Leisure, materialism, well-being and the environment

Cuing consumerism: situational materialism undermines personal and social well-being.

Correlational evidence indicates that materialistic individuals experience relatively low levels of well-being. Across four experiments, we found that situational cuing can also trigger materialistic mind-sets, with similarly negative personal and social consequences. Merely viewing desirable consumer goods resulted in increases in materialistic concerns and led to heightened negative affect an...

Manufacturing leisure Innovations in happiness , well - being

The work environment, stress and well-being.

BACKGROUND Much recent work extending the field of job characteristics to include positive aspects of work makes the implicit assumption that the absence of negative work characteristics is equivalent to the presence of positive work characteristics. AIMS To consider the effect sizes seen at different ends of job characteristic dimensions and to compare the impact of the presence and absence ...

Structured Leisure Activities in Middle Childhood: Links to Well-Being

Associations between children’s (N = 147) participation in structured leisure activities and their adjustment were examined. Caregivers provided lists of extracurricular activities (clubs, sports, and church activities) in which children participated. Children and caregivers participated in interviews and completed questionnaires designed to measure children’s adjustment in four domains (academ...

Environment , Well - Being , and Experienced Preference