Perspective Of Well-being Research Articles

Haiti, new immigrant community in Chile

Migration is a growing phenomenon in Latin America influenced by several factors such as economic stability, employment, social welfare, education and health system. Currently Chile has a positive migration flow rate. Particularly, a significant number of Haitian immigrants has been observed du ring the last years, especially after earthquake of 2010. These immigrants present a different cultural background expressed in relevant aspects of living including parenting and healthcare. Knowing the Haitian culture and its health situation is relevant for a better understanding of their health needs. Haitian people come to Chile looking for a cordial reception and willing to find a place with better perspectives of wellbeing in every sense. Immigration represents a major challenge for Chilean health system that must be embraced. Integration efforts in jobs, health, education system and community living should be enhanced to ensure a prosper settlement in our country. A new immigration law is crucial to solving major problems derived from current law created in 1975.

The Life Story Board: A Task-Oriented Research Tool to Explore Children’s Perspectives of Well-Being

A multinational study to understand well-being from children’s perspectives in the Children’s Worlds International Survey of Children’s Well-being (ISCWeB) recently undertook qualitative analytical research to explore children’s conceptualization of well-being in Children’s Understanding of Well-being (CUWB). This has challenged researchers to utilize methods that are meaningful and engaging, child-centred and balance children’s rights to participation and protection, and are practical and time-expedient. The paper describes the findings from a qualitative investigation of a task-oriented research tool, the Vidaview Life Story Board (LSB), used to explore school-age children’s understanding of well-being. Twenty-one children between 8 and 12 years of age from the Canadian pilot of the CUWB were interviewed using the LSB. The children and the interviewer were asked to assess their experience with the LSB. Results suggested that children found the LSB to be engaging and helpful to facilitate their articulation of subjective well-being. The main themes that emerged were: autonomy and inclusiveness; validation of children’s experiences and agency; and child-centred approach. The findings suggest that the LSB seems to be a promising participatory, child-centred, rights-based qualitative research tool.

Well-being through learning: a systematic review of learning interventions in the workplace and their impact on well-being

ABSTRACTThe view that learning is central to well-being is widely held and the workplace is an important setting in which learning takes place. Evaluations of the effectiveness of well-being interventions in work settings are commonplace, but to date, there has been no systematic review of the effectiveness of learning interventions with regard to their impact on well-being. The review synthesizes evidence from 41 intervention studies, and although no studies report a negative impact on well-being, 14 show no effect on well-being, with 27 studies having a positive impact. We classify the studies according to the primary purpose of the learning intervention: to develop personal resources for well-being through learning; to develop professional capabilities through learning; to develop leadership skills through learning; and to improve organizational effectiveness through organizational-level learning. Although there is an abundance of workplace learning interventions, few are evaluated from a well-being perspective despite the commonly held assumption that learning yields positive emotional and psychological outcomes. The evidence indicates an important gap in our evaluation of and design of workplace learning interventions and their impact on well-being, beyond those focusing on personal resources. This raises important theoretical and practical challenges concerning the relationship between learning and well-being in the context of professional capability enhancement, leadership capability and organizational learning.

Parenthood and Marital Relationship in Middle-Aged adults: From a Perspective of Subjective Well-being

Parenthood and Marital Relationship in Middle-Aged adults: From a Perspective of Subjective Well-being

A study on emotional intelligence well-being and emotional baggage perspective

Businesses are essentially the people in it, so anything that influences the effectiveness of their minds also has its impact on businesses they run or work for. Emotional intelligence has been now branded as a trait required for any employee in an organisation. Emotions play a deciding role in the quality of our personal and professional lives, more than our actual brain intelligence. The scope of this study is on young employees as they are more volatile and fail to recognise the need for emotional intelligence and its role in well-being. This study throws light on the handling of their emotions by employees and its impact on personal well-being. It also aims at finding the key influencers of emotional suppression. For the study, 100 samples were collected from young IT sector employees working in Chennai using convenience sampling. A well-structured questionnaire was used to collect the data from the respondents. The data was analysed using SPSS. The study shows that EI and its dimensions have a significant effect on well-being. And emotional intelligence and well-being scores of respondents can be used to determine their level of emotional suppression.

