Essays about: "life satisfaction"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 245 essays containing the words life satisfaction.

  1. 1. Navigating the Happiness Economics Landscape: Mapping the Influences on Life Satisfaction and Possible Interventions

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Klendeta Bivolaku; Linn Hellqvist; [2023-06-29]
    Keywords : Happiness Economics; Personality traits; Life satisfaction; World Bank’s STEP survey; WVS; Double-lasso; Forward selection;

    Abstract : This study explores factors that influence subjective well-being in low- and middle-income countries by analysing unique individual- and country-level data. The study focuses on several unexplored determinants including personality traits, economic shocks and cultural differences. READ MORE

  3. 2. Social media and reference points: How people are affected by watching high economic status

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Filhage Wahlström Elias; [2023-06-29]
    Keywords : Social media; Reference points; Desires consumption; Labor supply; Life satisfaction;

    Abstract : This paper presents an experimental survey study investigating the potential effects of social media usage on economic perceptions and life satisfaction by influencing reference points. The prediction is that watching people with high economic status on social media raises reference points, resulting in increased preferences for consumption and salary. READ MORE

  4. 3. Does learning equal happiness? Research-based evidence on the impact of lifelong learning on subjective well-being

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Oleksandra Brashovetska; [2023]
    Keywords : subjective well-being; happiness; lifelong learning; education; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Discussions about changing the focus of assessing development progress from economic output to human well-being have sparked a rise in interest in the social sciences' research on subjective well- being in recent years. Such a transition necessitates investigating subjective well-being, its determinants, and how they interact with one another. READ MORE

  5. 4. Specialist nurses’ Compassion Fatigue and related factors in the aftermath of COVID-19 : A correlation survey

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för omvårdnad

    Author : Maria Spinola Pulido; Caroline Krylborn; [2023]
    Keywords : Compassion Fatigue; Compassion Satisfaction; Professional Quality of Life Scale; Perceived Organizational Support; turnover intention; Intensive Care Nurses; Nurse Anaesthetist; Empatitrötthet; medkänslatillfredsställelse; Professional Quality of Life Scale; upplevd organisatoriskt stöd; intention till egenuppsägning; Intensivvårdssjuksköterska; Anestesisjuksköterska.;

    Abstract : Background: Intensive Care and Anaesthetists Nurses are, through their profession and the COVID-19 pandemic, predisposed to suffering from Compassion Fatigue (CF). CF develops as stressors exceed the ability to cope with the demands of caring and has been associated with organisational factors. READ MORE

  6. 5. The role of compassion for meaning in life and life satisfaction

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Noëlle Anouk Liebe; Charlotta Olofsson; [2023]
    Keywords : self-compassion; compassion for others; meaning in life; life satisfaction; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study examined compassion for self and for others, and how these factors were related to meaning in life and life satisfaction among university students in Sweden. A total of 265 students from different faculties, most of them at Lund university, responded to a self-report questionnaire including the short form self-compassion scale (SCS-SF), the compassion scale (CS), the multidimensional existential meaning scale (MEMS) and the satisfaction with life scale (SWLS). READ MORE