The power of strength-oriented feedback enlightened by self-determination theory: a positive technology-based intervention
AbstractStrength interventions at work have been shown to influence workers ’ optimal functioning and well-being. To increase the accessibility of these interventions in the workplace, relying on digital platforms would be a realistic idea. Akin to the Character Strengths 360-degree feedback activity, a smartphone (and computer) application allows users to send or receive anonymous strength-oriented descriptive feedback to/from colleagues, hence disseminating the identification and use of each other’s signature strengths associated with their enacted behaviors. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory, an intervention was ...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - April 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Relationship Between Prosociality, Meaning, and Happiness in Everyday Life
AbstractProsocial behaviors benefit others, but what benefits do they hold for those who enact them? Prosociality can enhance the actor ’s well-being, yet whether it is one’s sense of happiness or meaning that is impacted, and how this plays out in everyday life, has received limited attention. We address this gap in knowledge by examining how prosociality is related to daily meaning and happiness across two large daily diary st udies in two countries. Study 1 (N = 1140) revealed that changes in one’ssubjective sense of prosociality was uniquely associated with both daily meaning and happiness. Study 2 (N = 2...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - April 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Does Strengths Use Mean Better Focus? Well-being and Attentional Performance at the Episodic Level
AbstractPositive psychology postulates that using one ’s strengths can facilitate employee well-being and performance at work. However, whether strengths use is associated with attentional performance has remained unanswered in the literature. Attention plays a role in job performance, and previous literature has suggested a contrasting link between well-being (i.e., positive affect) and attentional performance. We hypothesize that, within work episodes, strength use is positively associated with eudaimonic (i.e., meaningfulness and personal growth) and hedonic well-being (i.e., positive affect). Further, we test the epi...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - April 8, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
What Drives Happiness? The Interviewer ’s Happiness
In this study, we investigated the role of interviewers in the measurement of happiness. We were particularly interested in whether the interviewer ’s happiness correlates with the respondent’s happiness. Our data comes from a face-to-face survey conducted in Hungary, which included the attitudes of both respondents and interviewers. The results of the multilevel regression models showed that interviewers account for a significant amount of variance in responses obtained from respondents, even after controlling for a range of characteristics of both respondents, interviewers, and settlements. We also found that respond...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - April 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Vicarious Experiences of Major Discrimination and the Life Satisfaction of Black and White Adults from a Community Sample
AbstractThe racism-related stress framework argues that racism can influence the well-being of individuals through personal and vicarious experiences of discrimination, but studies on racism and health have primarily focused on understanding how personally experienced discrimination shapes these outcomes. Using data from the Nashville Stress and Health Study (N = 1,252) the present study examines the racial differences in vicarious experiences of major discrimination among Black and non-Hispanic White adults from a community sample. Additionally, given longstanding evidence of racial disparities in life satisfaction, ...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - April 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A New Second-Generation Mindfulness-Based Intervention Focusing on Well-Being: A Randomized Control Trial of Mindfulness-Based Positive Psychology
This study developed a mindfulness-based positive psychology (MBPP) intervention integrating positive psychology with an SG-MBI to enhance well-being. A randomized control trial was performed to compare MBPP with a waitlist condition among 138 Chinese participants. The results showed that MBPP significantly reduced negative emotions for subjective well-being and significantly improved environmental mastery for psychological well-being. Improvements in self-compassion and negative attitudes but not avoidance, mediated changes in well-being. Changes in positive emotions, positive relations, and awareness were associated with...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - April 2, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Happy to Know You: An Examination of Subjective Well-Being and Partner Knowledge
In this study, we examined an unexplored type of partner knowledge —familiarity with partners’ subjective well-being (i.e., SWB familiarity). Using multilevel models, we analyzed data from 101 heterosexual couples to examine how SWB was associated with partner knowledge and to determine whether SWB familiarity was associated with relationship and mental health benefits. We found that higher levels of positive affect and life satisfaction and lower levels of negative affect were associated with greater normative and distinctive accuracy in partner knowledge of attitudes and traits. We also calculated both normative and ...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - April 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Well-being Changes from Year to Year: A Comparison of Current, Remembered and Predicted Life Satisfaction
AbstractI study yearly changes in personal well-being combining data on current, retrospective and prospective life satisfaction from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Predicted and remembered changes in life satisfaction are both positive on average and match well, whereas the average year to year-change inferred from reports of current life satisfaction is negative. Retrospective assessments of past well-being are strongly influenced by current life satisfaction, significantly related to past life satisfaction and linked to past predictions of current satisfaction. Due to different problems related to the ordinal measurem...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - April 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Correction to: Is There a Mineral-Induced ‘Economic Euphoria’?: Evidence from Latin America
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Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - April 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Study Burnout and Engagement During COVID-19 Among University Students: The Role of Demands, Resources, and Psychological Needs
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic forced most universities to switch from in-person to remote teaching from May 2020 to May 2021. This period covered three semesters of studies, and due to these changes students experienced fundamental changes in their learning. The present research was carried out 3 times during the pandemic (e.g., May 2020, December 2020, and April 2021) to investigate study engagement and burnout, and their associations with various demands, resources, and psychological needs among university students. Self-reports were collected from 1501, 1526, and 1685 university students in Helsinki. The results showed ...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - April 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Whence the Happiness Revolution? A Book Review of Richard Easterlin ’s An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness
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Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - April 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A Book Review of Richard Easterlin ’s An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness
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Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - April 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
An Extended Replication Study of the Well-Being Intervention, the Noticing Nature Intervention (NNI)
AbstractThe current study is an expanded replication study examining the efficacy of a modified version of Passmore and Holder ’s (2017) nature-based well-being intervention, the Noticing Nature Intervention (NNI). Undergraduates (N = 173) from a university in China were randomly assigned to engage in the NNI for 2 weeks (i.e., pay attention to, and provide a brief description of, how the everyday nature you encounter makes you feel) or to engage in one of two active control conditions. Both quantitative and qualitative fi ndings replicated previous results. At the end of the 2-week intervention, compared to control ...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - March 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Intermarriage on Subjective Social Status and Spousal Dissimilarity in Life Satisfaction of Co-resident Heterosexual South African Couples
AbstractThe aim of this study is to determine how intermarriage on subjective social status is associated with spousal dissimilarity in life satisfaction in co-resident heterosexual couples in South Africa. We apply fixed effect ordered logit regression models to a sample of 8652 married and cohabiting dyads constructed from the longitudinal and nationally representative South African National Income Dynamics Study. We find no spousal dissimilarity in overall life satisfaction under pure homogamy. In wife advantaged and currently hypogamic relationships females are more satisfied with life than their male partners, whereas...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - March 22, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Nostalgia, Gratitude, or Optimism: The Impact of a Two-Week Intervention on Well-Being During COVID-19
AbstractResearch indicates that brief 2-min positive psychology interventions (PPIs) increase well-being during COVID-19 lockdowns. The present study extended this to assess the effectiveness over two-weeks. Participants (n = 150) were randomly allocated to one of three PPIs; nostalgia, gratitude, best possible self (BPS), or control. The interventions were slightly adapted for the lockdown and were completed three times, every seven days over two-weeks. Well-being measures were completed immediately after the fir st intervention (T1), after the next two interventions (T2−T3) and at one-week follow-up (T4) (but no ba...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - March 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
