Agency, Values, and Well-Being: A Human Development Model

Agency, Values, and Well-Being: A Human Development Model

This paper argues that feelings of agency are linked to human well-being through a sequence of adaptive mechanisms that promote human development, once existential conditions become permissive. In the first part, we elaborate on the evolutionary logic of this model and outline why an evolutionary perspective is helpful to understand changes in values that give feelings of agency greater weight ...

Development and validation of preschool children’s well-being questionnaire

Abstract This research intends to examine the psychometric properties of the Preschool children well-being questionnaire (PCWQ) amongst mothers. The research method was correlation and validation through developing an instrument and reliability assessment. The sample consisted of 460 child selected by cluster multi-stage random sampling method. Preschool children well-being questionnaire was ev...

Cow Milk and Human Development and Well-being

Fifty years ago animal foods were considered complete foods and important for human health. In most developed countries substantial dairy cattle and milk production industries existed which made major contributions to human welfare including the provision of cow milk to infants and young children. Then, over the last forty years, hypotheses have been developed largely by the medical profession ...

Consequences of residential development for biodiversity and human well-being

www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America R development is a leading driver of land-use change and has transformed human and natural communities around the world (McMichael 2000; Alberti 2005; Hansen et al. 2005). The density and extent of housing is a strong predictor of atmospheric carbon emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels (MacKellar et al. 1995) and of the dec...

Understanding Human Well - being