Christian Welzel,Ronald Inglehart
Christian Welzel
This paper argues that feelings of agency are linked to human well-being through a sequence of adaptive mechanisms that promote human development, once existential conditions become permissive. In the first part, we elaborate on the evoluti...
Ruut Veenhoven
Ruut Veenhoven
Human society has changed much over the last centuries and this process of 'modernization' has profoundly affected the lives of individuals; currently we live quite different lives from those forefathers lived only five generations ago. The...
Jeroen Klomp,Jakob de Haan
Jeroen Klomp
We examined the health status of 171 countries by employing factor analysis on various national health indicators for the period 2000-2005 to construct two new measures on health. The first measure is based on the health of individuals and ...
Hilde Coffé,Tanja van der Lippe
Hilde Coffé
Research on Eastern Europe stresses the weakness of its civil society and the lack of political and social involvement, neglecting the question: What do people themselves think it means to be a good citizen? This study looks at citizens' de...
Ethnic Intermarriage and Social Cohesion. What Can We Learn from Yugoslavia? [0.03%]
民族通婚与社会凝聚力。我们能从南斯拉夫那里学到什么？
Jeroen Smits
Jeroen Smits
Social cohesion theory is tested using data on ethnic intermarriage in former Yugoslavia. Before the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the proportion of marriages outside the own ethnic group was generally low, but in this respect large differe...
Jeffrey James,Mila Versteeg
Jeffrey James
Mobile phones are a crucial mode of communication and welfare enhancement in poor countries, especially those lacking an infrastructure of fixed lines. In recent years much has been written about how mobile telephony in Africa is rapidly re...
An Exploration of the Burnout Situation on Teachers in Two Schools in Macau [0.03%]
澳门两所学校教师职业倦怠状况的探究
Andrew L Luk,Bessie P S Chan,Selwyne W Cheong et al.
Andrew L Luk et al.
To explore the burnout situation of teachers in two schools in Macau and to investigate any differences made of demographic characteristics. The relation of burnout on social problem solving and holistic health of teachers is also studied. ...
Life Satisfaction, Positive Youth Development, and Problem Behaviour Among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong [0.03%]
香港中国青少年的生活满意度，积极正向的发展和问题行为之间的关系
Rachel C F Sun,Daniel T L Shek
Rachel C F Sun
This paper examines the relationships among life satisfaction, positive youth development, and problem behaviour. A total of 7,975 Secondary One students (4,169 boys and 3,387 girls; with most aged 12) of Chinese ethnicity recruited from 48...
Intra-household work time synchronization: Togetherness or material benefits? [0.03%]
家庭内部工作时间同步：共同努力还是各自受益？
Chris van Klaveren,Henriette Maassen van den Brink
Chris van Klaveren
If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in order to increase the amount of joint leisure. In order to control for differences in constraints and selection effects, th...
Income Attainment among Victims of Violence: Results From a Preliminary Study [0.03%]
暴力受害者收入达成情况的初步研究成果
M J J Kunst,S Bogaerts,T Wilthagen et al.
M J J Kunst et al.
Violent victimisation may have many short-term psychological and physical outcomes. Occasionally, the negative aftermath of violence persists over time or induces other and more far-reaching consequences. Income attainment after victimisati...