Make People Happy Research Articles

Having to ‘go beyond’: Staff perspectives on activity programs for older people living in nursing homes

Activity programs are run by many nursing homes (also known as residential aged care facilities or long-term care facilities) however little is known about how activities are chosen or how well they meet the needs of residents. The aim of this study was to learn more about activity programs currently offered to older people living in nursing homes in Victoria, Australia. Interviews were undertaken with 13 activities/lifestyle staff working across six nursing homes. Staff were asked about their role and training; how activities were chosen, run, and evaluated; and barriers to providing social participation opportunities for residents. Thematic analysis of interview transcripts revealed six main themes: the role of the activities staff is to make people happy and meet their needs; activities staff largely choose (group based) activities; evaluation of activity programs is mostly informal; activity programs are poorly resourced; staff are often required to ‘go beyond’; and catering to the unique needs of residents is challenging. Given the established importance of social interaction to physical and psychosocial health, it is essential that activity programs and staff are viewed as integral to resident wellbeing; that staff are trained and supported; and that programs are funded and resourced adequately to deliver programs that are person-centred and meet the needs and preferences of residents.

People in relationally mobile cultures report higher well-being.

In cultures with high relational mobility, relationships are free and flexible. People can make new friends easily, and they have the freedom to leave unsatisfying relationships. In cultures with low relational mobility, relationships are more fixed, and people have less freedom to leave relationships. We argue that people experience higher well-being if they have the freedom to exit toxic relationships and find new partners easily. In Study 1, we ran a controlled comparison by testing people all within the same nation. We measured well-being and relational mobility in a representative sample of 22,669 people across China. People reported greater well-being in relationally mobile prefectures. Study 2 found this same relationship across 74,657 people in 34 cultures. Study 3 used a cross-lagged design to give more insight into the direction of the relationship. The results showed that relational mobility predicted later subjective well-being, but not the opposite direction. Overall, these data suggest the cultural environments of relational mobility make people happy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

What matters more for happiness than income in China: Intentional activities, social attitudes, or social comparison?

AbstractThe article integrates interdisciplinary insights in an analytical framework and aims to examine what factors matter more for happiness than income in China from a sociological perspective. The study emphasizes the importance of social contexts and adopts a mixed‐methods approach. Quantitative analysis of the 2015 Chinese General Social Survey data shows that intentional activities, social attitudes, and social comparison are significantly associated with Chinese people's happiness after economic circumstances and sociodemographic characteristics have been taken into account as control variables. In addition, qualitative analysis of in‐depth interviews helps to contextualize the quantitative findings and to enrich the understanding of why these factors rather than income would play a more significant role in making people happy in China. This study demonstrates the value of investigating happiness across disciplinary boundaries and makes an empirical contribution to examining subjective well‐being in contemporary society.

Minat Pengunjung Di Pasar Tradisional Sukorejo Kec. Sukorejo Blitar

Traditional markets are places of interaction between sellers and buyers which are characterized by direct transactions and frequent bargaining processes. The existence of traditional markets makes people happy because traditional markets provide many basic daily needs and necessities and of course the prices are much cheaper than in supermarkets. Because of this, the development of traditional markets really needs to be improved, so that public interest increases, changes to traditional markets are needed. The development of traditional markets in Blitar can be seen, among other things, by physical renovations, activities to clean the environment around the market, arrangement of places and grouping of types of merchandise, orderly administration, order and security. Supporting factors include traditional market traders who always follow the advice and directions of market managers, the presence of cleaning staff, and good support from the Trade Department. However, there are also factors that hinder the development of traditional markets in increasing public interest, including: lack of public awareness about not throwing away rubbish, packaging of goods for sale that does not attract public interest, water drains that are often clogged with rubbish. The approach we take is a qualitative approach, such as going directly to traditional markets to see firsthand a clear picture and accurate facts.

