OBJECTIVE This study examined whether a wellbeing approach to resilience and adaptation would provide practical insights for prioritizing support to communities experiencing environmental and socio-economic stressors. METHODS A cross-sectional survey, based on a purposive sample of 2,196 stakeholders (landholders, hobby farmers, town resident and change agents) from three irrigation-dependent...

Baby-boomers of Korea Baby-boomers were the major social force for Korea's modernization process in the 70s and 80s, and now middle aged, late 40s and mid-50s. This age cohort has been playing an important role of taking charge in the wellbeing of other family members as well as their work fields. Therefore, the massive retirement of the babyboomers is expected to influence not only the individ...

This thesis set out to develop, examine, and test differing theoretical models of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB). SWB is the subjective evaluation of an individual’s satisfaction with life. Early research into SWB found objective conditions, such as age, education, and gender, were only weakly related to SWB. As such, researchers proposed dispositional tendencies to explain the large amount of unac...

In this study, we integrate different research streams—attachment, social identity, and organizational citizenship behavior—to have a better understanding of determinants of individual subjective wellbeing in the context of a virtual community (VC). Attachment is an emotion-laden, target-specific bond between a person and a specific object. Attachment is an important predictor of citizenship be...

The transition to adulthood is a major life course transition that can pose risk to wellbeing. Research is needed to identify patterns of risk for compromised wellbeing, in order to best identify supports for individuals during this potentially vulnerable transition. The purpose of this study was to identify profiles of risk in an emerging adulthood sample, and to relate these profiles to menta...

BACKGROUND Urinary tract infection (UTI) is among the most common bacterial infections in women of all ages but the incidence increases with older age. Despite the fact that UTI is a common problem it is still poorly investigated regarding its connection with experienced health and morale. The aim of this study was to explore the impact of a diagnosed, symptomatic urinary tract infection (UTI) ...

The article reviews the current theory and measurement of subjective wellbeing (SWB). The first two sections discuss growing efforts in many countries to measure and monitor national wellbeing, particularly in the United Kingdom. The third and fourth sections discuss the novelty and controversies about SWB research. It concludes that a critical approach is essential in evaluating SWB research b...

in macroeconomic studies, social welfare is assumed as a function of inflation and unemployment. although the social welfare function which is dependent to unemployment and inflation variables has been used widely in macroeconomic theories, but this relation needs to be tested through empirical observations. this paper, using variables such as to economics of happiness area and subjective wellb...

Satisfaction with life correlates with other measures of subjective wellbeing and correlates predictably with individual characteristics and overall health. Social indicators and subjective wellbeing measures are necessary to evaluate a society and can be used to produce national indicators of happiness. This study therefore aims to help close the gap in wellbeing data for Thailand. The specifi...