Happy Relationship Research Articles

Indoor second-hand smoking could mediate the associations of foods and adult happiness: Scottish Health Survey, 2012.

There has been literature on the relationship of food and happiness, but the role of second-hand smoking is less understood. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine if second-hand smoking might mediate the associations of food consumption and subjective happiness in a country-wide and population-based setting. Data was retrieved from the Scottish Health Survey, 2012. Information on demographics, frequency of consuming certain foods and subjective happiness was obtained by household interview. Chi-square test and survey-weighted logistic regression modelling were performed. Of the included Scottish adults aged 16-99 (n = 4815), 15.4 % (n = 677) reported that they were unhappy. It was observed that eating lots of potatoes, some meat, some oily fish and some pastries were inversely associated with unhappiness. People who consumed vegetables and fruits on the day before the health interview were also found to be less unhappy, compared to their counterparts. However, the protective effect from fruits disappeared after additionally adjusting for indoor second-hand smoking while the protective effects from other foods mentioned above have also been lessened. In addition, cumulatively people who consumed more "happy foods" (mentioned above) were more likely to report subjective happiness, compared to those who did not consume any of those. For future research, longitudinally monitoring on the associations among food, household environment and psychological well-being and both the short-term and long-term effects would be suggested. For policy implications, Removal of indoor second-hand smoking to retain the protective effects from happy foods on well-being should be encouraged.

Meditation and happiness: Mindfulness and self-compassion may mediate the meditation–happiness relationship

Mindfulness and self-compassion are emerging as crucial constructs in mental health research. Recent studies have shown that both mindfulness and self-compassion skills may play important roles in well-being and positive emotions associated with mindfulness training. Studies are needed to explain this relationship and to determine what facets may be correlating and mediating the meditation–happiness relationship. The aim of this study was to explore the meditation–happiness relationship and examine which mindfulness and self-compassion facets are better predictors of happiness. A total of 365 participants completed an assessment protocol composed of: the Five Facets of Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), the Self-Compassion Scale-short form (SCS-SF), and the Pemberton Happiness Index (PHI). Hierarchical regression analysis showed that two FFMQ facets (Observing and Awareness) and two SCS components (Self-kindness and Common humanity) were significant predictors of happiness. Mediation results revealed a significant total indirect effect of Observing, Awareness, Self-kindness and Common humanity in the meditation frequency–happiness relationship. Significant indirect effects were found for observing, self-kindness and common humanity. The results supported the model of mindfulness and self-compassion facets as partial mediators of the meditation–happiness relationship. Findings are in line with other studies and provide evidence about the influence of mindfulness and self-compassion on happiness.

Happy relationships between marine sponges and sediments – a review and some observations from Australia

Being sessile filter feeders, sponges may be disadvantaged by sediments in many ways, e.g. through clogging and burial. However, in order to correctly recognize negative effects of sediments in the field, natural relationships of sponge taxa adapted to a life with sediments need to be understood. The present publication reviews available literature and provides observations on natural and beneficial interactions of sponges with sediments, distinguishing several strategies: (1) Saving energy through sediment incorporation, reducing or replacing spicule production commonly occurs in keratose, verongimorph, tethyid and poecilosclerid sponges, which often received scientific names referring to sediments. (2) Forming sediment crusts externally or embedded in surface tissues reinforces outer layers, provides shade, and for external crusts camouflage and shelter from spongivory and desiccation. External crusts often occur in the tethyids and axinellids, while surface armour is most common in keratose sponges. (3) Anchoring in soft sediments provides a selective advantage for space colonization. This is mainly achieved in the hexactinellid, polymastiid and spirophorine sponges by using spicules (predominantly in deeper water), commonly in endopsammic sponges by rootlets, basal agglutination and basal incorporation of particles, and in various groups by attachment to buried materials (shallow water). (4) Living at least partially embedded in sediments (psammobiosis) appears to be best developed inOceanapiaspp. and bioeroding sponges, generates shelter from various external conditions and reduces the risk of spongivory. Typical morphological characters of sediment-adapted sponges are thus sediment skeletons and surface crusts (reinforcement), stalks and fistules (elevation above sediments), spicule tufts and root-systems (anchoring).

