This study investigated pre- to post-disaster changes in happiness of 491 women affected by Hurricane Katrina, and identified factors that were associated with the survivors' happiness after the storm. Participants completed surveys approximately 1 year before and 1 and 4 years after the storm. The surveys collected information on the women's happiness, social support, household characteristics...

Research on happiness has been conducted for many decades with various interesting results reported by different groups of researchers. While there is a plethora of research efforts on happiness in general, there is little work being done to study the effects of online social networks on happiness. This is mainly due to the relative (in)maturity of online social networking as it has only been a...

many jobs have stressful situations. burn out will occurred when$ job stress is high and no action takes for coping with it. in present survey$ the effectiveness of fordyce's happiness cognitive - behavioral model if happiness were studied on decreasing burn out of social workers. 24 samples were randomly selected among the social workers with low burnout grades$ and divided in two groups ...

background happiness is one of the most important factors affecting women's mental health. several factors contribute to happiness in different societies. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the level of happiness in married women and its related factors. materials and methods this was a cross-sectional study with stratified sampling proportional to different age groups of marri...

It’s of great importance to measure happiness of social network users, but the existing method based on questionnaires suffers from high costs and low efficiency. This paper aims at identifying social network users’ happiness level based on their Web behav ior. We recruited 548 participants to fill in the Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI) and divided them into two groups with high/low OHI score....

The association between happiness and social relationships was examined in 9to 12-year-old children. Participants included 432 children and their parents. Children’s happiness was assessed using self-rating scales, parent’s ratings, and the Happiness and Satisfaction Subscale from the Piers-Harris Children’s Self-Concept Scale, Second Edition (Piers and Herzberg 2002). Children’s social relatio...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to examine the associations of both objectively assessed and perceived physical and social neighborhood characteristics with happiness in European adults. In addition, we aimed to study how these associations differed among subgroups. METHODS Participants (N = 6037) of the cross-sectional SPOTLIGHT survey reported on their level of happiness using a 5-point Likert scale, a...

The recent proliferation of studies examining cross-national variation in the association between parenthood and happiness reveal accumulating evidence of lower levels of happiness among parents than nonparents in most advanced industrialized societies. Conceptualizing parenting as a stressor buffered by institutional support, we hypothesize that parental status differences in happiness are sma...