Perception Of Happiness Research Articles

Factors Affecting the Perception of Happiness among Teachers in Vietnam

Vietnam is in the process of implementing education reforms in which teachers play a crucial role in determining success. This study aims to identify the main factors influencing the perception of happiness at work of Vietnamese teachers during the period of educational reform. In any period, teachers are always considered as being the force behind the success of education. Therefore, teachers' happiness is the most vital factor to be taken into consideration when educating students. Identifying the factors that affect teachers' happiness at work is the key to improving their teaching quality and quality of life. This study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting the perceived happiness of secondary school teachers in Vietnam today, thereby objectively assessing the emotional status of teachers in Vietnam in relation to the work they are doing. The results are as follows: 1) Teachers face a lot of pressure from many sides; 2) There is still a large percentage of teachers who do not really attach importance to the teaching profession; 3) State policies have not helped teachers feel secure in their professional activities; 4) Teacher capacity still needs to be greatly improved; 5) It is necessary to strengthen the connection between teachers, educational leaders, policy makers, school administrators and colleagues. This study uses descriptive statistics to present the research results. The survey was carried out in September 2021.

청소년 운동선수들의 생애목표와 스포츠 행복지각의 관계에서 그릿(Grit)과 운동정체성의 매개효과

The purpose of this study is to analyze structural relations among the life goals, grit, athletic identity, and sports happiness perception of adolescent athletes and also the mediating effects of grit and athletic identity between life goals and sports happiness perception. For this purpose, the investigator applied the purposive sampling method to male and female athletes in physical education and general middle and school schools around the nation and used 319 final valid samples in total in an analysis. Data was treated with SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 22.0. A fitness test was conducted for the entire models and followed by the testing of hypotheses. The findings were as follows: first, orientation toward life and achievement under life goals had positive effects on the grit of adolescent athletes; secondly, grit had significant effects on their athletic identity; thirdly, athletic identity had significant impacts on their sports happiness perception; and finally, grit and athletic identity had significant mediating effects on relations between their life goals and sports happiness perception. In short, instructors in the field of sports and parents need to take a lot of interest and make much effort to help adolescent athletes have harmonious life goals before having worries over such negative outcomes as their quitting decision, stress, exhaustion, and depression.

Enlightening wellbeing in the home: The impact of natural light design on perceived happiness and sadness in residential spaces

As more people move towards work-from-home options during the COVID-19 pandemic, residential indoor environments are increasingly becoming places where we spend a large share of our time living, working and studying. While the relevance of indoor environments for our emotional wellbeing is well established, little is known about the specific aspects of residential indoor spaces that affect negative and positive emotions. This article studies the relationship between natural lighting in the home and the emotional subjective wellbeing (E-SWB) of its inhabitants. In a randomised control trial, we test the hypothesis that natural lighting improvements in housing contribute to residents' E-SWB, determining which aspects of housing daylight design are more relevant for this. A total of 750 participants took part in the experiment and rated, according to their perceived happiness or sadness, a series of 3D computer simulations representing seven types of natural lighting improvements in the home. The results show that the natural lighting conditions of housing significantly impact people's perceptions of happiness and sadness, with settings that have an increased amount of daylight entering the home leading to the greatest impacts.

Do Emotional Perceptions of Visible Greeneries Rely on the Largeness of Green Space? A Verification in Nanchang, China

Experiencing nature can induce the perception of happiness because of mental stress alleviation and well-being restoration. The largeness of green space may not always mean the frequency of experiencing greenery. It is arguing about the probability of positive sentiments in response to an experience of interacting with green nature. In this study, 38 green spaces were investigated in Nanchang City, China, where the green space area was evaluated by the largeness of the landscape metrics of the Normalized Vegetation Index (NDVI), and Green View Index (GVI) data were further obtained using Open Street Maps (OSM). The semantic segmentation method was used by machine learning to analyze a total of 1549 panoramic photos taken in field surveys to assess the Panoramic Green View Index (PGVI) proportion. The photos of 2400 people’s facial expressions were obtained from social networks at their check-in visits in green spaces and rated for happy and sad scores using FireFACE software. Split-plot analysis of variance suggested that different categories of NDVI largeness had a significant positive effect on posted positive sentiments. Multivariate linear regression indicated that PGVI was estimated to have a significant contribution to facial expression. Increasing the amount of PGVI promoted happy and PRI scores, while at the same time, neutral sentiments decreased with increasing PGVI. Overall, increasing the PGVI in green spaces, especially in parks with smaller green spaces, can be effective in promoting positive emotions in the visitor experience.