Exploration of Factors Influencing Intention to Leave: Indonesian Professional Working in Qatar Case

This study explores job and life satisfaction factors influencing intention to leave, including life satisfaction as moderation role for Indonesian professionals working and living in Qatar. The quantitative job and life satisfaction questionnaire was used to test research hypotheses using Structural Equation Mode. Herzberg's Two-Factor for job satisfaction and Clayton Alderfer's ERG Theory for life satisfaction contain 26 factors with seven Likert scale. Motivators include reward, promotion, work nature, and personal growth, while hygiene factors include pay, working conditions, supervisors, coworkers, workloads, operating conditions, and job security. Existence shows health, environment, housing, and finances. Friends, family, community, leisure, and social status reflect relatedness. Spirituality, culture, and family education indicate growth. 292 participants, with 92.1% above 40 years old and having lived in Qatar for more than 10 years (77.5%) at the same job position (43.8%), participated in the study. The model shows that hygiene factors moderately negatively correlate with job satisfaction, while motivators strongly positively correlate. Selected factors addressed most factors of job satisfaction, excluding operating conditions and job security. Existence needs strongly positively correlate with life satisfaction, while growth needs are not significantly correlated. An unexpected negative correlation exists between relatedness and life satisfaction. Selected factors under existence, relatedness, and growth only explain 1.5% of life satisfaction variation, indicating that other factors are also important but are not taken into account. Job and life satisfaction negatively correlate with intention to leave, while life satisfaction significantly adversely moderates the relationship between both of them, suggesting that attempting to make people happy may help them stay at their jobs when they're unhappy. Other findings show that people are highly satisfied with current pay and financial stability but moderately satisfied with promotion, reward, and future pay increases and financial security. Therefore, improving future finances can make people happier and keep them from quitting their jobs.

The Impact of Social-engagement, Social-support and Self-esteem on Life Satisfaction in UK Youth: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed Methods Study

Significant changes in adolescent physiology and psychology have been linked to a decline in adolescents sense of well-being. Thats why its so important to study what makes people happy in order to help teenagers flourish. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the value of a correlational design and thematic analysis in revealing the underlying mechanisms at play in teenage social connection, self-esteem, and life satisfaction through the use of a mixed-methods sequential explanatory display. Our predictions that self-esteem (26%), social-support (1%) and social-engagement (1%) each accounted for a significant portion of the unique variance on the Satisfaction with Life Scale are supported by data from the Seventh-Sweep Study-Wave 7 Dataset (N=759). The quantitative results are corroborated by a thematic analysis of social-media and newspaper comments (N=126), which reveals that young people with high self-esteem are more likely to have positive school and social connections, use coping techniques, and express their true selves. Low self-esteem, on the other hand, may have detrimental effects on happiness, such as the promotion of psychological disorder and risky behaviours as well as underpinning academic and social isolation. Therefore, it may be beneficial for adolescents well-being to place an emphasis on school connectedness, social support, and positive self-perception.

Snow and ice culture sports tourism development on patients with post-traumatic stress disorder in Jilin Province from the perspective of healthy China

BackgroundPsychological changes caused by traumatic stress, if left untreated for a long time, may become chronic symptoms lasting throughout the second half of life. Sports can make people happy, and can stimulate people’s inner potential. With the development of ice and snow culture and sports tourism in Jilin Province as the background, this study analyzed the influence of ice and snow sports on patients with stress psychological disorders.Subjects and MethodsA total of 300 patients with PTSD were selected as experimental subjects in various hospitals in Jilin Province, and an equal number of experimental and control groups were set up. SCL-90 self-test scale was used in both the experimental group and the control group for the questionnaire survey before and after the experiment. During the 3-month experiment, the control group received conventional treatment, while the experimental group received ice and snow sports extension training in addition to conventional treatment.ResultsThe scores of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), depression, anxiety, hostility and terror disorder were significantly different before and after the experiment (P<0.01). The two factors of interpersonal relationship and paranoia were significantly different before and after the experiment (P<0.05). It was worth noting that there was no significant difference between somatization symptoms and psychiatric symptoms (P>0.05).ConclusionsIce and snow sports intervention can release the tense emotions of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, so as to restore the psychological balance.

Healthy ageing in the global pandemic

COVID-19 has altered our experiences over the last few years; it has put our lives and daily choices in a new light. This paper reflects on these challenges regarding healthy ageing and what we can do to contribute to our ageing process as well as the health of the planet. Physical activity and exercise have been proven to make people happy and healthy. Those same things also make the planet healthy. The basic assumption of this presentation is that the well-being of the individual and that of the earth can be improved through a sustainable, active lifestyle. While social science and medical research have addressed the importance of human movement in recent years, the social and environmental factors that help promote physical activity and healthy ageing remain insufficiently addressed. Some factors that lead to engaging in physical activity and sustainably continuing will be addressed. Finally, the interaction of some of the influences of personal circumstances and community, as well as the impacts of environmental support and constraints, will be highlighted, - especially as they relate to the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic.

