public participation in urban decision-making process is one of the main elements of a democratic system, which can help establish balance and harmony between different sections of the society. this paper mainly aims to study the effect of economic and social welfare on the degree of citizen participation in urban affairs. our main hypothesis emphasizes that there is a strong positive correlati...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association between health behavior indicators, school contentment, and academic achievement. METHODS Structural equation modeling with 5810 adolescents. RESULTS Our model explained 36% of the variance in academic achievement and 24% in school contentment. BMI and sedentary lifestyle were negatively related to school contentment and academic achievement, but physic...

The Great Recession has caused many Americans to reevaluate their consumption-rich way of life. In response to the shrinking economy, they have spent less, saved more, and simplified their lives. This essay asks whether people will seek a return to their prerecession lifestyles—in particular a return to making the acquisition and consumption of consumer goods a major source of meaning and conte...

A continuous variable changing between 0 and 1 is introduced to characterise contentment, or satisfaction with life, of an individual equation governing its evolution postulated from analysis several factors likely affect the contentment. As contentment strongly affected by material well-being, a similar formulated for wealth these two equations derived joint distribution individuals' within so...

Purpose: The objective of our research is to examine the effects job embeddedness on contentment experience, anti-mattering, and employee sustainable performance. study also tested impact experience anti-mattering outcome variable i.e., Theoretical framework: results this indicate that has a positive effect Contentment performance, but it negative mattering. Mattering Design/methodology/approac...

The broaden-and-build theory describes the form and function of a subset of positive emotions, including joy, interest, contentment and love. A key proposition is that these positive emotions broaden an individual’s momentary thought–action repertoire: joy sparks the urge to play, interest sparks the urge to explore, contentment sparks the urge to savour and integrate, and love sparks a recurri...