Prologue: Juvenility Inferences of Parental Advance Aging

Couples are escalating delay in childbearing to the late 35 s (female), the 40 s (males) and afar. The surmising of this collective and societal transformation on youth constitution and salubriousness has just at present been a spotlight of research. There are distinguished intensified perinatal risks related with expanding maternal age, notwithstanding the way that fatherly age seems to have a presumably predominant adverse impingement on youth well-being. Although the preeminent rate of poor gravidness consequence may contrast from individual to singular point of view, the impingement of postponing childbearing from a general wellbeing perspective cannot be swelled and should be in the pattern of general wellbeing plan for the coming years. Recognizing the part of components and black box, characteristically the maturing of the gametes, and how this change effects on preparation, blastulation lastly the posterity, is an essential and consequent advance as we attempt to help patients outline sound families.

Adaptación de la Escala de Satisfacción Académica en Estudiantes Universitarios Chilenos

The analysis of academic satisfaction is a key aspect to explain the quality of learning. To measure the construct, currently there is the Academic Satisfaction Scale (ASS), a measurement instrument based on the psychological wellbeing perspective. Since there is no background regarding its application in the context of Chilean higher education, the aim of the study was to assess the factor structure, internal consistency, and validity of the ASS in a sample of Chilean university students. The participants were 608 students from seven Chilean universities. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) results supported the unifactorial structure proposed in the original model. Finally, the Multi-Group confirmatory factor analysis (MCFA) results supported the measurement model invariance between female and male students. It is concluded that the ASS has adequate psychometric properties to measure academic satisfaction in Chilean university students.

Community caregivers' perspectives of community well-being in a mining community

Mining communities throughout the Southern African Development Community are faced with numerous challenges impacting on their wellbeing. As part of an integrative multidisciplinary research project, this study sought to explore aspects that affect community wellbeing in the informal Bekkersdal mining community in South Africa from the perspective of local community caregivers. An explorative-descriptive qualitative study including 22 mainly female (91%) participants who were purposively sampled was conducted. As part of data collection, participants answered a series of open-ended questions in a questionnaire and kept journals. Thematic analysis was used to analyze that data. The results indicate aspects that either promote (contribute to) or hinder community wellbeing.

Community caregivers' perspectives of community well-being in a mining community

Mining communities throughout the Southern African Development Community are faced with numerous challenges impacting on their wellbeing. As part of an integrative multidisciplinary research project, this study sought to explore aspects that affect community wellbeing in the informal Bekkersdal mining community in South Africa from the perspective of local community caregivers. An explorative-descriptive qualitative study including 22 mainly female (91%) participants who were purposively sampled was conducted. As part of data collection, participants answered a series of open-ended questions in a questionnaire and kept journals. Thematic analysis was used to analyze that data. The results indicate aspects that either promote (contribute to) or hinder community wellbeing.

A comprehensive concomitant analysis of service employees’ well-being and performance

