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Of ever becoming : a design-based research study on devising intentional challenge interventions for personal growth
Kessler, Alexandra - 2021
four-step intervention following the devised approach could assist taking on challenge and using it as a vehicle for … comprising 256 participants currently in a context posing a challenge. Within each workshop, attendees take part in the four …-step process to clarify their status quo and devise an intentional challenge. Participants report improvements in their well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432045
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The dance between darkness and light : a systematic review of advertising's role in consumer well-being : 1980-2020
Gilbert, Jonathan Ross; Stafford, Marla Royne; Sheinin, … - In: International journal of advertising : the review of … 40 (2021) 4, pp. 491-528
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012586676
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Well-being of higher education consumers : a review and research agenda
Khatri, Puja; Duggal, Harshleen Kaur - In: International journal of consumer studies 46 (2022) 5, pp. 1564-1593
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411953
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Families, time and well-being in Canada
Burton, Peter; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
Using cross-sections of microdata from Surveys of Consumer Finance and Surveys of Labour and Income Dynamics, we document changes in the availability of time and money in Canadian two-parent families between 1971 and 2006 as the paid work hours of mothers have increased. While long hours of paid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335565
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Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos, Xavier - 2010
Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600914
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Lebenszufriedenheit am Ende des Lebens in Ost- und Westdeutschland: die DDR wirft einen langen Schatten
Gerstorf, Denis; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
"Die meisten Menschen sind die meiste Zeit über glücklich" stellt in einer Zusammenfassung vieler empirischer Studien Biswas-Diener (2009) fest. Sogar nach einschneidenden Negativerlebnissen wie Arbeitslosigkeit oder dem Verlust des Partners passen sich die meisten Menschen recht schnell an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600962
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The Selection of Pay Referents: Potential Patterns and Impacts on Life Satisfaction
Schneider, Simone - 2010
comparisons. These results challenge previous research suggesting that people are unconscious of the true impact of comparison …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600975
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Employed but Still Unhappy? On the Relevance of the Social Work Norm
Chadi, Adrian - 2011
In the modern welfare state, people who cannot make a living usually receive financial assistance from public funds. Accordingly, the so-called social work norm against living off other people is violated, which may be the reason why the unemployed are so unhappy. If so, however, labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600995
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Regional Unemployment and Norm-Induced Effects on Life Satisfaction
Chadi, Adrian - 2011
While rising unemployment generally reduces people's happiness, researchers argue that there is a compensating social-norm effect for the unemployed individual, who might suffer less when it is more common to be unemployed. This empirical study, however, rejects this thesis for German panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601029
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You Don't Know What You've Got till It's Gone! Unemployment and Intertemporal Changes in Self-Reported Life Satisfaction
Klemm, Marcus - 2011
This paper uses concurrently and - for the first time - retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to 1987 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the importance of different comparison standards for the empirical correlation of unemployment and subjective life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601063