International Journal of Wellbeing最新文献

Beyond a single story: The heterogeneity of human flourishing in 22 countries 超越单一故事:22个国家人类繁荣的异质性

International Journal of Wellbeing Pub Date : 2023-10-31 DOI: 10.5502/ijw.v13i4.3555

Brendan Case, Victor Counted, Jim Ritchie-Dunham, Richard Cowden, Christina Gibson, Hayami Koga, Tim Lomas, Noah Padgett

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A provisional global comparison framework: One hundred psychologically salient ways of conceptualizing and evaluating the world 一个临时的全球比较框架:100种概念化和评估世界的心理显著方式

International Journal of Wellbeing Pub Date : 2023-10-31 DOI: 10.5502/ijw.v13i4.3421

Tim Lomas

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The brief thriving scale: Assessing the ability to learn, grow, and find benefits in stressful events 简短的成长量表:评估在压力事件中学习、成长和发现好处的能力

International Journal of Wellbeing Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.5502/ijw.v13i3.2801

Bruce Smith, Kelly Albonico, Naila deCruz-Dixon, Alvin Phan, Anne Guzman, Kaitlyn Schodt

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Is the warm glow actually warm? An experimental investigation into the nature and determinants of warm glow feelings 暖光真的是暖的吗?对暖光感觉的性质和决定因素的实验研究

International Journal of Wellbeing Pub Date : 2023-09-30 DOI: 10.5502/ijw.v13i3.2565

Robin Bianchi, Florian Cova, Emma Tieffenbach

{"title":"Is the warm glow actually warm? An experimental investigation into the nature and determinants of warm glow feelings","authors":"Robin Bianchi, Florian Cova, Emma Tieffenbach","doi":"10.5502/ijw.v13i3.2565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v13i3.2565","url":null,"abstract":"Giving money to others feels good. In the past years, this claim has received strong empirical support from psychology and neuroscience. It is now standard to use the label ‘warm glow feelings’ to refer to the pleasure people take from giving, and many explanations of apparently altruistic behavior appeal to these internal rewards. But what exactly are warm glow feelings? Why do people experience them? In order to further our understanding of the phenomenon, we ran two studies: a recall task in which participants were asked to remember a donation they made, and a donation task in which participants were given the opportunity to make a donation before reporting their affective states. In both studies, correlational and experimental evidence converge towards the conclusion that, if the nature of the warm glow is straightforward, its source is multifaceted. Regarding the nature of ‘warm glow’, the pleasure people took in giving was mainly predicted by one particular positive emotion (‘joyful feelings’) and was indeed described by participants as a ‘warm’ sensation. Regarding the underlying psychological mechanisms, ‘warm glow’ feelings were elicited both by positive appraisals regarding the donor’s moral character and positive appraisals regarding the actual impact of the donor’s donation on the welfare of others. We discuss the implications of these findings for the role of positive emotions in explaining why people give.","PeriodicalId":36390,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Wellbeing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136345073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Initial findings of a longitudinal study of wellbeing and mental health among graduate students around the world: The intra-individual impact of a pandemic 一项关于世界各地研究生幸福感和心理健康的纵向研究的初步发现:大流行对个体的影响

International Journal of Wellbeing Pub Date : 2023-09-30 DOI: 10.5502/ijw.v13i3.2775

Basil Cahusac de Caux, Ivanna Shubina

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Supplementary materials for:Is the warm glow actually warm? An experimental investigation into the nature and determinants of warm glow feelings 补充材料:暖光真的是暖的吗?对暖光感觉的性质和决定因素的实验研究

International Journal of Wellbeing Pub Date : 2023-09-30 DOI: 10.5502/ijw.v13i3.2565s

Robin Bianchi, Florian Cova, Emma Tieffenbach

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Brief computerised self-help interventions, the “Miracle Question,” and the moderating effects of openness-to-experience 简短的计算机自助干预，“奇迹问题”，以及开放体验的调节作用

International Journal of Wellbeing Pub Date : 2023-09-30 DOI: 10.5502/ijw.v13i3.2799

Adam Abdulla

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Promotion of well-being in work and interpersonal relationships: A scoping review of goals and meaning interventions 促进工作和人际关系中的幸福:目标和意义干预的范围审查

International Journal of Wellbeing Pub Date : 2023-09-30 DOI: 10.5502/ijw.v13i3.2941

Christelle Liversage, Marié P. Wissing, Lusilda Schutte

{"title":"Promotion of well-being in work and interpersonal relationships: A scoping review of goals and meaning interventions","authors":"Christelle Liversage, Marié P. Wissing, Lusilda Schutte","doi":"10.5502/ijw.v13i3.2941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v13i3.2941","url":null,"abstract":"With the demanding pace and challenges of the world today, there is an amplified need to identify ways of attaining well-being in the context of the workplace and relational domains of life. As work and interpersonal relationships are key domains of life where people set goals and find meaning in their search for well-being, interventions towards the promotion of well-being in these domains have become a strategic and critical priority to meet the demands of an everchanging world. Interventions to enhance well-being through goals and /or meaning in various domains of life are dispersed across disciplines, highlighting the need for a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art to advance its progress. This study aimed to explore through a scoping review existing literature on interventions to enhance goals and meaning to promote well-being in the life domains of work and interpersonal relationships. Using specific search terms in each of these domains, a literature search of scientific articles was conducted via various search platforms and databases. Thirty-eight articles were identified, scrutinized, and with the aid of clearly defined inclusion and exclusion criteria a final number of 27 articles extracted. No interventions were found on the concordance of goals and meaning in either of the two domains. Goals and meaning interventions, in both domains, used diverse strategies, leading to various hedonic and eudaimonic outcomes. Findings per study are described in terms of target groups, intervention strategies and outcomes. Through the indication of a major gap in research regarding interventions aiming at the alignment or harmonisation of goals and what is meaningful to people, this study points to further possibilities for research on the development and evaluation of interventions that aim to enhance the alignment of goals and meaning in the work and especially the interpersonal relationships domains.","PeriodicalId":36390,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Wellbeing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136345072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Supplementary information for: Brief computerised self-help interventions, the “Miracle Question,” and the moderating effects of openness-to-experience 补充信息:简短的计算机自助干预，“奇迹问题”，以及开放体验的调节作用

International Journal of Wellbeing Pub Date : 2023-09-30 DOI: 10.5502/ijw.v13i3.2799s

Adam Abdulla

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Supplementary information for: Well-being and ill-being on campus 补充信息:校园的健康和不健康

International Journal of Wellbeing Pub Date : 2023-09-30 DOI: 10.5502/ijw.v13i3.2785s

Philip S. Morrison, Ivy Liu, Dylon Zeng

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