PurposeThe connection between employees’ well-being and performance, although widely studied in organizational psychology, has received much less attention from HRM scholars. The purpose of this paper is to extend the literature by examining the impacts of the multidimensional structure of well-being consisting of psychological, social and health dimensions on employees’ task and contextual performance.Design/methodology/approachThe authors collected data from 281 employees from the New Zealand service sector using a questionnaire survey. Factor analysis was used to determine items that form various facets of well-being and performance constructs. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to test the well-being – performance relationship.FindingsThe findings show that different facets of well-being differentially contribute to employees’ task and contextual performance. Specifically, the facets of happiness and trust were positively associated with both task and contextual performance, while the effects of life satisfaction and work life balance on task and contextual performance were insignificant. Moreover, work intensification was only associated with task performance, in contrast, job satisfaction and over commitment were only related to contextual performance.Practical implicationsThe implications of these findings are two-fold. For researchers, a review and overhaul of the conceptualization and operationalization of well-being in HRM studies is long overdue. For managers, improvements to employees’ job performance and the organization’s health can result from simultaneously enhancing multiple dimensions of employees’ well-being.Originality/valueThis study provides new insights into the complex relationship between well-being and performance by incorporating a multidimensional and multifaceted perspective of well-being and highlighting the distinctive effects of various facets of well-being on different types of employees’ performance.

Thermal Conditions Controlled by Thermostats: An Occupational Comfort and Well-being Perspective

From the perspective of occupational comfort and well-being, indoor thermal condition characterized by its temperature levels, spatial variations, and airflow patterns plays an important role. Studies have demonstrated strong correlations among indoor comfort levels and users' well-being, productivity, and overall health. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been used to investigate indoor thermal comfort. In this research, a private office on the University of Cincinnati campus was selected and studied in order to spatially map the thermal comfort index. Autodesk® CFD, a ventilation simulation software, was utilized to model the office space and air conditioning systems, as well as simulate the airflow in the indoor space. Based on the simulation results, the air speed, ambient temperature, and relative humidity were all obtained for different vent locations. These simulated parameters can be used in dynamic anthropometry to acquire the predicted mean vote (PMV) and temperature in specific office areas. Through this method, a visualized indoor comfort map was developed as a means of indicating potential user comfort effects; spatial variations in the indoor comfort index have also been analyzed and discussed.

Understanding how Indigenous culturally-based interventions can improve participants' health in Canada.

There is increasing recognition that culturally-based diabetes prevention programs can facilitate the adoption and maintenance of healthy behaviours in the communities in which they are implemented. The Kahnawake School Diabetes Prevention Project (KSDPP) is a health promotion, community-based participatory research project aiming to reduce the incidence of Type 2 diabetes in the community of Kahnawake (Mohawk territory, Canada), with a large range of interventions integrating a Haudenosaunee perspective of health. Building on a qualitative, naturalistic and interpretative inquiry, this study aimed to assess the outcomes of a suite of culturally-based interventions on participants' life and experience of health. Data were collected through semi-structured qualitative interviews of 1 key informant and 17 adult, female Kahnawake community members who participated in KSDPP's suite of interventions from 2007 to 2010. Grounded theory was chosen as an analytical strategy. A theoretical framework that covered the experiences of all study participants was developed from the grounded theory analysis. KSDPP's suite of interventions provided opportunities for participants to experience five different change processes: (i) Learning traditional cooking and healthy eating; (ii) Learning physical activity; (iii) Learning mind focusing and breathing techniques; (iv) Learning cultural traditions and spirituality; (v) Socializing and interacting with other participants during activities. These processes improved participants' health in four aspects: mental, physical, spiritual and social. Results of this study show how culturally-based health promotion can bring about healthy changes addressing the mental, physical, spiritual and social dimensions of a holistic concept of health, relevant to the Indigenous perspective of well-being.

Understanding Laudato Si’s View of Ecological Education and Well-Being from an Indigenous Relational Perspective