Maulid Diba’ sebagai Peningkat Religiusitas Mahasantri Komplek H Pondok Pesantren Krapyak Yayasan Ali Maksum Yogyakarta

Salawat Maulid Diba' is very popular among the community and Islamic boarding schools of the Nahdlatul Ulama family. The culture of reciting the Maulid Diba salawat has been passed down from generation to generation. Mawlid Diba's routine readings are able to influence the body and soul of the readers, including material and immaterial. This paper discusses Mawlid Diba' as an increase in the religiosity of Mahasantri Complex H Krapyak Ali Maksum Islamic Boarding School. Research Using a qualitative approach. The method used is phenomenology. This type of research is field research. The results of the study show that reading Mawlid Diba' activities can increase the religiosity of Mahasantri Complex H. In general, it can get used to positive activities, improve discipline, especially in managing time. Religiously, it can increase faith in Allah and the Messenger, increase love for Allah and the Messenger, emulate the example of the Apostle, strengthen friendship, make people happy, the mind is calm, and the heart is comfortable.

The Influence of Social and Demographic Characteristics on Modern Students’ Self-confidence and Assertiveness

The aim of this article is to study, using various methods, the influence of gender, level of economic well-being, university status, origin and year of study on the self-confidence and assertiveness of modern students studying within the Bologna system (from 1 to 3 courses). As a result of the analysis of theoretical, scientific and practical bibliographic sources on the research problem, we present foreign researchers’ various points of view on the concepts of «self-confidence», «assertiveness» and what influences them. The research sample consisted of 315 participants, 110 men and 205 women, aged 18 to 30 years (M = 20.5). The participants were the representatives of higher educational institutions from the Republic of Moldova (Western Europe) and volunteers from the Internet, students of full-time and part-time education. The results of the study showed that students of private universities are more self-confident and assertive than students of state ones; male students are more self-confident than female students, but equal in assertiveness; students with a high level of economic well-being turned out to be the most confident and assertive, students with an average level of economic well-being were slightly less self-confident and assertive, and students with a low level of economic well-being turned out to be the least confident and assertive; students from rural areas are more self-confident, but equal in assertiveness with urban ones; 2nd year students are more self-confident and assertive than students 3 and 1, whose assertiveness is equal. Self-confidence has long been of growing interest among researchers, because this quality makes people happy, promotes all-round development, increases communication efficiency, and its absence impedes personal development and reduces efficiency. Assertive behavior is also important for modern students because it is based on balance. A person is frank about his intentions, but at the same time he/she considers the rights and needs of other people. In this case, the student is confident and draws from this the strength to state his/her point of view in a firmly fair and balanced way.

꽃의 이미지를 활용한 업스타일 연구

Recently, the average age of marriage has gradually increased, and the micro-wedding has become more popular. Under these circumstances, this study is meaningful in that it aimed to examine the diversity of updo hairstyles in simplified wedding culture. In updo hair accessories, there has been an attempt to change from artificial jewelry to natural flowers. Even during such transition, the pursuit of beauty remains unchanged. As the richness and beauty of flowers in diverse colors and shapes make people happy, this study attempted to express beauty, using up-styling techniques and elements such as shape, texture and color with flower images as motives with a goal of making guests happy and satisfied. To meet a bride’s desire to remember her wedding moment forever and make her more beautiful with a flower-based updo style, this study created hairstyles with flowers as motives for a blessed wedding. Specifically, yellow chrysanthemum and green calla symbolize ‘wealth & authority’ and ‘love of thousand years’ respectively while pink Lamprocapnosand green rose represent ‘love in heat shape’ and ‘world of imagination’ each.

IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE

Purpose: If you look at the big picture a society’s culture determines how people behave, respond, and interact with one another and how fast the society can grow as a community. This definition holds true for organizational culture too. The purpose of this research is to find out the impact of organizational culture on employee performance, how engaged employees are at work depends on how happy and comfortable they feel about the organizational culture. Methodology: The method used in this article is a qualitative method, where we describe how organizational culture affects employee performance. The data collection technique is done by observation through articles available on trusted journal pages. Findings: The goal of an organization is to increase level of performance by designing strategies. Based on the results of data analysis, organizational culture helps retain top performance and valuable talent. It creates a culture of engagement and increases
 employee productivity It makes people happy and excited about the workplace. How culture affects employee engagement about 87% of organizations agree that employee engagement and culture are the two most vital workplace challenges.