Curating in the Postdigital Age

Curating in the Postdigital Age

Happiness – a primer for theological engagement

This essay discerns themes in the interdisciplinary study of happiness. We distinguish between the concepts of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness, as well as the concepts of well-being and quality of life. We also discuss the role of some determinants of happiness (income, relationships, life phase, geography and religion). We conclude by suggesting points of contact (the flourishing agent, determinants of happiness, anamnesis and eschatology, and the quest for meaning) where theological engagement can significantly clarify and enrich the happiness discourse.

융복합 사회에서 간호학과 학생의 행복감, 행복감 증진활동 및 자기성찰의 관계

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship of happiness, happiness promoting activities and self-reflection. Need of happiness is as important as right of life and freedom in the convergence society and heating up according to appearance of positive psychology. Subjects were 366 nursing students. Data were collected Oct. 2-8(2014), and analyzed using t-test/ANOVA and correlation by SPSS. Self-reflection showed statistically significant differences according to grade, and experience of practice. Happiness and happiness promotion activities showed statistically significant difference according to economic state. Happiness promotion activities were positively correlated with self-reflection and happiness. The factors affecting happiness were happiness promotion, economic state, and self-reflection which accounted for 26.3%. Repeated research which include various variables of happiness and self-reflection is needed, and suggest qualitative research about happiness.

Editorial Comment

This brief case report1 is a memorial to the late Prof. Sergio Cosciani Cunico, a long-time Italian urologist. Born in Trieste in 1939, Prof. Cosciani Cunico studied medicine at Padova and was on the faculty at Brescia until his recent death in 2014. The case is that of a woman with classical bladder exstrophy, unclosed until she met with Prof. Cosciani Cunico when she was 20 years old. The case is of note for a number of reasons: (1) the unusual reconstruction of removing the bladder, mobilizing the ureters to the deep pelvis, and closing the abdominal and pelvic defects after creating ureteral stomas on the perineum; (2) the outcome nearly 40 years later of high-functioning upper tracts containing 2 good renal units; and (3) a psychosocially high-functioning woman in a happy marital relationship.

Tomorrow’s Another Day

Marriages are complex; relationships are fraught with risk. Couples interact with each other, most commonly on a daily basis across many years. All of these interactions may lead to disagreements and disturbance. Each person in a relationship has different beliefs, habits and interests built from different backgrounds; any of which can work to disrupt the relationship. Values and interests may change; someone new may become more attractive than the current mate; or serious disagreements may develop. Even under the best of circumstances, couples must be actively engaged in and committed to maintaining a happy relationship to sustain their marriage. So imagine the challenges for a couple when one is a religious young woman studying poetry and literature, and her partner an atheistic young man embarking on a career in theoretical physics. Further, the young man has just been diagnosed with motor-neuron disease (MND) with a prognosis of complete debilitation and early death. The Theory of Everything dramatizes this marriage, the real-life relationship of Jane (Felicity Jones) and Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne). Although the relationship does eventually “go wrong,” that is, end in divorce, their marriage was apparently successful for many years as Stephen famously outlives his disease. An overarching theme of the movie draws upon a metaphoric parallel between Stephen’s scientific work and his relationship with Jane; the movie is primarily a marriage drama and not one that emphasizes Stephen’s career. We, therefore, discuss their relationship, and draw upon Gottman’s model of romantic relationships called The Sound Relationship House (Gottman & Gottman, 2013) and Gottman and Levenson’s (2002) two-factor model predicting divorce.