The Current Status of Secondary School Teacher’s Perception of Happiness in Nam Dinh Province during the Implementation Period of the 2018 General Education Program

In the current context of a major revolution in the Vietnamese education system, teachers’ perception of happiness makes an important criterion in evaluating effectiveness of the changes made to educational programs. The initial investigation of the positive effects of this renovation was conducted on the scale of Nam Dinh province and the results show multidimensional sources of information. In addition to positive information, there is still information that raises many questions for leaders to pay attention to. The outcome of the investigation suggests the evaluation of “The job is meaningful” is 3.10 out of 5 points, which is the lowest in assessment criteria. Meanwhile, the rates for “Completely disbelieve” and “Slightly disbelieve” in happiness of their profession in the future take up a large proportion (24.4%). However, other criteria namely “Being satisfied with current position” and “Feeling motivated with the job” received higher evaluation scores, respectively 4.05/5 points and 4.11/5 points. Via the results of the research, the author is looking forward to appropriate actions taken by the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam with a view to enhancing the perception of happiness among teachers.

Prediction Analysis of College Teachers’ Happiness Based on the Graph Convolutional Network

College teachers are the source of creativity in the education system, and the happiness of college teachers can be fully ensured in order to cultivate better talents. To address the current problem that the trend of happiness of college teachers is unclear and the direction of enhancing happiness is unknown. We propose a method to predict the happiness of university teachers based on a graph convolution framework. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of teachers’ happiness factors in terms of academic innovation, job satisfaction, and student training rate to achieve a trend prediction of teachers’ happiness and provide a clear direction for improving happiness. We use the graph convolution structure to input the happiness factors as graph nodes into the graph convolution layer. We attach a sparse layer to the temporal convolution structure to obtain the time-scale information of happiness factor nodes in different research cycles. Finally, we cooperate with an e-commerce platform and use mobile app data as the feedback experimental database. The experimental results show that teachers with different years of experience perceive different levels of happiness factors, and different emotional stimuli also affect teachers' perceptions of happiness.

Signs of Happiness on The Captions of Cinta Laura Kiehl’s Instagram

The semiotic phenomenon is known to be closely related in the field of communication. This research especially focuses on the semiosis process identified from Cinta Laura Kiehl’s Instagram captions as a famous celebrity in Indonesia. The semiotic sign relation is seen through her captions that do not only include the text but also a form of icon reflected through emoticons added in the captions. This study applied qualitative research method to present the data analysis. Moreover, this research also uses several guiding perceptions with the main theory of sign relation by Charles Sanders Peirce and the supporting perception of happiness by Martin Seligman. There are several results determined from this research. The first result shows that the symbol sign relations in Cinta’s Instagram captions are in the form of texts that conveyed meaning in the expression of happiness that Cinta shares based on her life. Moreover, the emoticons in her Instagram captions have the function to enhance the expressions and contexts that the symbol initially stands for. The second result shows that the signs of happiness from Cinta’s Instagram captions are divided into two main aspects of relationship and achievements. Thus, the sign relations in Cinta’s Instagram captions are used in conveying the expressions of happiness Cinta shares based on her life.

Developing Firms’ Collective Emotional Intelligence with Subjective Well-Being and Happiness Perception as Triggers.

Currently, organizations carry out processes for the development of strategies that helps increasing their competitiveness. To achieve this, organizations implement a systematization of the activities that must be developed to acquire knowledge and that with it they are able to develop processes that reflect collective intelligence that affects socioeconomic growth and intervene in the decision-making process. Taking into consideration that in the current environment of companies, there is a combination between human and technological elements, in which the former depends on an immeasurable number of variables that condition their behaviour, level of satisfaction and performance, for the purposes of this study, two variables are taken to verify the level of incidence they have on the development of collective intelligence from complex processes in the social sphere. Keywords: Collective Intelligence, Happiness, Well-Being, Collective Intelligence, Technology-Based Firms

Does obesity rule out happiness? Preschool children’s perceptions of beauty-related happiness

