Will Happiness-Trainings Make Us Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings-Archive

Bergsma, Ad; Buijt, Ivonne; Veenhoven, Ruut

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01953

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“…Subjective wellbeing is traditionally defined as a subjective evaluation of our own life, an hedonic balance of feelings, emotions, and appraisals that can be adequately assessed by self-reported questionnaires ( Diener et al, 2018 ; Das et al, 2020 ; Karunamuni et al, 2020 ). This concept of individual subjective wellbeing is often equated to happiness and life satisfaction ( Veenhoven, 2018 ; Bergsma et al, 2020 ).…”

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Social and Individual Subjective Wellbeing and Capabilities in Chile

González

Dussaillant²,

Calvo

2021

Front. Psychol.

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The notion of social belongingness has been applied to different scales, from individual to social processes, and from subjective to objective dimensions. This article seeks to contribute to this multidimensional perspective on belongingness by drawing from the capabilities and subjective wellbeing perspectives. The specific aim is to analyze the relationships between capabilities—including those related to social belongingness—and individual and social subjective wellbeing. The hypotheses are: (H1–H2) There is a relationship between capabilities (measured as evaluation and functioning) and (H1) individual and (H2) social subjective wellbeing; (H3) The set of capabilities associated to individual subjective wellbeing differs from the set correlated to social subjective wellbeing; (H4) The intensity and significance of the correlation between subjective wellbeing and capabilities depends on whether the latter is measured as evaluation or functioning; and (H5) The relationships between capabilities and subjective wellbeing are complex and non-linear. Using a nationally representative survey in Chile, multiple linear (H1–H5) and dose response matching (H1–H5) regressions between capabilities and subjective wellbeing outcomes are estimated, confirming all hypotheses. Subjective evaluations and effective functionings of some capabilities (“basic needs,” “social ties,” “feeling recognized and respected;” “having and deploying a life project”) are consistently correlated with both subjective wellbeing outcomes. Others capabilities are correlated with both subjective wellbeing outcomes only when measured as functionings (contact with nature), do not display a systematic pattern of correlation (“health,” “pleasure,” “participation,” and “human security”) or are not associated with subjective wellbeing (“self-knowledge” and “understanding the world”). When observed, correlations are sizable, non-linear, and consistent across estimation methods. Moreover, capabilities related to social belongingness such as “social ties” and “feeling recognized and respected” are important by themselves but also are positively correlated to both social and individual subjective wellbeing. These findings underscore the need of a multidimensional perspective on the relationships between capabilities and subjective wellbeing, considering both subjective and objective, as well as individual and social aspects that are relevant to belongingness. These findings also have practical and policy implications, and may inform public deliberation processes and policy decisions to develop capabilities, promote subjective wellbeing, and ultimately promote positive belongingness.

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Social and Individual Subjective Wellbeing and Capabilities in Chile

González

Dussaillant²,

Calvo

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…It may be of interest to conduct future studies only with adolescents genuinely willing and motivated to participate in the intervention. Additionally, training in well‐being techniques is likely to be more effective among people in need of improvement (Bergsma et al, 2020). We did not initially screen adolescents' levels of well‐being, and, as a result, a percentage of adolescents allocated in the intervention group may have already been experiencing high levels of mental health (i.e.…”

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Changes in the network structure of mental health after a multicomponent positive psychology intervention in adolescents: A moderated network analysis

Tejada-Gallardo

Blasco‐Belled

Mora

2022

Applied Psych Health & Well

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The effectiveness of multicomponent positive psychology interventions (MPPIs) on adolescents' mental health has been studied with the use of standard procedures throughout the scientific literature. However, little is known about the potential mechanisms underlying the network structure of mental health following the dual‐factor model after an MPPI. We relied on network analysis to explore the reorganization of the connections between mental health indicators after a school‐based MPPI. Adolescents from two high schools in Spain were randomly allocated to the 6‐week intervention group (n = 85) or to the control group (n = 135). Network analysis showed that the relations between the two differentiated network dimensions of mental health (i.e. well‐being and psychological distress) changed after the intervention. Unlike control participants, emotional well‐being was negatively associated with depression and stress, while psychological well‐being was positively related to stress after the intervention. The present study supports the viability of the network approach in analyzing the connections between mental health indicators as defined by the dual‐factor model and the contribution of MPPIs to change the complex pattern of relations between the dimensions of well‐being and psychological distress.

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“…The most common ways of operationalising the construct of happiness mentioned in HPW's thesis have been: affections [5,25,28,29,36], well-being [20, 29,33,35,48,49], subjective or psychological well-being [4,20,22,30,35,37,48,49], happiness [16,37,45,50] and satisfaction, both with life and at a professional level [4,5,20,21,25,28,29,33,35,36,45,50,51]. However, there are also others such as motivations [50,52], organisational commitment [50], and engagement [36,50]. In this sense, Table 1 was prepared to list the main concepts behind the measurement of the concept of happiness, identifying the main scales for this purpose and listing some of the works that have used them.…”

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How to Measure the Happy-Productive Worker Thesis

Costa¹,

Oliveira²,

Ferreira³

2023

Business, Management and Economics

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Globalisation and intensifying competition force organisations to create distinctive competitive advantages, transforming classic management models and seeking effective responses to the mutability and dynamics of markets. People management plays a central role in achieving differentiating capacities, forcing more effective management of human resources. In an environment marked by high absenteeism and turnover, followed by the growing difficulty in retaining talent, organisations have been seeking to increase the satisfaction of internal customer needs (employees), working on issues such as well-being and happiness at work. The increasing concern with employee well-being and their association with job performance have been the basis for many research studies aimed at understanding the impact of the concept of happiness on employee behaviour and performance. This chapter seeks to summarise the main ways of operationalising the constructs inherent to the thesis of the happy-productive worker (happiness and performance). This chapter is structured as follows: introduction, exploration of the happy-productive worker thesis (concept and origin and main theoretical frameworks related to the idea), measuring the constructs (happiness and performance), and conclusion.

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Will Happiness-Trainings Make Us Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings-Archive

Cited by 22 publications

References 93 publications

Social and Individual Subjective Wellbeing and Capabilities in Chile

Social and Individual Subjective Wellbeing and Capabilities in Chile

Changes in the network structure of mental health after a multicomponent positive psychology intervention in adolescents: A moderated network analysis

How to Measure the Happy-Productive Worker Thesis

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