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Open AccessThe impact of changing engineering perceptions on women’s attitudes and behavioral intentions towards engineering pursuits
Women are underrepresented in the field of engineering within academic and professional settings. Based upon premises outlined by social role theory and goal congruity theory, a key factor that contributes to ...
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Well-being: the Ultimate Criterion for Organizational Sciences
For too long, organizational science has implicitly or explicitly endorsed job performance as the ultimate criterion (or the bottom line for organizational performance). We propose that a broader vision of wel...
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Open AccessThe online language of work-personal conflict
With the blurring of boundaries in this digital age, there is increasing concern around work-personal conflict. Assessing and tracking work-personal conflict is critical as it not only affects individual worke...
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A Meta-Analysis of Religion/Spirituality and Life Satisfaction
Human engagement with religion and spirituality is pervasive across the world, yet the extent to which religious and/or spiritual involvement promotes well-being is controversial theoretically and empirically....
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Open AccessHead versus heart: social media reveals differential language of loneliness from depression
We study the language differentially associated with loneliness and depression using 3.4-million Facebook posts from 2986 individuals, and uncover the statistical associations of survey-based depression and lo...
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Building Community Well-Being in Higher Education: An Introduction to the Special Issue
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Open AccessThe impact of the Syrian conflict on population well-being
The United Nations described the Syrian conflict as the worst man-made disaster since World War II. We adopted a global perspective in examining the impact of the Syrian conflict on Syrians’ physical, mental, ...
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Open AccessThe Role of Positive Expectations for Resilience to Adverse Events: Subjective Well-Being Before, During and After the Greek Bailout Referendum
Can positive expectations help foster resiliency against adversity? In this study, we used high-frequency panel data, to examine how positive as compared to neutral and negative expectations can buffer the neg...
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The development and validation of the Attitudinal Learning Inventory (ALI): a measure of attitudinal learning and instruction
In this paper, we present the development and validation of a new measure of attitudinal learning—the Attitudinal Learning Inventory (ALI). While specific scales are available for measuring attitudes, they lar...
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Advances in subjective well-being research
The empirical science of subjective well-being, popularly referred to as happiness or satisfaction, has grown enormously in the past decade. In this Review, we selectively highlight and summarize key researche...
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Happiness, income satiation and turning points around the world
Income is known to be associated with happiness 1 , but debates persist about the exact nature of this relationship 2,3 . Does happiness rise ...
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Debt and Subjective Well-being: The Other Side of the Income-Happiness Coin
To spur research on the topic of debt and its consequences, we conducted a systematic review to integrate the different conceptualizations of debt and to develop a conceptual model explaining mechanisms throug...
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The Impact of Scale Transformations on National Subjective Well-Being Scores
Nation-level subjective well-being (SWB) indicators (e.g., happiness and life satisfaction) have received increased interest among researchers and policy makers. This increased interest has led to questions ab...
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Domain Satisfaction as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Work–Family Spillover and Subjective Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study
Despite greater recognition that public and workplace policies are needed to facilitate work–family integration, scarce evidence exists on whether and how work–family spillover relates to future subjective wel...
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Satisfaction and Happiness – The Bright Side of Quality of Life
Researchers and policy makers have become increasingly interested in using happiness or subjective wellbeing (SWB) as an index of quality of life. We examine the utility of using SWB as a social indicator, arg...
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The Metrics of Societal Happiness
Growing interest in the measurement of subjective well-being (SWB) has also been accompanied by scientific debate on the optimal method for measuring SWB. The momentary perspective, which is represented by the...
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Leisure and Subjective Well-Being: A Model of Psychological Mechanisms as Mediating Factors
Leisure is a key life domain and a core ingredient for overall well-being. Yet, within positive psychology, its definition and the psychological pathways by which it evokes happiness are elusive (Diener and Bi...
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Review of the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM)
The Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) for assessing daily experience and subjective well-being is reviewed. The DRM is a promising method as it assesses feelings within situations and activities, and therefore g...
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Religiosity and Subjective Well-Being: An International Perspective
To what extent does religiosity relate to subjective well-being (SWB) across the world? We review empirical evidence from both Western and non-Western nations and it points to a pan-cultural positive relation ...
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Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales
National accounts of subjective well-being are being considered and adopted by nations. In order to be useful for policy deliberations, the measures of life satisfaction must be psychometrically sound. The rel...
