I Matter to My Friend, Therefore I am Happy: Friendship, Mattering, and Happiness

Demır, Melıkşah; Özen, Ayça; Doğan, Aysun; Bilyk, Nicholas; Tyrell, Fanita A.

doi:10.1007/s10902-010-9240-8

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“…Based on the literature review (e.g. Angner et al, 2011;Demir, Özen, Doğan, Bilyk, & Tyrell, 2011;Mohanty, 2009;Tadić, Bakker, & Oerlemans, 2013), happiness constructs at the workplace were identified. The interrelations between construct categories (such as employment status, income, friendship, and work activities) and happiness were supported by the previous studies (see Table 1).…”

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A Conceptual Framework of Happiness at the Workplace

Wesarat¹,

Sharif²,

Majid³

2014

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Happiness at the workplace refers to how satisfied people are with their work and lives. The idea of happiness is related to individual's subjective well-being. Happiness at the workplace is crucial for improving productivity in any organization. Happy people are productive people while those people who are unhappy may not pay full attention to any task. Some scholars believe that organizations which are able to maintain long-term happiness at the workplace could probably increase and sustain productivity. Therefore, they should know what factors could affect employee happiness in order to effectively enhance happiness at the workplace. But research on employee happiness was rarely seen in the past. The issue of happiness at the workplace needs to be properly conceptualized so that useful research on it could be conducted. This paper presents a potential conceptual framework of happiness at the workplace that could give valuable contribution to future research in this area.

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A Conceptual Framework of Happiness at the Workplace

Wesarat¹,

Sharif²,

Majid³

2014

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“…Asher ve Parker'e (1988) göre arkadaşlık, evlilik ve romantik ilişkilerden önce gelen ve egoyu destekleyerek önemli gelişimsel ve sosyal fonksiyonlara hizmet etmektedir. 10 yılı aşkın bir süredir yapılan deneysel çalışmalar yakın arkadaşlık yaşantıları ile bireylerin mutlulukları arasında güçlü bir ilişki olduğunu ve yakın arkadaşlık ilişkilerinin bireyin mutlu olmasını yordayabileceğini ortaya koymuştur (Demir, Özen, Doğan, Bilyk ve Tyrell, 2011). Bu araştırma bulgusunu destekleyen bir başka çalışmada yine Froding ve Peterson (2012) arkadaşlık ile mutluluk arasında bir ilişki olduğunu ifade etmektedirler.…”

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The Impact of Friendship Skills Psycho-education on the Friendship Quality of 9-12 Year-Old Students

Öztürk¹,

Kutlu

2017

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“…Perhaps the strong effect of friendships on life satisfaction is too obvious to explain; to our knowledge, only one scholar has offered a systematic explanation for why friendships increase happiness. Melikşah Demir and colleagues (Demir, ; Demir & Davidson, ; Demir & Özdemir, ; Demir, Özen, & Doğan, ; Demir, Özen, Doğan, Bilyk, & Tyrell, ) argue that friendships increase happiness because they satisfy some basic psychological needs, such as relatedness, the knowledge that one matters to others, and the desire to share and amplify good news and events (captured in the Swedish proverb ‘Shared joy is a double joy, shared sorrow is half a sorrow’). Demir's explanation, however, raises even more fundamental questions.…”

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Country roads, take me home… to my friends: How intelligence, population density, and friendship affect modern happiness

Kanazawa

2016

British J of Psychology

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We propose the savanna theory of happiness, which suggests that it is not only the current consequences of a given situation but also its ancestral consequences that affect individuals' life satisfaction and explains why such influences of ancestral consequences might interact with intelligence. We choose two varied factors that characterize basic differences between ancestral and modern life - population density and frequency of socialization with friends - as empirical test cases. As predicted by the theory, population density is negatively, and frequency of socialization with friends is positively, associated with life satisfaction. More importantly, the main associations of life satisfaction with population density and socialization with friends significantly interact with intelligence, and, in the latter case, the main association is reversed among the extremely intelligent. More intelligent individuals experience lower life satisfaction with more frequent socialization with friends. This study highlights the utility of incorporating evolutionary perspectives in the study of subjective well-being.

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I Matter to My Friend, Therefore I am Happy: Friendship, Mattering, and Happiness

Abstract: Best friendship, Close friendships, Friendship quality, Happiness, Perceived mattering, Structural equation modeling,

Cited by 67 publications

References 67 publications

A Conceptual Framework of Happiness at the Workplace

A Conceptual Framework of Happiness at the Workplace

The Impact of Friendship Skills Psycho-education on the Friendship Quality of 9-12 Year-Old Students

Country roads, take me home… to my friends: How intelligence, population density, and friendship affect modern happiness

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