Subjective well-being among Russian students

Dynamique motivationnelle de l'epuisement et du bien-etre chez des enseignants africains.

“…Ils concernent, entre autres, un style de supervision autocratique et de gestion centralisée défavorables à la participation des employés ( Kiggundu, 1988;Blunt & Jones, 1992), la pénurie de ressources matérielles et humaines (Blunt, 1984;Okereki Ani, 1977), les faibles salaires et la réduction du pouvoir d'achat des travailleurs (Kiggundu, 1991;Lienert, 1998), le faible niveau de motivation (Abudu, 1986;Montgomery, 1986) ainsi que l'incidence élevée d'aliénation et de stress occupationnel (Blunt, 1982). Jusqu'à maintenant, les quelques données empiriques disponibles sur ce thème suggèrent que les Africains seraient généralement moins satisfaits de leur travail (Yoder & Eby, 1990;Cooper et Arbose, 1984) et de leur vie en général (voir Balatsky et Diener, 1993;Veenhoven, 1996) Okebukola & Jegede (1989).…”

Surveying transitional experience and subjective well-being: Income, work, family

“…The income-happiness relationship is stronger for lowincome groups (e.g. Diener and Biswas-Diener, 2002;Dolan et al, 2008) while noneconomic factors come into the fore when income grows (Diener et al, 1993). Unsurprisingly, income-well-being correlations are rather small in their size in most of developed countries (e.g.…”

“…At the beginning of transformation they were lower that in Western countries (Smith (2003) for the Soviet Union) and then they decreased even more, and a proportion of people in the least happy categories soared (e.g. Balatsky and Diener (1993) for Russia; Spéder et al (2002); Blanchflower and Freeman (1997) for Hungary and Slovenia; Lelkes (2006a,b) for Hungary, Angelescu (2008) for Poland and so on). Nowadays, even if subjective well-being gap between transitional and non-transitional countries diminished, they seems to be still divided by "an iron curtain of unhappiness" (e.g.…”

The shifting basis of life satisfaction judgments across cultures: Emotions versus norms.

“…The response scale ranges from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree), yielding a possible total score range of from 5 to 35. The SWLS has adequate psychometric properties (see Pavot & Diener, 1993) and has demonstrated its validity among Korean (Suh, 1994), mainland Chinese (Shao, 1993), and Russian (Balatsky & Diener, 1993) samples. The median alpha coefficient of SWLS across the 40 nations was .81.…”