Pope Francis, in the encyclical Laudato Si’, speaks of an “integral ecology” that combines environmental, economic, social, cultural and spiritual ecologies in caring for our common home. Pope Francis also sees the important role of environmental education in increasing awareness and creating a “culture of care” for our common home and promoting quality of life or well-being. While promoting environmental education, many researchers argue in favor of the effectiveness of the indigenous ecological knowledge and practices to protect and maintain natural environments. Indigenous ecological knowledge systems are based on a process of an intimate relational perspective and a sort of symbiotic relationships between people and the ecological system. These assumptions of indigenous relational perspective and symbiotic relationships demand a holistic or global consciousness, which involves that people recognize the importance of other people and of other species to the global community’s integrated and comprehensive well-being. Based on the premise that indigenous knowledge and ecological systems should be recognized as a foreground in ecology; as an antidote to globalization in sustaining the environment, and as an invaluable tool in providing better quality of life, this paper proposes an integral ecological education model of an “indigenous relational perspective of ecological education and comprehensive well-being.” In this integral ecological education model, specific emphasis is placed on interconnectedness between indigenous aspects of environmental knowledge, kincentric ecology, ecological conversion and harmony, and ecological spirituality in creating a ‘culture of care’ for our common home and in promoting our common good, quality of life, and well-being. In the light of Laudato Si’ and the proposed model, some concrete examples implemented at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan are elucidated.

Una buena vida. Definiendo las capacidades relevantes para el bienestar desde las voces de niñas y niños

En los últimos años, en paralelo al surgimiento de los estudios sobre infancia, como un campo por derecho propio, se ha venido extendiendo una perspectiva multidimensional e integradora del bienestar en la infancia. Una de las cuestiones sobre las que se debate es la participación de niños y las niñas como agentes activos en la propia definición de sus necesidades. El enfoque de las capacidades ofrece un marco teórico muy interesante para avanzar en este sentido puesto reconoce a niñas/os la capacidad de ser agentes, y esto implica tener influencia sobre la propia vida y sobre las reglas generales de la sociedad, siempre en un nivel y formato de acuerdo a la madurez y edad, como algo que debería ser una aspiración de toda sociedad democrática. A la hora de identificar y validar las capacidades relevantes para el bienestar infantil, puede distinguirse entre métodos no participativos y métodos participativos. Este artículo se basa en un proyecto que se decanta por estos últimos. Específicamente, el objetivo de este trabajo, es el de revisar, valorar y definir en palabras de los y las propios niños/as, un listado de capacidades relevantes para su bienestar en un contexto concreto (Andalucía). Para ello se pasó un cuestionario con preguntas tanto abiertas como cerradas a más de 330 niños y niñas andaluces participantes en 10 Consejos Municipales de Infancia y Adolescencia. Los resultados muestran la riqueza y la agencia de las voces infantiles y su percepción de la multidimensionalidad del bienestar.

Family structure and family relationship from the child well-being perspective: Findings from comparative analysis

Relationships within the family are important for the development of children's well-being, as well as for their evaluations of their family and their overall life satisfaction. Nevertheless, little is known about differences in family relationships, family subjective well-being (SWB) and overall SWB of children from different groups, especially those who are living in diverse family structures. The purpose of this study is to explore differences in family relationships, family SWB and overall SWB between children living in three different living arrangements – a two-parent family, a single-parent family and a separated family. The study used data from the second wave of data collection of the Children's Worlds project, a large international study of children's well-being. 20,343 children aged 10–12 from 10 countries constitute the final sample of the current sample. Several agreement, satisfaction and time use questions were applied to measure the children's family relationships and family SWB. Two psychometric scales were used to explore the children's overall SWB. In addition, differences in socio-economic characteristics were also explored. Children living with both parents were found to evaluate their family relationships and family SWB higher than children living in a single parent family and in separated families. Similar results were also found in respect to overall SWB. Not many differences were found between the last two groups, namely these children are quite similar in their perceptions and evaluations of their families and their overall SWB. However, children living in separated families tend to be less satisfied with the people they live with and their family life. This trend was found in all participant countries, although it was less prevalent in Israel and Algeria. The discussion offers several possible explanations to the findings, and emphasizes that the source of the differences may be complex and may include macro and micro explanations.

