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Showing 1 to 20 of 640 for “"Happiness"”.
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Problematising ‘happiness’: A critical explanation of the UK’s happiness agenda
Issues of ‘wellbeing’ and ‘happiness’ are becoming more and more prevalent in discussions of social policy and in the provision of healthcare services. In recent years, the maximisation of a nation’s ‘happiness’ has emerged as both a key policy objective and as a central focus within social, …
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The Quest for Happiness
The desire to attain happiness is inescapable for every human being and, as such, it has always been a central matter of discussion in the history of philosophy. Many philosophers advanced different theories and put forward specific notions of happiness. Some of these call for a positive account on …
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The Discipline of Happiness
A deeply personal Journey, “The Discipline of Happiness” blends fundamental philosophy with the power of visual art. In a 42‐year quest for purpose certain theories have been tried, championed, discredited, and discarded. The distillation of these ideas into my current theory provides, more …
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The Discipline of Happiness
A deeply personal Journey, “The Discipline of Happiness” blends fundamental philosophy with the power of visual art. In a 42‐year quest for purpose certain theories have been tried, championed, discredited, and discarded. The distillation of these ideas into my current theory provides, more …
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Philosophy as a Path to Happiness : Attainment of Happiness in Arabic Peripatetic and Ismaili Philosophy
… to explore the idea of philosophy as a path to happiness in classical Arabic philosophy. The starting point is in comparison of two distinct currents between the 10th and early 11th centuries, Peripatetic philosophy, represented by al-Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā, and Ismaili philosophy represented by …
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The Inescapable Quest for Happiness: Exploring How the Ideology of Happiness Shapes the Contemporary Consumer Marketplace
This paper draws attention to the ideology of happiness and examines how it structures a marketplace. The quest for happiness has an extensive presence in contemporary Western culture (Burnett 2012) and is ubiquitous in the context of the marketplace. Prior happiness research conceptualizes …
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Pedestrian Accessibility and Individual’s Subjective Happiness
Cities in many countries are taking steps to use happiness as a formal policy measure of well-being, in addition to more commonly used economic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product. Economists and public policy and public health scholars have researched the factors that are associated with …
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Marital Status and Happiness, 1972-1996
… that married persons have higher levels of happiness that persons in other marital categories. In recent years, there has been some debate over whether marriage still involves significant advantages. In 1988, a study by Glenn and Weaver using U.S. national survey data, indicated that there …
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Can positive self-talk alter one's happiness?
… and the effect it can have on people and their happiness level. In this study there were a total of thirteen subjects who attended classes to exam their self-talk and develop skills in using positive self-talk. The subjects took a pretest to establish the degree of their happiness and they took …
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Social Context and the Pathways to Happiness
Quantitative studies of human happiness often assume that the determinants of happiness are universal across time and place, reflecting inherent psychological needs. This dissertation challenges this assumption, exploring the idea that the determinants of happiness vary across social contexts. …
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Happiness Advantage: The Impact on School Culture
… is to analyze the implementation of the Happiness Advantage principles (Achor, 2011) to address the mental well-being for all school district employees. In addition to Happiness Advantage Training (Achor, 2011), the study seeks to determine if the implementation of positive psychology …
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Happiness and Policy Implications: A Sociological View
<p>The World Happiness Report is released every year, ranking each country by who is “happier” and explaining the variables and data they have used. This project attempts to build from that base and create a machine learning algorithm that can predict if a country will be in a “happy” or “could be …
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Walking the City of Cape Town: (un)happiness
This dissertation examines the politics of happiness in the postcolonial city, situating Cape Town as a critical site for interrogating its meanings, limits, and possibilities. While happiness has often been framed as a measurable state of well-being or a commodity of neoliberal governance, this …
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Measuring and Manipulating Indices of Happiness and Unhappiness
… of the current study were to define indices of happiness and unhappiness, assess their occurrence in different activities, and introduce environmental variables to assess the extent to which indices of happiness and unhappiness would change. Results showed that indices of happiness and …
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Aristotle and the Cynics on happiness and misfortune
… of ancient ethics is the question concerning happiness. As Aristotle famously poses it in EN I, that everyone is concerned with happiness is given but as to what it is there is much dispute. My dissertation project takes up the question of happiness and considers its relation to fortune, and …
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Happiness in the catbird seat : conversations with CEOs
… society aspire towards. But what defines happiness once you are there? When you are sitting in Thurber's proverbial "catbird seat," what is happiness? In conversations with 18 senior leaders of Fortune 1000 companies, guided by scripted questions posed by the author, the leaders responded …
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Dimensions of Well-Being: Earnings, Happiness and Domestic Violence
… over the life course. It estimates age-happiness profiles and it focusses more specifically on the identification of linear age effects, in a life satisfaction equation which also includes linear cohort and period effects. As in the first chapter, this chapter also accounts for selective …
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Does Sense of Community Predict Happiness and Well-Being?
… the relationship between sense of community and happiness in the context of a religious community whose members come from 44 different towns to their base at the Shrine of St. Joseph, Stirling, New Jersey. Survey respondents (N = 83) completed measures of happiness, depression, and sense of …
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