Conjugated Polymers for Photo-electrochromic Devices

It is clear that the new generation smart windows will develop much more in the coming yearsand in this sense, new multifunctional materials will be used in this field. While the easy use of suchapplications makes people happy, on the other hand, it also highlights energy efficient housing andtransportation for humanity. There are some interesting parameters such as the control of daylight enteringor leaving smart windows, self-power supply, and display functionality. Among the various chromogeniccolor changes, electrochromic methods are the fastest and easiest to control. Electrochromic materials arehigh-performance materials that are preferred both in the scientific world and in technological devices withtheir interesting electrochemical and optical properties. These materials can be inorganic or organic based,such as transition metal oxides, viologen systems and conductive polymers. Among them, electrochromicconductive polymers attract more attention with their superior mechanical, electrochemical and opticalproperties in portable electronics. Moreover, the ease and low cost of the synthesis procedures, as well asits low power and performance superiority, further solidify its rise among other materials in this sense. Bymodifying the chemical structures of conductive electrochromic polymers (or monomers) as desired, sharpand vivid color changes can be observed even at room temperature. The development of new electrochromicpolymers can be with various modifications of the main chain, as well as side chain engineering,morphology control. Electrochromic properties of thin films of conductive polymers polymerized bychemical or electrochemical methods can be used in photo-electrochromic applications for informationstorage and various imaging purposes. In this study, it is desired to give information about conjugatedpolymers for self-powered electrochromic windows.

An Integrated Model to Improve Job Satisfaction: A Case for a Sustainable Construction Industry

In the last few years, the fields of management, social psychology, and business operations have all paid a large amount of attention to the academic idea of job satisfaction. This paper looks at more than a decade of research into what makes people happy at work and what happens to them as a result. Companies have started to realize that their employees are their most valuable asset in this time of rapid change. There is no specific model of the job satisfaction of construction workers in developing countries. Thus, this paper evaluates the different job satisfaction models and also proposes an integrated job satisfaction model for construction industry workers. The data were collected from experts in the construction industry using a questionnaire survey and almost 290 experts participated in this research to assist in the development of the model. The data were analyzed using SPSS. The model was developed and validated using Smart PLS. Eight key aspects were found to be very important to improving the job satisfaction of construction workers in developing countries. Job compensation packages given to construction workers, work–life balance, career growth, and job security are the top key features investigated in this study. It is concluded that satisfied and motivated employees are imperative for the construction business, and that this is also a key factor that separates successful companies from others. The findings of this paper contribute to UN-SDG 8 “Decent Work and Economic Growth” and UN-SDG 9 “Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure”.

Research on Music Make People Happy

Extensive research has determined that music possesses the ability to evoke affective responses within human beings by systematically triggering the parts of the human brain that are controlled and regulated by means of dopamine. The concept of music holds an enigmatic quality, and it has been determined that it has been present throughout ancient human history as well. Hence it can be readily established that music holds a certain modicum of hedonic power that enables it to induce certain feelings of intrinsic satisfaction and happiness that can effectively mitigate the impact of mental stressors and initiate feelings of motivation, encouragement and power. This research article aims to systematically deduce the ability of music to invoke feelings of happiness within the minds of individuals. This research employed a secondary qualitative research design. A substantial body of literature was extracted from extant research publications and subjected to a systematic content analysis. Through this research, it can be readily concluded that music can potentially affect the human brain in profound ways. Listening to music can directly evoke feelings and emotions pertaining to happiness. The general happiness and satisfaction from ones life can be accurately measured through the levels of associated subjective wellbeing of a human at any particular point in time. This particular value averages at a certain level, which is representative of generalized life satisfaction in human beings and is directly proportional to happiness.

Feeling Good, Living Well: The Importance of Happiness for Health

Feeling Good, Living Well: The Importance of Happiness for Health

A Critical Evaluation of Mobile Court Act 2009: How Mobile Court Demolishes Separation of Judiciary and Other Constitutional Principles of Bangladesh

Separation of power is a key for the independence of people. Though this principle has not been accepted by the framer of constitution of Bangladesh. Nevertheless separation of judiciary is adopted by the maker of constitution. Judiciary is a place to restore the claims of the people of a country. But it cannot make people happy if it is not independent. The principle of separation of judiciary has been violated by various approaches. One of them is Mobile court. Mobile court is a forum which goes to the threshold of public in order to give prompt relief. It has reversed the general rules of judicial system. Though this fact claims appreciation for delivering justice. But it has been criticized as it is conducted by executive. This paper shows how mobile court infringed article 22 of constitution. It also shows how other principle of constitution is violated. Finally it gives some suggestion for the improvement of the situation.

