Happiness and sense of community belonging in the world value survey

Cramer, Kenneth M.; Pawsey, Hailey

doi:10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100101

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“…Responses were given to the item on a 4-point Likert scale, ranging from 1, Very Unhappy, to 4, Very Happy. This item has been commonly employed in numerous happiness studies [ 41 ] and exhibited high concurrent validity [ 42 ] as well as predictive validity [ 43 , 44 ].…”

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Social connectedness and mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a community sample in Korea

Lee,

Moon,

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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This study compared social connectedness patterns and examined the relationships between objective or subjective social connectedness and mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among community dwelling adults in South Korea. An identical online survey was administered at two time points, in 2019 prior to the onset and again in 2021. Objective (network diversity and network size) and subjective (thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness) social connectedness were measured along with positive and negative indices of mental health (depression, suicidal behavior, happiness, and life satisfaction). The results indicated that among social connectedness indices perceived burdensomeness were significantly higher during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the prior period, while network size was smaller. Subjective social connectedness was associated with all aspects of mental health consequences, either positive or negative. Among objective social connectedness, only network diversity was significantly associated with increased happiness and life satisfaction, and objective social connectedness was not associated with depression and suicidal behavior. These associations did not differ across the two time periods. The findings, both before and during the pandemic, indicated that network diversity is an important factor for positive indices of mental health and that efforts to increase subjective social connectedness are needed to decrease the risk of depression and suicidal behavior.

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Social connectedness and mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a community sample in Korea

Lee,

Moon,

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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“…Land 2024, 13 The status of the "double front-line" makes communities, as "micro-cells" of urban residents' living communities and "micro-units" of social networks, a key field for preventing and resolving significant risks [6]. Urban communities' resilience level has become vital to grassroots stability and residents' sense of gain, happiness, and security and is a practical issue that urban governance must face head on [7].…”

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“…However, with the advance of practice, problems in digital community construction have become increasingly apparent, and "information islands", "data barriers", "efficiency paradox", and "digital ethics" have gradually attracted attention [12]. The blind pursuit of the digitalization of urban communities has begun to be questioned and calls for a return to the essence of value continue to rise [13]. This is because cities use industrialization as their development logic, which is inconsistent with the cultural development logic of rural areas, and "strangers" have become a prominent feature of urban communities.…”

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Digital and Culture: Towards More Resilient Urban Community Governance

Xiang,

Heng,

Zhai

et al. 2024

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Urban communities are characterized by significant population size, high density, and strong mobility. While we might enjoy the dividends of rapid modernization, there are nonetheless variable and frequent public crises that occur. Modernization’s problems are gradually emerging, and the traditional risk prevention logic that relies on administrative “rigidity” has begun to be widely challenged. Traditional urban communities depend on institutional, structural, and spatial aspects to improve community resilience. Because big data has become popular, attention has begun to be paid to digital empowerment and community resilience. However, the emergence of problems such as “digital paradox” and “digital ethics” in the digital realm itself has prompted calls for cultural resilience to continue to rise. Therefore, urgently needed resolutions are required to questions regarding the resilience of traditional communities, the construction of digital and cultural resilience, the relationship between digital and cultural resilience, and the manner in which cultural resilience is coordinated to solve the problem of digital resilience. A quantitative analysis of 350 questionnaires from five urban communities found that these communities’ institutional, spatial, and structural dimensions are the driving factors for improving resilience. In contrast, the cultural and digital dimensions are constraints. Therefore, the question of how to coordinate the cultural and digital factors represented by traditional and modern societies in order to compensate for the shortcomings in resilience construction is that which future urban communities must consider. The authors of this study believe that digital empowerment is needed to open up the “first mile” of resilient communities, that cultural empowerment is required to break down the “blocks in the middle” of resilient communities, and that digital and cultural coupling is needed to link the “last mile” of resilient communities. One must use culture to compensate for the shortcomings of digital resilience and digital to pay for the failures of cultural resilience before one can move towards more resilient urban community governance.

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The Quality of Society and Happiness: Fairness, Trust, and Community in China

Knight,

Gunatilaka

2024

J Happiness Stud

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Adam Smith argued that ‘moral sentiments’ – the norms, customs and conventions of society - provide a benefit, improving both economic efficiency and well-being. Three important moral sentiments are a perception of fairness, a willingness to trust people, and a sense of community. We analyse representative national socioeconomic surveys of the China Household Income Project (CHIP), containing information that is used to create scores of happiness, fairness, trust, and community for each respondent. Three main hypotheses are tested: that higher reported fairness, higher reported trust, and greater sense of community each raises happiness. Evidence is found for each hypothesis, as well as for related questions, Attempts are made to ascertain whether the associations are causal; some support is found. The evidence is generally consistent with the broader argument that an informal social contract constrains antisocial behaviour and improves wellbeing in ways little studied by economists.

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Happiness and sense of community belonging in the world value survey

Cited by 4 publications

References 30 publications

Social connectedness and mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a community sample in Korea

Social connectedness and mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a community sample in Korea

Digital and Culture: Towards More Resilient Urban Community Governance

The Quality of Society and Happiness: Fairness, Trust, and Community in China

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