BackgroundObesity is considered to be one of the most important factors reducing the sense of happiness and satisfaction with life, especially among women. This belief already exists in middle childhood, as the preschool period is a crucial point in the development of attitudes towards beauty. Preschoolers can identify physically attractive individuals, and they might already form attributions regarding the looks of adults (especially women), which in turn may constitute a foundation for their future concept of beauty-related happiness. Children’s attitudes towards the body are also strongly influenced by the content of gender stereotypes that prescribe and proscribe what women and men should look like. In our study, we aimed to analyse the relationship between associations of obesity and happiness made by preschool girls and boys (5-year-olds).MethodsA total of 680 families with five-year-old children (329 girls, 351 boys; Mage = 5.7 years) and both parents took part in the study. Children’s associations of different types of body sizes with perceptions of happiness were measured with the Beauty & Health pictorial scale.ResultsOur results indicate that obese bodies were seen as unattractive, independent of gender (p < .001). Children associated looks with happiness—the body type identified as the most physically attractive was also seen as a happiest person. Lowest happiness scores were also ascribed to obese body types, but girls assessed men with a normal body type as happier than boys (t = 2.87, p = .004).ConclusionsFemale bodies are already perceived along gender stereotypical lines at the age of 5, and are also related to potential predictions concerning women’s happiness. Children assessed female individuals with slim bodies, as well as those with normal weight, as happier than obese females.

Social media and happiness nexus in the millennial generation

The current paper empirically examines the relationship between social media and happiness. Unlike existing works, we study this nexus from a global perspective using a cross-sectional model consisting of 140 countries on data from 2012 to 2017. Assuming that this effect may differ according to the average level of perception of happiness in each country, we use the quantile regression framework to yield more accurate inferences. The findings show that social media measured by Facebook penetration has a positive and significant relationship with happiness, and this positive nexus differs in terms of amplitude and significance throughout the conditional distribution of the happiness index. However, analysis in different samples reveal that this positive nexus is not universal and differs with the level of economic development of the countries and from one region to another. We put forward mental illness approximated by anxiety as the main transmission channel.

Conceptions of happiness in relation to mindfulness

The preponderance of happiness research has centred on happiness's levels, predictors, and repercussions. Students’ everyday perceptions of happiness, on the other hand, have received a lot less attention. The study was conducted to investigate mindfulness in relation with various conceptions of happiness in academic setting. The sample of the study comprised 150 university students. The measures of the study included Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (Brown &amp; Ryan, 2003), Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives for Activities (Huta &amp; Ryan, 2010), Fear of happiness Scale (Joshanloo &amp; Weijers, 2014), Fragility of happiness scale (Joshanloo, Weijers, 2015), Externality of happiness scale (Joshanloo, 2017), Transformative Suffering scale (Joshanloo, 2014), Valuing Happiness Scale (Mauss, Tamir, Anderson &amp; Savino, 2011), Inflexibility of Happiness Scale (Joshanloo, 2019), &amp; Inclusive Happiness Scale (Joshanloo, 2019). The results of the study revealed that mindfulness was significantly and positively correlated with eudaimonism (r=0.351), transformative suffering (r=0.299), inclusive happiness (r=0.368) at p&lt;0.01 and with valuing happiness (r=0.186) at p&lt;0.05. It was seen that mindfulness was significantly and negatively correlated with externality of happiness (r= -0.491), fear of happiness (r= -0.408), fragility of happiness (r= -0.437), and inflexibility of happiness (r= -0.446) at p&lt;0.01.

Effect of skin colors due to hemoglobin or melanin modulation on facial expression recognition

Facial color is thought to contribute to the perception of emotional expression. Previous studies on facial recognition have shown that reddish and bluish faces enhance the perceptions of anger and sadness, respectively. However, the effect of facial color on the recognition of facial expressions in the range of natural skin colors remains unexplored. In this study, we examined the effect of natural skin color changes on the perception of facial expressions of anger, sadness, and happiness. We used five skin color conditions for each facial expression: standard, and hemoglobin or melanin decrease/increase (H-, H+, M-, and M + ). In the experiment, we used images of different facial expressions ranging from neutral to maximum intensity. Observers judged whether a face stimulus was perceived as “angry” (“happy” or “sad”) or “not angry” (“not happy” or “not sad”). The results showed that H+, M+, H-, and M- enhanced the perception of anger and happiness, respectively. However, the change in the perception of sadness due to these modulations was small. These results suggest that the range of natural facial colors by hemoglobin and melanin modulation affects facial expression recognition. We further consider the possibility that these results could be partially explained by the lightness of the stimulus.

