The ubiquity of references to happiness and wellbeing indicates widespread anxiety that all
may not be well, reflecting the erosion of the social in late capitalist modernity. The paper …

Action to address workforce functioning and productivity requires a broader approach than
the traditional scope of occupational safety and health. Focus on “well-being” may be one …

Relational wellbeing is an emergent construct grounded in the interpretivist tradition in
social science. It approaches people as subjects, and aims to understand the ways they see …

Abstract In her novel Regeneration (1998), Pat Barker presents the following reflection of the
neurologist and anthropologist WHR Rivers (1864–1922) on his fieldwork in the Solomon …

The pursuit of happiness has been an essential goal of individuals and countries throughout
history. In the past few years, researchers and academicians have developed a huge …

The past two decades have witnessed the dawning of a new age for the scientific study of
people's quality of life. For the first time in its history, both scholars from a variety of …

Studies on the association between religiosity, spirituality, and happiness in the Buddhist
context remain scarce despite the great number of followers of this religion around the world …

Happiness research is one of the most vivid and fruitful parts of modern economics. The
focus is on empirical findings. In contrast, theoretical work has been rather neglected. The …

The Hindu-derived meditation movement, The Art of Living (AOL), founded in 1981 by Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar in Bangalore, has grown into a global organization which claims presence in …

Work is all around us and permeates everything we do and everyday activities. Not all work
is justified, not all work is properly designed, or evaluated accurately, or integrated. A …