“Well-Being as a Business Concept”

Mental well-being in the workplace: building the business case

The Role of Subjective Well-Being as an Organizing Concept for Community Indicators

One important objective of community indicator initiatives, often explicit in their title or mandate, is to assess overall well-being, life quality, or social progress. These concepts are increasingly becoming accountable to the evaluation survey respondents give when asked about how their life feels, overall. Such quantitative, subjective data are not directly useful for guiding policy, but st...

Mental health as eudaimonic well-being?

Many researches agree on the fact that mental health and mental illness are not categorical but rather continuous variables. It is very difficult to define the exact and precise point where health ceases and illness begins. In other words, the formal absence of mental illness is not necessarily an indicator of mental health. The definition of mental health according to the World Health Organisa...

Happiness as a Predictor of Psychological Well-Being of Male Athlete Students

Happiness is a concept which has become of high importance for the past years because of its role in psychological well-being and the social health of people. The present research has been conducted to study the role of happiness in predicting the psychological well-being of male athlete students. A number of 100 physically active students were chosen through multistep cluster sampling out of...

Being Well as Time Goes By: Future Time Perspective and Well-Being

The authors analyze data from the European Social Survey (ESS3, 2006) with the framework of Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST, Carstensen, Fung & Charles, 2003). In order to explore the extent to which future time perspective (FTP) is related to social goals, they test SST in a representative sample of adults from of 23 countries (43000 individual responses). The study also analyses the be...