Well-Being in Nations and Well-Being of Nations

Determinants of subjective well-being in representative samples of nations.

Background Maximising the happiness and life satisfaction [i.e. subjective well-being (SWB)] of citizens is a fundamental goal of international governmental organizations' policies. In order to decide what policies should be pursued in order to improve SWB there is a need to identify what the key drivers of SWB are. However, to date most studies have been conducted in unrepresentative samples o...

Determinants of subjective well-being in representative samples of nations

Background: Maximising the happiness and life satisfaction (i.e., subjective wellbeing) of citizens is a fundamental goal of international governmental organizations’ policies. In order to decide what policies should be pursued in order to improve subjective well-being (SWB) there is a need to identify what the key drivers of SWB are. However, to date most studies have been conducted in unrepre...

Rising income and the subjective well-being of nations.

We explored whether rising income in nations is associated with increasing subjective well-being (SWB), with several advances over earlier work. Our methods are improved in that across time, the same well-being questions were asked in the same order, and we employed broad and equivalent representative samples over time from a large number of nations. We also assessed psychosocial factors that m...

Comparing Well-being across Nations: Conceptual and Empirical Issues

Survey the level of well-being and Psychometric characteristics of hospital nurses’ well-being at work

Background and Aims: mental health problems is common among nurses, because they must face to stressors of their workplace which include work-rest cycle problems, overload responsibility, financial problems, lack of vacation time, pressures of work, patient communication frameworks  and painful experiences of patients. Based on previous researches psychological resiliency can help them to appro...