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Living Alone in the City: Differentials in Subjective Well-Being Among Single Households 1995 –2018
AbstractOver the past decades, the number of single households is constantly rising in metropolitan regions. In addition, they became increasingly heterogeneous. In the media, individuals who live alone are sometimes still presented as deficient. Recent research, however, indicates a way more complex picture. Using the example of Vienna, this paper investigates the quality of life of different groups of single households in the city. Based on five waves of the Viennese Quality of Life Survey covering almost a quarter of a century (1995 –2018), we analyse six domains of subjective well-being (satisfaction with the financi...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - May 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Differences in Multi-Dimensional Well-Being Among Factory Workers: Evidence from Six Countries
AbstractThis paper presents cross-cultural comparisons of well-being among factory workers, as measured by the six well-being domains of happiness and life satisfaction, physical and mental health, meaning and purpose, character and virtue, close social relationships, and financial and material stability. Relative ranks of well-being domains across examined groups of workers are also compared. Results are based on survey data from factory workers in Cambodia, China, Mexico, Poland, Sri Lanka, and the United States. Average well-being scores are higher among factory workers in Mexico, China, and Cambodia than in the U.S., P...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - May 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Integration Effect on Rural Migrants ’ Settlement Intention in Urban China
AbstractThe integration experiences of migrants are intricately connected to their quality of life and influence their settlement decisions. This paper goes beyond the conventional research by investigating the distinct roles of integration dimensions and their interactions in determining settlement intention, using a sample of 12,252 migrants collected from eight districts/cities in China. It is revealed that economic integration, cultural adaptation, social engagement, and psychological identification positively influence settlement intention, but with different effects. Among these integration domains, social engagement...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - May 23, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

The Recent Dangers for European Happiness: Is Homeostatic Resilience Sufficient?
AbstractIn the literature on life satisfaction the author came across the hypothesis that happiness oscillates around a set point given by nurture and nature. This assumption implicitly supposes a homeostatic mechanism, which implies resilience against unhappiness. The present paper aims at the exploration and quantitative description of this resilience at the national level, which may be challenged by military conflicts, pandemics, energy crises, etc. In particular, the researcher would like to know, for which European countries the postulated resilience really exists, where the related national set points are, and whethe...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - May 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

50 Years of Character Assessment: A Scoping Review of Psychometric Instruments Measuring Character or Virtues
AbstractThe positive psychology movement has reintroduced the concepts of character and virtue to the study of individual differences. Over the past few decades, a variety of instruments have been developed to measure character and virtue. We conducted a scoping review of psychometric instruments intended to measure an individual ’s character or virtues published after 1970. Our review found 41 instruments, described across 641 publications. The vast majority of the publications used the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and the Values In Action (VIA) instruments. The instruments identified in our review are rece...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - May 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

A Qualitative Method to Examine the Positive Impact of a Storytelling Intervention in Reducing Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Young Schoolchildren
This study is the first to investigate the positive impact of a storytelling intervention based on the social information processing model in reducing reactive and proactive aggression among schoolchildren. The participants were 4,086 Grade 1 to 4 students from 15 randomly selected elementary schools in Hong Kong. Using the Reactive –Proactive Aggression Questionnaire, 371 schoolchildren at risk of aggression were identified based on scores of one standard deviation above the mean and randomly assigned to the experimental, placebo, and control groups. Children’s anger, social communication skills, empathy, and forgiven...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - May 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Life Satisfaction and Socio-Economic Vulnerability: Evidence from the Basic Income Experiment in Barcelona
AbstractThis work focuses on the implications of introducing a variation of a Basic Income for individuals in grim socio-economic conditions in Barcelona (Spain). We explore the happiness and socio-psychological imprint of living in material deprivation in a metropolitan city. Surveying people who joined the two-year Municipal Inclusion Support (MIS) scheme launched by the Municipality of Barcelona, we first identify the major constructs that contribute to recipients ’ subjective well-being, paying particular attention to the sense of socio-economic vulnerability. Secondly, we explore the way beneficiaries’ subjective ...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - May 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

A Qualitative Method to Examine the Positive Impact of a Storytelling Intervention in Reducing Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Young Schoolchildren
This study is the first to investigate the positive impact of a storytelling intervention based on the social information processing model in reducing reactive and proactive aggression among schoolchildren. The participants were 4,086 Grade 1 to 4 students from 15 randomly selected elementary schools in Hong Kong. Using the Reactive –Proactive Aggression Questionnaire, 371 schoolchildren at risk of aggression were identified based on scores of one standard deviation above the mean and randomly assigned to the experimental, placebo, and control groups. Children’s anger, social communication skills, empathy, and forgiven...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - May 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Exploring the Work-Life Spillover of Voice Practices: The Role of Voice Instrumentality in Improving the Quality of Employees ’ Lives
This study responds to recent human resource management and quality of life scholars’ calls for uncovering whether the micro-level processes of employees’ experiences related to the voice system can “spill over” from the organizational domain to the non-work domain and how the instrumental aspect of the voice system improves employees ’ quality of life. (Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life)
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - April 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research