Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and to manage the relationship between emotion, cognition and behavior. It was hypothesized that levels of emotional intelligence are associated with levels of income. Few studies have examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and academic success among low income college students. The purpose of this correlational and comparati...

We use the method of deficit accumulation to describe prevalent and incident levels of frailty in community-dwelling older persons and compare prevalence rates in higher income countries in Europe, to prevalence rates in six lower income countries. Two multi-country data collection efforts, SHARE and SAGE, provide nationally representative samples of adults aged 50 years and older. Forty items ...

Whether relative income or absolute income could affect subjective well-being has been a bone of contention for years. Life satisfaction and the relative frequency of positive and negative emotions are parts of subjective well-being. According to the prospect theory, hedonic adaptation helps to explain why positive emotion is often so hard to be maintained, and negative emotion wouldn't be easy...

T he environmental issues have received a lot of attention in recent years. Since environmental pollution is one of the issues that may damage the ability of future generations, it is important to examine the determinants of the environment quality. The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of urban and rural income inequality on natural gas consumption in Iran. To this...

BACKGROUND Evidence from developing countries is limited on how income level for a given neighborhood is related to physical activity among its residents. PURPOSE The goal of the study was to examine the association between walkability and physical activity outcomes, and the effect of income on the relationship between walkability and physical activity in adults. METHODS The Spaces for Phys...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between employees’ income level and employees’ job satisfaction. For this purpose, an empirical study was conducted in a British company. The results of the empirical study show that there is a significant relationship between employees’ income level and employees’ job satisfaction. Although the study found the possibility that job satisf...

Socio-economic status is a major indicator of livelihood and the two crucial factors determining livelihood are poverty and income inequality. The present study assessed the livelihood status of fishermen operating fibre re-inforced plastic (FRP) boats (motorised) of 9-10 m LOA. Socio-economic status, including poverty and income inequality of fishermen, comprising both owners (FRPO) and labour...

This paper analyses how neighbors’ income affect agents’ well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and street-levels and find that the association between well-being and neighbors’ income follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in the size of the area. We find a negative relationship between well-being a...