Early Exposure to Dietary Sugar and Salt

Obesity, with its comorbidities such as cardiovascular heart disease (CVD), is one of the most common chronic diseases in childhood.1 It probably begins early in life, and as the prevalence continues to rise the diets of young children assume increasing significance. Cogswell et al2 provide useful information on the salt and sugar contents of commercial food products that can be used to improve the diets of young children. Taste preferences for sugar and salt are mostly innate. Sugar and salt contribute to the overall pleasure and enjoyment of food.3,4 Sweet taste receptors respond to all classes of sweet tastants including natural sugars, artificial sweeteners, d-amino acids, and intensely sweet proteins. Pleasure from sweet taste promotes adequate caloric intake for times when food is scarce. Salty taste supports the proper dietary electrolyte balance. This happy relationship becomes a problem when there is a surfeit of food. Competitive food markets take advantage … Address correspondence to Susan S. Baker, MD, PhD, Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Center, University at Buffalo, 219 Bryant St, Buffalo, NY 14222. E-mail: sbaker{at}upa.chob.edu

직장인들의 웰니스, 주관적 행복감 및 삶의 질에 관한 연구

본 연구는 직장인들의 신체적 웰니스, 인지적 웰니스 및 감정적 웰니스와 주관적 행복감 및 삶의 질과의 관련성에 관한 실증연구이다. 본 연구에서 제안된 모형은 국내 제조업, 사무직, 연구직 등에 종사하고 있는 직장인 535명을 대상으로 Smart PLS2.0을 이용하여 구조방정식 모형을 통해 분석하였다. 분석결과, 첫째, 신체적 웰니스, 인지적 웰니스, 감정적 웰니스는 주관적 행복감에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 주관적 행복감은 삶의 질에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 직장인들을 대상으로 웰니스, 주관적 행복감 및 삶의 질을 연구하였다는 측면에서 직장인들의 웰니스 적 삶을 향상시킬 수 있는 기초자료가 될 것으로 보인다. This study aims to investigate the relationship of physical wellness, intellectual wellness, emotional wellness, subjective happiness and quality of life of employees. The proposed model analyzed 535 employees using Smart Partial Least Square (PLS) 2.0. The results of the experiment are as follows: First, physical, intellectual, and emotional wellness positively influenced subjective happiness. Second, subjective happiness positively influence life satisfaction. The results show improve the lives of the employee's quality of life and wellness, happiness. We study life quality, wellness, and happiness on subjective aspects in the workers. Therefore, analyzed result can be a basic research for the lives of the employees' quality.

Subjective Happiness as Mediator between Personal Growth Initiative and Life Satisfaction in Adolescents

Purpose: This study was carried out to assess the mediating role of subjective happiness in relationship between personal growth initiative and life satisfaction. The relationship between personal growth initiative, subjective happiness and life satisfaction was also explored. Basic procedure: The study involved 200 adolescent students from Jammu and Rajauri (India). Pearson’s correlation, regression analysis and Sobel test were used for statistical analysis. Main findings: Results revealed positive relationship between all the three variables in study. Partial mediation role of subjective happiness was confirmed in this study. Principle conclusions: The findings of study reveal that efforts made to seek change develop feelings of happiness which in turn is responsible for life satisfaction. The results obtained emphasize on developing certain interventions to enhance subjective happiness in adolescent students for greater satisfaction in life. Findings of the study might be particularly useful for education system.

Farmers' perceived risks of climate change and influencing factors: a study in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

Many countries are confronting climate change that threatens agricultural production and farmers' lives. Farmers' perceived risks of climate change and factors influencing those perceived risks are critical to their adaptive behavior and well-planned adaptation strategies. However, there is limited understanding of these issues. In this paper, we attempt to quantitatively measure farmers' perceived risks of climate change and explore the influences of risk experience, information, belief in climate change, and trust in public adaptation to those perceived risks. Data are from structured interviews with 598 farmers in the Mekong Delta. The study shows that perceived risks to production, physical health, and income dimensions receive greater priority while farmers pay less attention to risks to happiness and social relationships. Experiences of the events that can be attributed to climate change increase farmers' perceived risks. Information variables can increase or decrease perceived risks, depending on the sources of information. Farmers who believe that climate change is actually happening and influencing their family's lives, perceive higher risks in most dimensions. Farmers who think that climate change is not their concern but the government's, perceive lower risks to physical health, finance, and production. As to trust in public adaptation, farmers who believe that public adaptive measures are well co-ordinated, perceive lower risks to production and psychology. Interestingly, those who believe that the disaster warning system is working well, perceive higher risks to finance, production, and social relationships. Further attention is suggested for the quality, timing, and channels of information about climate change and adaptation.

