursing and organi...
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Open AccessHappy but Unequal: Differences in Subjective Well-Being across Individuals and Space in Colombia
Despite being on average a relatively happy country, Colombia has a high level of inequality in subjective well-being (SWB). Using Gallup World Poll data for the period from 2010 to 2018, this paper tests the ...
