Happiness and Satisfaction with Work Commute

Happiness and Satisfaction with Work Commute

Research suggests that for many people happiness is being able to make the routines of everyday life work, such that positive feelings dominate over negative feelings resulting from daily hassles. In line with this, a survey of work commuters in the three largest urban areas of Sweden show that satisfaction with the work commute contributes to overall happiness. It is also found that feelings d...

Satisfaction and Happiness

The structure of this paper is as follows. There is a review of some of the anomalies that have been encountered by social indicators researchers section “Anomalies as Prods to Research”, and an overview of studies exploring various explanatory hypotheses of the anomalies section “Overview of Previous Research”. Plausible next steps are considered in the fourth section “Next Steps”. Beginning w...

Happiness and Work

Happiness at Work

Happiness at work.

Being happy at work is a fundamental element of a person’s life satisfaction. Because work is an integral part of a person’s identity, the professional role that one assumes is frequently the means by which a person feels the most valued and derives their selfesteem. (1) Within the profession of nursing, there is a positive correlation between career satisfaction, self nurturance, and life sati...