Using wellbeing for public policy: Theory, measurement, and recommendations

A Adler, MEP Seligman - International …, 2016 - internationaljournalofwellbeing.org
Indicators of social progress are the primary drivers of public policy. If existing economic
measures of prosperity are complemented with wellbeing metrics that better capture …

Living alone during COVID-19: Social contact and emotional well-being among older adults

KL Fingerman, YT Ng, S Zhang, K Britt… - The Journals of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objective The COVID-19 outbreak and associated physical distancing measures altered the
social world for most older adults, but people who live alone may have been …

New ways of working: Impact on working conditions, work–family balance, and well-being

E Demerouti, D Derks, LL Ten Brummelhuis… - The impact of ICT on …, 2014 - Springer
Organizations have started to redesign their approach to work by integrating technological
innovations in their daily practices. Central to this new approach is that employees are …

Attachment styles and happiness in the elderly: the mediating role of reminiscence styles

K Momeni, R Amani, P Janjani, MR Majzoobi… - BMC geriatrics, 2022 - Springer
Background The current study aims to investigate the relationship between attachment
styles and happiness through the mediating role of reminiscence styles in the elderly …

Motivating employees to work beyond retirement: A multi‐level study of the role of I‐deals and unit climate

PM Bal, SB De Jong, PGW Jansen… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
abstract The present study investigates what role I‐deals (ie the idiosyncratic deals made
between employees and their organization) play in the motivation of employees to continue …

Well-being, context, and everyday activities in space and time

T Schwanen, D Wang - Annals of the Association of American …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Against the background of increased interest in subjectively experienced well-being in
economics, psychology, and the social sciences, this article analyzes how such well-being is …

Touching the social robot PARO reduces pain perception and salivary oxytocin levels

N Geva, F Uzefovsky, S Levy-Tzedek - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Human-human social touch improves mood and alleviates pain. No studies have so far
tested the effect of human-robot emotional touch on experimentally induced pain ratings, on …

State authenticity in everyday life

AP Lenton, L Slabu… - European Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
We examined the components and situational correlates of state authenticity to clarify the
construct's meaning and improve understanding of authenticity's attainment. In Study 1, we …

Burnout among pilots: psychosocial factors related to happiness and performance at simulator training

E Demerouti, W Veldhuis, C Coombes, R Hunter - Ergonomics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In this study among airline pilots, we aim to uncover the work characteristics (job demands
and resources) and the outcomes (job crafting, happiness and simulator training …

How feeling happy during off-job activities helps successful recovery from work: A day reconstruction study

WGM Oerlemans, AB Bakker, E Demerouti - Work & Stress, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This diary study builds on the effort-recovery and broaden-and-build theories to examine
whether the subjective experience of off-job activities (work-related, household, social …