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Conceptions of Happiness Matter: Relationships between Fear and Fragility of Happiness and Mental and Physical Wellbeing
Wellbeing has become an increasingly important priority worldwide. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), much research and financial investment are...
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Cross-Cultural Psychometric Analysis of the Mature Happiness Scale-Revised: Mature Happiness, Psychological Inflexibility, and the PERMA Model
The present study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Mature Happiness Scale, a measure focused on inner harmony. Mature happiness...
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What Drives Happiness? The Interviewer’s Happiness
Interviewers in face-to-face surveys can potentially introduce bias both in the recruiting and the measurement phase. One reason behind this is that...
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Differentiating Optimists from Pessimists in the Prediction of Emotional Intelligence, Happiness, and Life Satisfaction: A Latent Profile Analysis
What are the differences between optimists and pessimists? The aim of this study is to analyze the differences reported by optimists and pessimists...
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The Role of Financial Fragility and Financial Control for Well-Being
Financial fragility is recognized as a substantial issue for individual well-being. Various estimates show that between 46 and 59% of American adults...
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Living Ecologically: Understanding and Respecting Complexity and Fragility
This chapter explores learning from ecological authors including Rachael Carson, Gregory Bateson, Arne Naess, Donella Meadows, Tim Morton Bruno...
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Economy of Consumption : Starting with Lipovetsky and Bauman
This chapter is dedicated to the theme of the economy, or rather to the theme of consumption, as the main social and individual reference of the...
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Tourism marketing, ileity and the construction of a real ideality
This study delves into the realm of island marketing, challenging prevailing assumptions held by potential mainland and urban tourists. It adopts a...
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Vulnerability in Old Age. The Fragility of Inappropriately Protected Interests
Protecting the vulnerable is recognized as important; but who is vulnerable and what protections are needed? Six definitions of vulnerability are...
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Root Causes of Irregular Migration in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of Afghans and Syrians
This chapter evaluates the initiation and perpetuation of migratory flows from Afghanistan and Syria to Europe, which operate through the Eastern...
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My Visit to the University of Negative Capability
Writing is not like this: sitting down, turning on the computer, putting ideas on the keyboard for a few hours, switching off the PC and moving on to...
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Politics of Subjectivity: Starting with Lasch and Beck
This chapter is dedicated to politics, in the way in which it evolves more and more into “politics of subjectivity” and renounces the commitment not...
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Aristotelian Flourishing and Contemporary Philosophical Theories of Wellbeing
Several philosophical theories of wellbeing claim Aristotelian ancestry and employ an Aristotelian construct of flourishing. Yet it is not clear how...
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On Keynes’s Ethics as Eudaimonia
In ethics, John Maynard Keynes distinguishes between speculative ethics and practical ethics or morals. Speculative ethics concerns ultimate ends and...
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The Neoliberal Virus
Zoonoses and endemic diseases proliferate as a consequence of the ruthless globalization of nature. By losing its heterogeneity and situatedness,...
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Normative Reciprocity, Relational Sociology, and the Critique of Forms of Social Life
In the frame of sociological studies of the last thirty years, Relational Sociology (RS) represents not only an ontological, epistemological, and...
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“Strange and Wild”: Towards an Aesthetics of Ambivalence
I conclude with a close reading of Maggie Nelson’s work of ‘auto-theory,’ The Argonauts (2015). Here, I employ a framework of ambivalence to argue...
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Old and New Questions for Sociology: The Global Importance of the Sociology of Emotions
This essay presents the sociology of emotions as a device to search for answers to the questions that the post-pandemic reality triggers. To achieve...
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Mobility, Belonging and the Utopia of a Borderless World: A Spatial and Identitarian Reading of Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers
This chapter examines the functionality of boundaries in Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers (2016), a novel that offers thought-provoking images of...