The Pleasure to Smile: A Review Article

Most people find happiness by making money, eating good food, or spending time with friends. Epicurean philosophy provides an explanation of what makes people happy and how to experience joy and pleasure in life. Gossipiboma is a rare complication that can occur due to human negligence. Gossipiboma’s form as a complication of inflammatory reaction to a surgical sponge or a laparotomy pad left mistakenly in the body of the patient after a surgical procedure. The term Gossipiboma is a combination of two words from two different languages; Gossypium a Latin word which mean cotton and boma a Kiswahili word which means plan of concealment. Their incidence is reported to be 1 in 1000 to 1500 surgery. We present here a case of a 67-year-old male who had a history of right-sided Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy (PCNL) five years back. No immediate post procedure complications occurred however the patient presented to the Outpatient Department (OPD) with left flank pain and his Computed Tomography (CT) scan was done which showed an organized Gossipiboma.Most people find happiness by making money, eating good food, or spending time with friends. Epicurean philosophy provides an explanation of what makes people happy and how to experience joy and pleasure in life. It focuses on the absence of pain as the path to happiness and advocates leading a simple lifestyle. There are people in the world who are happy just because they live and they live much longer without cancer, cardiovascular or other social important diseases. The material measurability of the timelessness in which we live does not exist, and the virtues have preserved them above all as human beings. They have the ability to enjoy the simple things in life, which in most cases are not financially commensurate. The connection between the beauty of the smile, positive health and longevity has been consciously sought. All aspects of the life of the Bulgarian population are outlined, which are positive and could lead them out of the black rankings for morbidity and mortality in Europe and the world. Questions are raised related to the health and activity of long-lived and centenarians and what in the modern way of life turn this trend into a negative one.

Construction and evaluation of China older-adult care service smart supply chain system.

As the aging of the population continues to deepen, the pressure on social pensions is gradually increasing, and the issue of assistance has become a problem that must be solved. With the development of science and technology, people's living standard is constantly improving. The older-adult care services expected by the older-adult are wider than meeting the basic daily needs of individuals. The current industry should also consider combining modern science and technology with the older-adult care service industry to serve older-adult better and enable older-adult care service providers to move towards the service needs that make people happier and healthier. This research is about constructing and evaluating China's older-adult care services smart supply chain. Based on the research results of previous scholars, this paper divides the Sun construction of the smart supply chain of China endowment service into four aspects: policy aspect, economic aspect, social aspect, and technical aspect; the four significant elements are divided into the first-level indicators, and 16 second-level indicators are divided under the first-level indicators. The importance and satisfaction of each evaluation index were obtained by distributing questionnaires to the managers who study the supply chain and the employees who are related to the old-age service. After the reliability analysis, the importance-performance analysis (IPA) quadrant analysis chart of the evaluation index was constructed using importance-performance analysis. The index of creating a smart supply chain system for China's old-age service is given priority, the supply chain system of China's old-age care service is further improved, and the social security of China's old-age service is enlarged.

Well-Being and Geography: Modelling Differences in Regional Well-Being Profiles in Case of Spatial Dependence—Evidence from Turkey

The aim of this study is to provide a new quantitative perspective on the geography of well-being using an urban–rural typology and characteristic city size elements in order to detect where people are happier and to examine the determinants of well-being by considering spatial dependence effects. We use 81 NUTS 3 regions and the time period 2012–2019 to analyse the geography of well-being for Turkey with panel and spatial panel models. Our results show that living in an urban area, in general, makes people happy, but that density negatively affects well-being. In addition, city size matters for enhancing well-being. We also analyse the determinants of well-being by using several socio-economic well-being indicators. Next, the aspatial and spatial model results based on spatial econometric regressions show that education, health, employment, and income are all important for well-being, whereas indirect effects (spillovers) of these indicators also exist. Our results indicate that ignoring spatial effects causes a misinterpretation of the effects of critical determinants of well-being in geography.