How Suburban Sprawl Shapes Human Well-Being

Understanding Human Well - being

How Does Selfishness Affect Well-Being?

Is selfishness always a bad thing, in the sense that people can only be better off when everyone is concerned with the well-being of others as well as with his own, or are there situations in which altruism can actually make things worse for all people involved? This paper tackles this question in the context of two-person symmetric games, which are modified by making the payoff of each player ...

Measuring the Environmental Consequences of Suburban Sprawl and Regional Migration

The Relationship between Health-Promoting Lifestyle and social well-being in Female Heads of Suburban Households of Karaj City

Background: Female-headed households are one of the most important, sensitive and vulnerable groups in society whose health status is important for facilitating and policy-making. The aim of this study was to determinate the relationship between health-promoting lifestyle and social well-being in female heads of suburban households of Karaj city. Materials and methods: Overall, 160 female-heade...

Does Globalization Affect Human Well-being?

The prevailing theorizing of globalization’s influence of human well-being suggests to assess both the favorable and unfavorable outcomes. This study formulates a dialectical model, adopts a comprehensive globalization measure and uses a three-wave panel data during 1980-2000 to empirically test direct and indirect effects of global flows’ human consequences. The outcomes from random effect mod...