Abstract Introduced in the United Kingdom 2012, Universal Credit (UC) is a welfare benefit that replaces six working-age ‘legacy’ benefits for out-of-work and low-income people. Designed with aim of simplifying incentivising paid work, UC represents deepening conditionality British state. Considering these developments, this paper quantitatively investigates effect on recipients’ life satisfact...

This study provides a comprehensive sociological exploration of happiness among older adults in Pakistan, drawing on diverse array socio-cultural factors. Utilizing mixed-method approach that combines in-depth interviews and thematic analysis, the research investigates multifaceted dimensions happiness, with particular emphasis satisfaction meeting physiological demands, generational shift from...

The present hypotheses were guided by four premises, which were systematically examined in six studies involving 409 undergraduate participants. The first premise, established by prior work, is that trait neuroticism is closely associated with avoidance-related goals. The second premise, however, is that neuroticism may be uncorrelated with cognitive tendencies to recognize threats as they occu...

This study aimed to examine the relations between character strengths and dispositional positive emotions (i.e. joy, contentment, pride, love, compassion, amusement, and awe). A sample of 574 German-speaking adults filled in the Dispositional Positive Emotion Scales (DPES; Shiota, Keltner, & John, 2006), and the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS; Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2005)....

The issue of worker satisfaction is important both for the sake of individuals themselves and also for employers for whom happy staff should be productive staff. Highly satisfied staff have been shown to have lower propensities to quit and to be absent. Whilst there have been some interesting contributions in this field, the existing studies are weakened by their inability to control for workpl...

Many approaches for process variant management employ a reference model for deriving a target variant either using configuration or adaptation mechanisms. What is missing at this stage is an empirical insight into their relative strengths and weaknesses. Our paper addresses this gap. We selected C-YAWL and vBPMN for a comparative, empirical user study. Both approaches center on a reference proc...

OBJECTIVES Bipolar disorder is associated with positive emotion disturbance, though it is less clear which specific positive emotions are affected. METHODS The present study examined differences among distinct positive emotions in recovered bipolar disorder (BD) patients (n = 55) and nonclinical controls (NC) (n = 32) and whether they prospectively predicted symptom severity in patients with ...

This research is aimed at analyzing the effect of both service quality and customer value towards customers’ contentment Celebrity Fitness Margo City. The customers who are members City chosen as object this research. There were 75 respondents by employing a quantitative descriptive method, thus, size determined through incidental sampling technique due to certain considerations. data was colle...