Crafting health, well-being and happiness

Happiness and Health: well-being among self- employed

During the last years researchers have shown an increasing interest in differences between the selfemployed and employees regarding how they feel about work. A persistent result is that self-employed are more satisfied with their jobs than wage-earners are. This paper extends the comparison between the well-being of self-employed and wage-earners to also incorporate mental health problems, phys...

Manufacturing leisure Innovations in happiness , well - being

Migrants, health, and happiness: Evidence that health assessments travel with migrants and predict well-being.

Health assessments correlate with health outcomes and subjective well-being. Immigrants offer an opportunity to study persistent social influences on health where the social conditions are not endogenous to individual outcomes. This approach provides a clear direction of causality from social conditions to health, and in a second stage to well-being. Natives and immigrants from across the world...

Redesigning Money to Serve Economies of Well-being and Happiness

I believe the greatest threat to the pursuit of genuine happiness and well-being is our current debt-money system. In the face of an international debt-crisis, it is remarkable that there is no serious discussion about the nature of money, or about how and who creates our money. While meaningful conversations about alternative measures of progress (e.g. Gross National Happiness, Genuine Progres...

The Dark Triad, happiness and subjective well-being

Narcissism can be expressed in grandiose or vulnerable forms. We examined whether positive psychological states (defined by the Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI) and the Diener Satisfaction With Life (SWL) scales) assisted differentiation relative to general personality traits and the ‘‘the Dark Triad’’ (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism, measured by the D12 and Short Dark Triad (SD3...