What determines happiness? Income or attitude: Evidence from the U.S. longitudinal data.

Using the data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a longitudinal data set from the United States, this study demonstrates that the covariates of happiness differ to some extent between matured adults and young-adults and that the relationship of personal happiness with positive attitude is stronger than that with any other covariate of happiness known in the literature including income. These results remain robust to changes in estimation techniques in response to varying assumptions on the attitude variable. Assuming endogeneity of the attitude variable, the study estimates happiness and positive attitude equations simultaneously by a two-stage procedure and obtains interesting new results. These results indicate that positive attitude is not only a covariate of happiness, but also a determinant of happiness, especially in the sample of matured adults. To increase the personal happiness therefore the study recommends policies designed to help individuals not only increase their incomes, but also improve their attitudes.

Why Feasibility Matters More to Gift Receivers than to Givers: A Construal-Level Approach to Gift Giving

This article looks at the trade-offs that gift givers and gift receivers make between desirability and feasibility using construal level theory as a framework. Focusing on the asymmetric distance from a gift that exists within giver-receiver dyads, the authors propose that, unlike receivers, givers construe gifts abstractly and therefore weight desirability attributes more than feasibility attributes. Support for this proposition emerges in studies examining giver and receiver mind-sets, as well as giver and receiver evaluations of gifts. Furthermore, givers do not choose gifts that maximize receiver happiness or other relationship goals even though givers believe they are doing so. Finally, the authors demonstrate that while givers are sensitive to their distance from the receiver, receivers are not sensitive to this distance.

Couple-based interventions for psychopathology: a renewed direction for the field.

This article provides a rationale and empirical support for providing couple-based interventions when one partner in a relationship is experiencing individual psychopathology. Several investigations indicate that relationship distress and psychopathology are associated and reciprocally influence each other, such that the existence of relationship distress predicts the development of subsequent psychopathology and vice versa. Furthermore, findings indicate that for several disorders, individual psychotherapy is less effective if the client is in a distressed relationship. Finally, even within happy relationships, partners often inadvertently behave in ways that maintain or exacerbate symptoms for the other individual. Thus, within both satisfied and distressed relationships, including the partner in a couple-based intervention provides an opportunity to use the partner and the relationship as a resource rather than a stressor for an individual experiencing some form of psychological distress. The authors propose that a promising approach to including the partner in treatment involves (a) integrating intervention principles from empirically supported interventions for individual therapy for specific disorders with (b) knowledge of how to employ relationships to promote individual and dyadic change. Based on this logic, the article includes several examples to demonstrate how couple-based interventions can be focused on a specific type of psychopathology, including encouraging empirical findings for these interventions. The article concludes with recommendations for how clinicians and researchers can adapt their knowledge of couple therapy to assist couples in which one partner is experiencing notable psychological distress or diagnosable psychopathology.

Determinants of Sexual Activity in Four Birth Cohorts of Swedish 70-year-olds Examined 1971–2001

