Situated in China's market transition, this study examines the relationship between economic sector and a worker's happiness in post-reform urban China. Using datasets from the Chinese General Social Surveys 2003, 2006 and 2008, we find that workers in the state sector enjoy a subjective premium in well-being - reporting significantly higher levels of happiness than their counterparts in the pr...

avicenna has presented some divisions of happiness: at the first he defines it as favorite thing per se (intrinsically), and goal in itself. he divides also happiness in one respect into two kinds; the first one is happiness in relation to different powers of soul, and the other is happiness in relation to soul itself. from the other viewpoint he divides happiness into bodily and spiritual and ...

What is happiness? Is happiness about feeling good or being good? Across 5 studies, we explored the nature and origins of our concept developmentally cross-linguistically. We found that surprisingly, children as young age 4 viewed morally bad people less happy than people, even if characters all have positive subjective states (Study 1). Moral character did not affect attributions physical trai...

OBJECTIVES Bullying and being bullied have been recognized as health problems for children because of their association with adjustment problems, including poor mental health and more extreme violent behavior. It is therefore important to understand how bullying and being bullied affect the well-being and adaptive functioning of youth. We sought to use multiple data sources to better understand...

SAT solvers have grown in power over the last decades. However, both certain intentions of their application and the complexity of the problems are still obstacles to their successful utilization. Here we are facing a problem where an extremely small fraction of solutions must be found in the unimaginably large search space of more than 10. Up to now SAT solvers were able to find solutions for ...

Users’ preferences and values in urban parks is important information for establishing social marketing strategies therefore policymakers to consider. This study investigates the issue by analyzing media data. User-generated data were collected from Instagram content analysis was employed identify physical features people assigned text descriptions of posts. Findings revealed that natural are m...

General psychosocial measures are assumed to be stable over time. However, such may affected by the situation preceding assessment. In this study 28 participants completed WHO-5 Well-Being Index, Subjective Happiness Scale, and Life Orientation Test which general measures, Positive Affect Negative Schedule Feeling Scale state measures. Subsequently, first part of ‘Mega Disasters Nagasaki The Fo...

The authors propose a theoretical model linking achievement goals and achievement emotions to academic performance. This model was tested in a prospective study with undergraduates (N 213), using exam-specific assessments of both goals and emotions as predictors of exam performance in an introductory-level psychology course. The findings were consistent with the authors’ hypotheses and supporte...