World Happiness Report 2021!

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Programme – IEEE E-TEMS

SMART CITIES THROUGH PROJECTS: ACHIEVING QUALITY OF LIFE?

18-20 March

2021 IEEE EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT SUMMIT

DORTMUND UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS

#CITIESR4LIVING

Huge congrats to our #ISQOLSmembers, Talita Greyling & Stephanie Rossouw on the publication of their article in #PLOSONE: "The good, the bad and the ugly of lockdowns during Covid-19". #COVID19research #lockdowns

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The good, the bad and the ugly of lockdowns during Covid-19 (plos.org)

Announcing “Family Well-Being” section in Applied Research in Quality of Life (ARQOL)

 

As family well-being is closely related to quality of life, we are launching a section on “Family well-Being” in Applied Research in Quality of Life. Effective January 2021 the journal welcomes submissions on family well-being which are consistent with the aims and scope of ARQOL (https://www.springer.com/journal/11482). Please submit your article via the online submission and peer review system editorial manager today!

Journal of Happiness Studieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-020-00335-41 3RESEARCH PAPER

Modern Economic Growth, Culture, andSubjective Well‑Being: Evidence fromArctic Alaska

FengyuWu1,2 Accepted: 18 November 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020

Abstract

The life satisfaction of the indigenous population in Arctic Alaska is quite high, perhaps higher than that of the U.S. population in general. Is wage employment brought by modern economic growth responsible for their high life satisfaction? Probably not. Interestingly, we find that household wage income and job opportunities per working-age Native are neg-atively associated with their life satisfaction. In contrast, non-wage income, which does not involve the sacrifice of time that can be used for subsistence activities, is positively associated with life satisfaction. A household’s involvement in these traditional activities is found to be positively associated with life satisfaction as well. The findings challenge the common preconception about the effects of modernization and point to the importance of the non-wage subsistence activities as a preferred substitute for wage employment to this indigenous population. A combination of Christian religious beliefs and indigenous spir-itual beliefs is also positively associated with their life satisfaction.Keywords Subjective well-being· Life satisfaction· Economic growth· Subsistence activities· Culture· Indigenous populationJ

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Modern Economic Growth, Culture, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Arctic Alaska (springer.com)

Call for Papers! Special Issue: Humour, playfulness and entertainment in wellbeing.

Guest Editors

Tracey Platt, University of Sunderland, UK
Tracey.Platt@sunderland.ac.uk
Sonja Heintz, University of Plymouth, UK    
Sonja.Heintz@plymouth.ac.uk  

Research illuminates the nuanced roles of humour, laughter, playfulness and entertainment in wellbeing and health. Humour has a distinct physiological response, can be considered a character strength, a means of coping and emotional regulation, and has subtle variations in expression and outcomes across cultures and contexts, for both the individual and their social groups. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent upheaval of social systems and mass home isolation, there has been a surge in entertainment media consumption, including in new media such as memes.

Potential contributions

International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology is calling for manuscripts that share new knowledge on humour, laughter, playfulness and entertainment as it relates to well-being, quality of life, coping, and health. Studies of humour in relation to COVID-19 will be given priority, including the role of media consumption. The Special Issue welcomes empirical contributions, short reports, (theoretical) position papers, as well as reviews on these and other related topics from psychology and interdisciplinary collaborations.

Manuscript Submission

The review process will be similar to regular journal submissions where final decisions are based on peer review. Papers can be submitted via the online submisson portal, selecting the Special Issue SI - Humour, playfulness and entertainment in wellbeing, following the Submission Guidelines

Important Dates

January 31, 2021: Manuscript submission deadline
April 30, 2021: Final notifications to authors
September 2021: Expected publication date of the full special issue (after publication process, your article will be published Online First)

About the Guest Editors

Dr Tracey Platt is Principle Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Sunderland (UK). Her research focuses on humour, gelotophobia (the fear of being laughed at), laughter, and emotions. 

Dr Sonja Heintz is Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Plymouth (UK). Her main research interests are individual differences in humour and positive traits and psychometrics. She has published more than 30 articles and book chapters on the topics of humour and comic styles, the sense of humour, humour appreciation, wellbeing, and character strengths.

International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology | Call for papers! special issue: humour, playfulness and entertainment in wellbeing. (springer.com)

International Conference “Well-being 2021: knowledge for informed decisions”

Hotel Parc Bellevue, Luxembourg, 28 – 30 of June 2021

Organized by The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (STATEC) and the Ministry of the Economy, Luxembourg

This international conference will bring together leading scholars to discuss the quest for better lives. Economists traditionally advocated economic growth as the foremost policy goal, but now even economists often challenge this view. The discussion remains open, indeed flourishes, with more contributors than ever. How do we promote well-being? What are the best policies? What is the role for civil society? How can the happiness literature help facing the environmental, social and economic challenges ahead?

