Faith or Social Foci? Happiness, Religion, and Social Networks in Sweden

Edling, Christofer; Rydgren, Jens; Bohman, Love

doi:10.1093/esr/jcu062

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“…Indeed, Cuñado and de Gracia (2012) detected a substantial association between happiness and these attributes in their empirical analysis using the ESS data. Furthermore, given that a number of studies have revealed trust and social connections operate as important predictors of happiness (e.g., Edling et al, 2014;Haller & Hadler, 2006;Helliwell et al, 2020;Lim & Putnam, 2010;Rodríguez-Pose & von Berlepsch, 2014), the current paper also uses questions about the frequency of volunteer activity and the extent to which respondents feel people can be trusted.…”

Section: Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Education Make People Happy? Spotlighting the Overlooked Societal Condition

Araki¹

2021

J Happiness Stud

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The association between education and subjective well-being has long been investigated by social scientists. However, prior studies have paid inadequate attention to the influence of societal-level educational expansion and skills diffusion. In this article, multilevel regression analyses, using internationally comparable data for over 48,000 individuals in 24 countries, detect the overall positive linkage between educational attainment and life satisfaction. Nevertheless, this relationship is undermined due to the larger degree of skills diffusion at the societal level, and no longer confirmed once labor market outcomes are accounted for. Meanwhile, the extent of skills diffusion per se is positively and substantially associated with people’s subjective well-being even after adjusting for key individual-level and country-level predictors, whereas other societal conditions including GDP, Gini coefficients, safety, civic engagement, and educational expansion do not indicate significant links with life satisfaction in the current analysis. Given that recent research suggests skills diffusion promotes the formation of meritocratic social systems, one may argue it is the process of fairer rewards allocation underpinned by skills diffusion, rather than the status quo of macroeconomy, economic inequality, social stability, and educational opportunities as such, that matters more to people’s subjective well-being.

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Section: Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Education Make People Happy? Spotlighting the Overlooked Societal Condition

Araki¹

2021

J Happiness Stud

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“…However, a recent study has shown that religion and happiness tend to be positively associated at the individual level in countries with high aggregate levels of religiosity and suggests that what influences happiness is not religiosity per se, but conformity to the standards of that particular country. The results reported in the study show that in a country with a low level of aggregate religiosity, such as Sweden, religion is not particularly important for happiness (Edling et al, 2014)…”

Section: Challenges For the Church Of Sweden As A Welfare Actormentioning

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‘This is what it is like to be church’: the Church of Sweden’s conditions for work with newly arrived refugees

Vikdahl

Gunnarsson

Larsson

2023

Int. Migration & Integration

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Many newly arrived refugees suffer from mental health problems due to trauma. Research has shown that social participation after migration, such as taking part in social activities, networks and community work, is important for mental health and well-being. In Sweden, many civil society organisations, such as the Church of Sweden, take great responsibility for the establishment and integration of new arrivals. At the same time, the role of civil society organisations in the welfare society is not obvious, and the place of religious communities is sometimes challenged. Due to today’s growing secular and globalised society, the role of the Church of Sweden has changed. Its power has decreased, and the indications are that this will continue. There are also circumstances that point to the church having to adapt to the norms of secular society to have an impact. As the Church of Sweden fulfils an important function as a provider of welfare services, not least in work with newly arrived refugees, this article studies how the employees of the Church of Sweden feel about their conditions for this work and what guides it. It is based on a qualitative study of 19 interviews with employees in 4 different parishes.

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“…The responses, though not unproblematic, are meaningful and reasonably comparable among various groups of individuals [1]. It should thus come as no surprise that answers vary across nations [42], and according to perceived institutional quality [49], individual freedom [50], socioeconomic status [42], economic freedom [51,52], social networks [53], housing conditions [54], equality [55], age [56,57], education [58,59], or health [60,61].…”

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confidence: 87%

Happiness, Value, and Organizational Toughness: Three Concepts in Search of a Theory

Sousa¹,

Carvalho²

2023

Happiness and Wellness - Biopsychosocial and Anthropological Perspectives

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Happiness—life satisfaction, subjective well-being, or welfare—is generally considered the ultimate goal of life. Research shows that happiness correlates positively with various resources, desirable characteristics, and favorable life circumstances. Happiness can influence productivity, emotions, health, self-esteem, social skills, creativity, hope, or integrity. As such, happiness seems to affect how individuals may go about their personal and professional lives. As complex social systems rely on competencies, attitudes, and behaviors to fulfill their goals, happiness affects organizations and vice versa in different ways. Resilience, flexibility, plasticity, and eventually organizational toughness can all be seen as emerging coping properties of complex adaptive systems needed to continue meeting their objectives, despite uncertainty and adversity in turbulent periods. These properties are valuable because they account for enhancing the viability and sustainability of individuals and organizations. However, the conceptual mechanisms through which happiness at work connects to value creation and organizational toughness are in short supply. In this chapter, we provide a conceptual model for addressing this complex relationship.

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Faith or Social Foci? Happiness, Religion, and Social Networks in Sweden

Cited by 8 publications

References 39 publications

Does Education Make People Happy? Spotlighting the Overlooked Societal Condition

Does Education Make People Happy? Spotlighting the Overlooked Societal Condition

‘This is what it is like to be church’: the Church of Sweden’s conditions for work with newly arrived refugees

Happiness, Value, and Organizational Toughness: Three Concepts in Search of a Theory

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