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Affective Reactions to One’s Whole Life: Preliminary Development and Validation of the Ontological Well-Being Scale

Şimşek, Ömer; Kocayörük, Ercan - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 14 (2013) 1, pp. 309-343

In line with the perspective provided by the intentional paradigm which claims that the measures of subjective well-being (SWB), whether cognitive or affective, should refer to life itself, the Ontological Well-Being Scale (OWBS) has been operationalized. The research reported herein was aimed...

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Differences in How Trait Emotional Intelligence Predicts Life Satisfaction: The Role of Affect Balance Versus Social Support in India and Germany

Koydemir, Selda; Şimşek, Ömer; Schütz, Astrid; … - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 14 (2013) 1, pp. 51-66

In this study, we assessed cross-cultural differences in the extent to which general emotional intelligence is linked to life satisfaction and analyzed mediators of this relationship. We used data from an individualistic culture (Germany) and a collectivistic culture (India) and had university...

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The measurement of time and income poverty

Zacharias, Ajit - 2011

Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …

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Net government expenditures and the economic well-being of the elderly in the United States, 1989 - 2001

Kum, Hyunsub; Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit - 2006

We examine the economic well-being of the elderly, using the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW). Compared to the conventional measures of income, the LIMEW is a comprehensive measure that incorporates broader definitions of income from wealth, government expenditures, and...

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The Great Recession and racial inequality: Evidence from measures of economic well-being

Masterson, Thomas; Zacharias, Ajit; Rios-Avila, Fernando; … - 2017

The Great Recession had a tremendous impact on low-income Americans, in particular black and Latino Americans. The losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however, these losses are merely a continuation of trends that have...

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Happiness Revisited: Ontological Well-Being as a Theory-Based Construct of Subjective Well-Being

Şimşek, Ömer - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 10 (2009) 5, pp. 505-522

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An Intentional Model of Emotional Well-Being: The Development and Initial Validation of a Measure of Subjective Well-Being

Şimşek, Ömer - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 12 (2011) 3, pp. 421-442

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