News tagged with life satisfaction
Are you a happy shopper? Research website helps you find out
Psychologists have found that buying life experiences makes people happier than buying possessions, but who spends more of their spare cash on experiences? New findings published this week in the Journal of ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Aquatic therapy soon after total knee arthroplasty improves outcomes
Despite increased use of total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA), there is a notable lack of consensus about optimal postoperative treatment. Aquatic therapy has been shown to have a beneficial effect, ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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The Generation X Report: Survey paints a surprisingly positive portrait
They've been stereotyped as a bunch of insecure, angst-ridden, underachievers. But most members of Generation X are leading active, balanced and happy lives, according to a long-term University of Michigan survey.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 25, 2011 |
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What defines life satisfaction for consumers living in poverty?
People whose basic needs are met get more life satisfaction when they are more connected to others and when they experience greater autonomy, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. But those who li ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 21, 2011 |
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A sensible, balanced amount of free time is key to happiness in our consumer society
What is more desirable: too little or too much spare time on your hands? To be happy, somewhere in the middle, according to Chris Manolis and James Roberts from Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH and Baylor University in ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Volunteering to help others could lead to better health
People who volunteer may live longer than those who don't, as long as their reasons for volunteering are to help others rather than themselves, suggests new research published by the American Psychological Association.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Middle-aged mothers and fathers only as happy as their least happy grown child, research shows
(Medical Xpress) -- Despite the fact that middle-aged parents are no longer responsible for their grown children, the parents' emotional well-being and life satisfaction remain linked to those children's successes and problems ...
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Aug 24, 2011 |
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Some families have taken steps to avoid feeling overwhelmed by communications technologies, study shows
An international study, led by Anna Mieczakowski, Tanya Goldhaber and Professor John Clarkson at the Engineering Design Centre (EDC) here at the Department of Engineering, has found that one in three people in the UK has ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Narcissism may benefit the young, researchers report; but older adults? Not so much
We all know one, or think we do: the person whose self-regard seems out of proportion to his or her actual merits. Popular culture labels these folks "narcissists," almost always a derogatory term. But a new ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Many top US scientists wish they had more children
Nearly half of all women scientists and one-quarter of male scientists at the nation's top research universities said their career has kept them from having as many children as they had wanted, according to a new study by ...
Aug 08, 2011 |
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Satisfaction with the components of everyday life appears protective against heart disease
While depression and anxiety have long been recognised as risk factors for heart disease, there is less certainty over the beneficial effects of a 'positive' psychological state, Now, following a study of almost 8000 British ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Researchers look for ingredients of happiness around the world
In 1943, American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed that all humans seek to fulfill a hierarchy of needs, which he represented with a pyramid. The pyramid's base, which he believed must come first, signified ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Religion benefits traumatic brain injury victims, research finds
Brigid Waldron-Perrine, Ph.D., a recent graduate from Wayne State University, and her mentor, Lisa J. Rapport, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Wayne State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, found that if ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 28, 2011 |
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For happiness, remember the good times, forget the regrets
(Medical Xpress) -- People who look at the past through rose-tinted glasses are happier than those who focus on regrets about the past, according to new research conducted by Assistant Professor of Psychology ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 22, 2011 |
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Money can't buy happiness
Freedom and personal autonomy are more important to people's well-being than money, according to a meta-analysis of data from 63 countries published by the American Psychological Association.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 14, 2011 |
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