Building resilience: a case study of occupational factors influencing levels of ‘happiness’ for Abu Dhabi police officers

Abstract The policing and security community globally is in a race against time to develop strategies for improving mental health well-being amongst the profession. For professionals across the multiple contributing areas supporting police officer well-being, i.e. medical practitioners, psychologists, management professionals, mentors, coaches, counsellors, understanding contributing factors from the experience, and perception of police officers is a critical contributing area of research (Baker et al., 2020; Deschênes et al., 2018. Psychosocial factors linked to the occupational psychological health of police officers: preliminary study. Cogent Psychology 5(1): 1426271; Purba and Demou, 2019. The relationship between organisational stressors and mental wellbeing within police officers: a systematic review. BMC Public Health 19(1): 1286) The aim of the study reported in this paper was to evaluate the influence of work factors of organizational rewards, job characteristics, and factors relating to working in a public service agency on an officer’s perception of happiness. A survey was distributed to police officers in the Abu Dhabi police force, with an inferential analysis conducted to examine the relationships between work factors and levels of officer happiness. The findings identified employee perception of organizational rewards, job control, task significance, frequency of feedback, desire for helping others as primary reasons to work in the police, and opportunities available to help others in society were all predictors of police happiness. This article discusses specifically the employees’ perception of rewards at work and job characteristics as determinants of happiness. The findings contributing to development of future organizational response for enhancing officer well-being and importantly inform in building resilience to mental health illness for police officers.

컨벤션베뉴의 장소성이 참가자의 장소행복감 및 행동 의도에 미치는 영향 연구

A special and memorable experience in a certain place affects the sense of place happiness, and this plays an important role in revisiting the place. Recently, convention destinations at home and abroad use both a convention center, which is a traditional convention facility, for meetings and unique venues for official and hospitality events such as opening ceremonies, dinners, and receptions, to strengthen emotional ties with participants. This study investigated the effects of participants’ happiness perceptions at the convention venue on their behavior intention. A total of 241 questionnaires were collected through on-site surveys at the Gyeongju Hwabaek Convention Center (HICO) for convention participants who experienced the convention center and unique venues at the same time. Except for 46 questionnaires of respondents who had never visited a unique venue, including unusable ones, 195 questionnaires were used for the analyses. As a result of the empirical analyses, academic and practical implications were presented by confirming that the psychological as well as emotional placeness factors perceived by insiders at the convention venue could affect participants’ happiness and their intention to revisit the convention destination rather than the physical and active spatiality placeness factors.

Differing animal welfare conceptions and what they mean for the future of zoos and aquariums, insights from an animal welfare audit.

Animal welfare is a growing public concern that has the potential to undermine the social license of zoos and aquariums. The lack of consensus on how animal welfare is defined across such a diverse sector combined with and a widespread belief that commercial priorities such as entertaining visitors conflicts with animal welfare, hinders efforts to effectively address this fundamental issue for the sector. Data derived from an audit of habitats across a major North American wildlife attraction revealed that holistic animal welfare assessments undertaken by animal carers embracing three principal constructs of animal welfare, correlated strongly with visitor perceptions of animal happiness. Visitor assessments of animal happiness also correlated with animal carer assessments of social, behavioural and locomotor opportunities and inversely with the prevalence of stereotypic behaviours, supporting the proposition that folk conceptions of animal welfare are more accurate than may have previously been considered to be the case. However, the holistic animal welfare assessment inversely correlated with assessments of a habitat's capacity to safeguard welfare as determined by the facility's veterinary staff, supporting the proposition that tensions exist between physical and psychological components of captive animal welfare provisioning. This further underlines the importance of clarity on how animal welfare is conceived when developing institutional animal welfare strategies. Finally, the data also showed that both holistic animal welfare assessments and visitor perceptions of animal happiness strongly correlated with the level of enjoyment experienced by visitors, challenging the belief that animal welfare competes with the commercial priorities of zoos and aquariums. The audit supports the case that maintaining high animal welfare is a commercial imperative as well as a moral obligation for zoos and aquariums and underlines the necessity to utilize conceptions of animal welfare that acknowledge the centrality of the affective states of animals in maintaining those standards.