Knowledge about determinants of sexual activity in older adults in the general population is limited. Human senescence has been delayed by a decade, and people are reaching old age in better health. The aim of this study was to investigate determinants of sexual activity in four birth cohorts of non-demented 70-year-olds examined in 1971-1977 and 1992-2001. The main outcome measure was sexual activity (defined as intercourse) during the past year. The study is based on cross-sectional data from four population samples of 70-year-olds from Gothenburg, Sweden (N = 1,407) systematically sampled from the Swedish population register. In the time periods 1971-1972 and 2000-2001, sexual activity among men increased from 47% to 66%, and in women from 12% to 34%. Sexual activity was related to positive attitude toward sexuality, sexual debut before age 20, having a very happy relationship, having a physically and mentally healthy partner, self-reported good global health, interviewer-rated good mental health, being married/cohabiting, satisfaction with sleep, and drinking alcohol more than three times a week. Having an older partner, diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, higher physical health-sum score, and depression were related to less sexual activity. Interaction effects for birth cohort, with stronger positive associations in 1971-1972, were found for positive attitude toward sexuality, strong desire at age 20-30, premarital sexuality, having a younger partner, self-reported good global health, interviewer-rated good global mental health, overweight, and satisfaction with sleep. Having an older partner and depression showed stronger negative associations in the 1970s. Physical health-sum score showed a stronger negative association in 1992-2001. We found that determinants of sexual activity in older people are numerous and varied, and change over time. It is thus important that health professionals and others take a holistic approach when dealing with sexual problems in older adults. Sexual aging should be part of health care and medical education. Clinicians should be trained to ask older patients about sexual concerns.

O relacjach humanistyki i zarządzania: mezalians to czy szczęśliwy związek?

O relacjach humanistyki i zarządzania: mezalians to czy szczęśliwy związek?

Fears of happiness and compassion in relationship with depression, alexithymia, and attachment security in a depressed sample

In a non-clinical population, fears of compassion and fear of happiness have both been found to be highly correlated with alexithymia and depression. This study sought to explore these processes and their links with adult attachment and social safeness and pleasure in a depressed group. A total of 52 participants suffering from moderate to severe depression completed measures of fears of happiness, compassion from others and for self, in addition to measures of alexithymia, attachment, social safeness, and depression, anxiety, and stress. Fears of compassion and happiness were highly correlated with alexithymia, adult attachment, and depression, anxiety, and stress. Fear of happiness was found to be the best predictor of depression, anxiety, and stress, whereas fear of compassion from others was the best predictor of adult attachment. A path analysis showed that fears of positive emotion fully mediate the link between alexithymia and depression. This clinical sample had higher mean scores in fears of positive emotions, alexithymia, and depression, anxiety, and stress than a previously studied student sample. This study adds to the evidence that fears of positive emotions are important features of mental health difficulties. Unaddressed, these fears can block positive emotions and may lead to emotional avoidance of positive affect thus contributing as blocks to successful therapy. Therapies for depression may therefore profitably assess and desensitize the fear of positive emotions.

Comparison of Relative and Non-Relative Adoptive Parent Health Status

Across the United States, kinship parents, extended family members and close friends, render care to the 2.7 million children who have been removed from their birth parents' care. However, differences between relative and non-relative parents reported health statuses have not been explored. The National Survey of Adoptive Parents data were used to investigate the health status of relative (n = 469) and non-relative (n = 1,599) adoptive parents. Perceived happiness in the parent-child relationship and the parents' ability to cope appear to affect parental health status. Only non-related mothers of children younger than 6 years reported better emotional health than those mothers who were related to their children. With this exception, and despite caring for children who have a greater likelihood of abuse, neglect, and exposure to drugs and alcohol prior to birth, the reported health statuses of relative parents did not differ from non-relative parents.

The Relationship between Intrinsic Motivation and Happiness with Academic Achievement in High School Students

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship of internal motivation and happiness with academic achievement among high school students. Using cluster random sampling 341 student were selected .Then internal motivation and happiness questionnaires administrated. To measure the academic achievement, their academic grade average was used. Collected data analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient, stepwise regression analyses and Z test. The results showed that there is positive and significant relationship between internal motivation and academic achievement (P<./.1). There is positive and significant relationship between happiness and academic achievement (P<./.1).The relationship of internal motivation and academic achievement as well as happiness and academic achievement among male and female students is no different. The results of regression analysis showed that only internal motivation is able to predict academic achievement.