Happiness:Hedonic and Eudaimonic

'Happiness' is very difficult to define and so also is the case about 'Well-being'. Till today there is no widely accepted definition by the psychologist about these two terms. Happiness and well-being are seems to be synonymous and parallel to each other. There are many parameters of happiness and well-being. Happiness is like a state of deep sleep at night. The way we feel happy in the sleepy mood we must feel the same state of happiness at every moments of our state of consciousness. Subjective well-being, or happiness, in everyday terms, reflects an individual's own judgment about the quality of his or her life. From subjective well-being (SWB) perspective, physical, economic, social, emotional, mental and community indicators are incomplete (Diener & Suh, 1997). Diener (1984) defined Subjective well-being (SWB) as ratings of life satisfaction and positive emotional experiences. There are two traditions of happiness, i.e., Hedonic Happiness and Eudaimonic Happiness. Both the happiness are essential to study at broader level.

Urban Resettlement in Colombo from a Wellbeing Perspective: Does Development-Forced Resettlement Lead to Improved Wellbeing?

Urban Resettlement in Colombo from a Wellbeing Perspective: Does Development-Forced Resettlement Lead to Improved Wellbeing?

Financial well-being: A conceptualization and research agenda

With savings rates at record lows and inadequate long-term financial planning for retirement, financial well-being has become an important topic for individuals and households as well as for societies and countries. Research on the topic, however, remains scarce and scattered across disciplines. The present paper aims to consolidate and extend knowledge on financial well-being and makes a three-fold contribution to the discussion. First, we propose a new definition based on a perceptual perspective of financial well-being and link it to an individual's current and anticipated desired living standard and financial freedom. We then develop a framework that distinguishes key elements of financial well-being; namely, interventions and financial behaviors, consequences, contextual factors, and personal factors. We then present a research agenda to guide future research on financial well-being. This work is designed to inspire researchers to continue expanding the knowledge so that financial institutions can take measures to increase financial well-being.

How to deal with violent and aggressive patients in acute medical settings.

Dealing with violence and aggression is an area where health professionals often feel uncertain. Standing at the interface between medicine, psychiatry and law, the best actions may not be clear, and guidelines neither consistently applicable nor explicit. An aggressive, violent or abusive patient may be behaving anti-socially or criminally. But in acute medical settings it is more likely that a medical, mental health or emotional problem, or some combination thereof, is the explanation and usually we will not know the relative contribution of each element. We must assume that difficult behaviour represents the communication of distress or unmet need. We can prevent and de-escalate situations by understanding why they have arisen, identifying the need, and trying to anticipate or meet it. In these situations 'challenging behaviour' is much like any other presenting problem: the medical approach is to diagnose and treat, while trying to maintain safety and function. In addition, the person-centred approach of trying to understand and address psychological and emotional distress is required. Skilled communication, non-confrontation, relationship-building and negotiation represent the best way to manage situations and avoid harm. If an incident is becoming dangerous, doctors need to know how to act to defuse the situation, or make it safe. Doctors must know about de-escalation and non-drug approaches, but also be confident about when physical restraint and drug treatment are necessary, and how to go about using appropriate drugs, doses, monitoring and aftercare. There are necessary safeguards around using these approaches, from the perspectives of physical health, mental wellbeing, and human rights.

Quality of working life and music in the manufacturing workplace

Abstract This study aimed to understand how the insertion of music in the work environment contributes to achieving Quality of Working Life (QWL), from the perspective of biopsychosocial and organisational well-being. The context where the study was conducted was the manufacturing area of a major textile company located in Natal, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The use of a case study was the research strategy adopted, with exploratory and descriptive objectives. The primary data was collected through the focus group technique and semi-structured interviews were used as an additional tool. Respecting the theoretical saturation criterion, four focus groups were formed, each comprising eight randomly selected participants from the seventy-six co-workers in the sector. The data was analysed qualitatively, using the content analysis technique. Twenty-eight QWL attributes were identified. It was concluded that musical insertion provides biological, social and, above all, psychological and organisational well-being to the co-workers, contributing to achieving QWL in the work environment researched.