The conference will take place over three days from 28 – 30 of June 2021. We will host four keynote speakers and a roundtable discussing how policy-makers can integrate the findings from well-being studies.

Topics of the conference

This is an interdisciplinary conference welcoming contributions from every field of social sciences, such as economics, sociology, psychology, and political sciences. We especially welcome papers on the following topics:

·       Correlates and consequences of well-being and ill-being (e.g. personality, wealth, productivity, immigration, occupation, health);

·       Well-being over time;

·       Well-being inequality;

·       Inequality, social capital, and inclusive growth;

·       Well-being and the changing environment;

·       Public or private interventions for well-being and their evaluations;

·       Future directions in well-being research;

·       Well-being and ill-being metrics (e.g. single indicators vs. dashboards; micro vs. macro);

·       The impact of Covid-19 on well-being and its correlates;

·       Big data and well-being.

Key-note speakers

The four key-note speakers are: prof. Stefano Bartolini, University of Siena; Mr. John De Graaf, an American author, journalist and film-maker; prof. Carol Graham, Brookings Institution and University of Maryland; and prof. Andrew Oswald, University of Warwick.

Round table

On Tuesday morning the conference will host a round table on “Policy meets research” where representatives of institutions will discuss advantages, disadvantages and limitations of the well-being approach in policy making.

Paper submission and deadlines

To apply, please, submit an abstract complete with name of the author/s and a title to: submitSWB2020@statec.etat.lu. Extended abstracts and full manuscripts are welcome.

The deadline for application is the 15 January 2021. We will notify the authors of accepted papers by the end of March 2021.

For more information, please, visit our conference web-site (www.wellbeing2021.lu) or send an e-mail to: infoSWB2020@statec.etat.lu

We look forward to welcoming you in Luxembourg,

The scientific committee:

Serge Allegrezza, STATEC

Martijn Burger, Erasmus University of Rotterdam

Conchita d’Ambrosio, University of Luxembourg

Johannes Hirata, Osnabruck University

Kelsey O’Connor, STATEC

Chiara Peroni, STATEC

Maurizio Pugno, University of Cassino

Stephanie Rossouw, Auckland University of Technology

Francesco Sarracino, STATEC

Details:

We are excited to share with you that we have an invitation to tender for a brilliant researcher - or research team - for a new project: Understanding and modelling the relationship between individual and place-based community wellbeing, jointly commissioned by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, Centre for Ageing Better and Spirit of 2012.

The research will focus on:

• What is the relationship between community wellbeing and the wellbeing of different individuals and identified groups within that community (place)?
• How can this relationship be modelled quantitatively using measures of community, individual wellbeing and measures for the quantity and quality of relationships and sense of belonging to a place?
• What are the barriers and enablers (context and social infrastructure) to achieving a virtuous circle of positive outcomes for individuals and communities and addressing any trade-offs or risks of negative outcomes for different individuals/groups?  

Please help us find the right researcher(s).

The link to the tender is here: https://whatworkswellbeing.org/about-us/work-for-us/

Please send your proposal with the subject line Submission for tender Community and Individual Wellbeing to: deborah.hardoon@whatworkswellbeing.org  no later than 5pm 6 November.

Dear ISQOLS Community:

After celebrating my 85^th birthday last August and continuing my struggle with a variety of health problems, it occurred to me that I should begin downsizing my quality-of-life library. The biggest chunk of it is about 150 volumes (over 600 issues) of Social Indicators Research, currently running from May 1974, Volume 1, Number 1 to  November 2020, Volume 152, Number 2. I founded it and served as editor for 40 years.

   I understand that most libraries avoid hard copy journals in favour of digitized versions, but there may be an institution or individual with a special interest in having the world’s first scholarly documents developing our field. There are, of course, additional documents concerning various transactions between the journal’s editor and many other stakeholders, but these require more organizing and editing than copies of the journal itself.

   Volumes and issues of the journal are carefully boxed and I would ship them to their new owner in exchange for a tax receipt acceptable to

Revenue Canada plus the shipping costs for the collection.

   Anyone with questions or an interest in obtaining these copies of Social Indicators Research can contact me at Michalos@brandonu.ca .

 

  Sincerely,

     Alex C. Michalos

The Economics of Happiness

How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed Our Understanding of Well-Being and Progress

Editors: Rojas, Mariano (Ed.)

• Provides an overview of Richard Easterlin’s groundbreaking work on happiness and economics, widely known as the Easterlin Paradox

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