Why ‘Nonexistent People’ Do Not Have Zero Wellbeing but No Wellbeing at All

But what is Wellbeing

Moderators of wellbeing interventions: Why do some people respond more positively than others?

Interventions rarely have a universal effect on all individuals. Reasons ranging from participant characteristics, context and fidelity of intervention completion could cause some people to respond more positively than others. Understanding these individual differences in intervention response may provide clues to the mechanisms behind the intervention, as well as inform future designs to make ...

Wellbeing for homeless people: a Salutogenic approach.

Homelessness affects considerable numbers in the UK and is caused by poverty and social exclusion. Much of the literature on housing and health is disease centric, where the experience of homelessness is described as traumatic, disempowering and socially isolating. Based on the Salutogenic approach, which calls for a positive orientation on health, the aim of this study was to explore the subje...

These Rights Have No Use? Forest Land Rights and the Economic and Subjective Wellbeing of Indigenous People in India

The formalization of rural people’s rights to agricultural and forest land is a key policy focus for many developing countries (Larson et al. 2010; Deininger and Hilhorst 2013). These reforms can improve marginalized people’s wellbeing by securing their hold on durable income-yielding assets, especially where land ownership is culturally prized (Holden et al. 2013; Lawry et al. 2014). However, ...

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