Androstadienone influences women’s perception of happiness and anger on same-sex faces: Preliminary findings

This study investigated whether androstadienone (AND) influences women’s emotional perception of potential mates and rivals in a manner that promotes women’s reproductive success. Sixty participants (29 in the fertile phase and 31 in the luteal phase) rated their perception of happiness, sadness, anger and sexual arousal from male and female neutral faces during exposure to AND or control solution on two consecutive days. The results showed that AND led women to perceive neutral female faces as unhappier, regardless of their menstrual cycle phase. In addition, AND led women in the fertile phase (i.e., periovulatory phase) to perceive more anger from neutral female faces. Further, no AND-effects were found on the emotional perception of male faces, nor were there perceptions of the sadness or sexual arousal in female faces. These findings may suggest that AND influences women’s cognitive processing that can benefit women from staying away from potential threats or preparing to reduce the costs of intrasexual competition.

Percepción de salud, de soledad, de felicidad e imagen corporal según el tipo de desayuno durante el confinamiento a causa de la Covid-19

The aim was to determine the relationship between the perception of health, loneliness, happiness and body image according to the type of breakfast during the state of alarm decreed by the COVID-19 in primary schoolchildren. For this purpose, a descriptive cross-sectional study was designed with a sample of 116 Spanish schoolchildren. Perceptions of health, loneliness, happiness and body image were assessed using four items from the Health Behavior in School-aged Children questionnaire. The items referring to breakfast were extracted from the Mediterranean Diet Quality Index in children and adolescents questionnaire. After inferential analysis, it was observed that eating a cereal or derivative for breakfast was associated with a higher perception of health (OR = 1.45; p = 0.021), happiness (OR = 1.57; p = 0.002), body image (OR = 1.70; p = 0.006), and lower perception of loneliness (OR = 1.74; p = 0.002). This association was maintained after adjustment for body image with the exception of health perception (OR = 1.53, p = 0.156). In conclusion, eating a cereal or derivative for breakfast may be related to a higher perception of health, happiness, body image, and lower perception of loneliness in primary school children.

Investigation of the Perception of Occupational Safety, Work Stress and Happiness in Healthcare Workers

This study aims to examine the relationships between occupational safety, work stress and happiness perceptions of nurses and other healthcare workers working in a university hospital. No sample was selected in the study, the data collection tool was distributed to all employees who agreed to participate in the study and 195 usable questionnaires have been obtained. According to the correlation analysis results, there are negative and weak relationships between occupational safety and work stress, positive and weak relationships between occupational safety and happiness, and negative and weak relationships between work stress and happiness. According to the regression analysis results, it has been determined that perceived occupational safety explains 4.1% of the total variance on work stress, 8.4% of the total variance on happiness and perceived work stress explains 12.4% of the total variance on happiness. The study also found that the variable affecting perceived happiness the most is work stress.

An Exploratory Study on Subjective Perceptions of Happiness From India.

The present study aimed at understanding the subjective perception of happiness in a sample of Indian participants from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. Using convenience sampling, individual interviews were conducted with 60 participants aged between 19 to 73 years (M Age = 40 years). This study employed reflexive thematic analysis to analyse the written transcripts. Nine themes were generated which captured the essence of happiness for Indians—Feelings and Expressions of Happiness; Human Ties and Happiness which encompassed four sub-themes—family bond, the company one keeps, the pandemic and social disengagement, and the nation, society and happiness; Satisfaction with Material Needs and Resources; Lifestyle and Health; Work and Play; Accomplishment and Appreciation; Nature Connectedness; Religious and Spiritual beliefs; and Happiness as a Personal responsibility—Role of Positive Personality Traits. These findings revealed our respondent's multidimensional conceptualization of happiness, and adds to the growing body of happiness literature from the South Asian context.

The Impact of Religion and Social Support on Self-Reported Happiness in Latin American Immigrants in Spain

The Latin American immigrant population in Spain is growing year after year. The aim of this study is to describe how religious coping mechanisms, religiosity, acculturation and social support act in the prediction of happiness within the group of Latin American immigrants with Christian beliefs in Spain. Previous studies indicate that religious practice can be a factor that favors the perception of well-being and happiness in people. It is considered that the existence of close sources of support act as a key resource in facing stressful situations. A questionnaire consisting of 36 items was administered to a sample made up of 206 subjects of different Latin American nationalities who were going through a migration process. It was observed that religiosity, social support, religious coping mechanisms and gender were related to the perception of happiness. The results underline the importance of considering religiosity and social support together while intervening to improve the perception of happiness of Latin American immigrants in Spain.