Despite all odds, NHS staff are happy with their jobs

“ Happy Families Are All The Same ”

Happy Despite Pain

OBJECTIVES There is preliminary evidence for the efficacy of positive psychology interventions for pain management. The current study examined the effects of an internet-based positive psychology self-help program for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain and compared it with an internet-based cognitive-behavioral program. MATERIALS AND METHODS A randomized controlled trial was carried o...

Are Americans Really Less Happy With Their Incomes?

Recent economic research on international comparisons of subjective well-being suffers from several important biases due to the potential incomparability of response scales within and across countries. In this paper we concentrate on self-reported satisfaction with income in two countries: The Netherlands and the US. The comparability problem is addressed by using anchoring vignettes. We find t...

Australian orthopaedic surgeons are satisfied with their Jobs

Job satisfaction has recently featured in many journals and in the media, as our society grows more astute of the psychosocial well-being of health care professionals. Job satisfaction is a dynamic concept based on cognition and affect – two linked domains of the human psyche. It has been traditionally described as “a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s...

standing against all odds

I was born in a small town of Punjab, India. My father was in army. After a few years of retirement, he passed away. My mother is a house wife. I have 3 brothers and an elder sister. All of them are married. All of them are healthy and there is no congenital history of any kind of blindness. Since my childhood I didn't have any disease or severe illness. I studied in my home town and in 1990, g...