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Greater Well-being (greater + well-being)
Selected AbstractsGeneral and Specific Traits of Personality and Their Relation to Sleep and Academic PerformanceJOURNAL OF PERSONALITY, Issue 2 2002Elizabeth K. Gray ABSTRACT Few studies have examined the links between personality variables and sleep and their combined effect on specific real-world outcomes. Participants in this study completed numerous personality, sleep, and performance measures; we examined the associations among these measures. Personality was assessed using the Five-Factor Model. The personality trait of Conscientiousness (especially its facet of Achievement Striving) was a substantial predictor of academic performance. Analyses of the sleep variables revealed three distinct constructs: quantity, quality, and schedule. Sleep quantity showed few interesting correlates. In contrast, sleep quality was associated with greater well-being and improved psychological functioning, whereas sleep schedule (i.e., average rising and retiring times) was significantly related to Conscientiousness, such that conscientious individuals maintain earlier schedules. [source] Romantic relationships and the physical and mental health of college studentsPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, Issue 1 2010SCOTT R. BRAITHWAITE This study tested the hypothesis that, analogous to married individuals, college students in committed romantic relationships experience greater well-being than single college students. In a sample of 1,621 college students, individuals in committed relationships experienced fewer mental health problems and were less likely to be overweight/obese. There were no significant differences between groups in frequency of physical health problems. Examination of 2 models suggested that being in a committed romantic relationship decreases problematic outcomes largely through a reduction in sexual partners, which in turn decreases both risky behaviors and problematic outcomes. These results are discussed in the context of how premarital dating relationships may contribute to understanding of the observed association between marriage and well-being. [source] Consumer Perceptions of Commodity Characteristics: Implications for Choice and Well-beingTHE MANCHESTER SCHOOL, Issue 5 2000Martin Currie Consumers base market choices on beliefs about the properties of commodities. Invoking Lancaster's characteristics approach, we explore the implications for consumer well-being of such beliefs being incorrect. Following an examination of the welfare cost of inaccurate beliefs, we address the question: do more accurate beliefs necessarily result in greater well-being? The impacts of changes in prices and income on well-being are then explored and some implications are drawn for the use of compensating variation. Finally, we contrast alternative perspectives on what constitutes the appropriate measurement of welfare where consumers' beliefs about what they are actually consuming are mistaken. [source] If One is Looking for Meaning in Life, Does it Help to Find Meaning in Work?APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY: HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, Issue 3 2009Michael F. Steger People experience well-being at both global (life) and domain (e.g. careers) levels, and presumably people experience meaning on both levels as well. Two studies assessed whether finding meaning on one level "satisfies" people's search for meaning at the other level. Study 1 assessed this question by analysing survey responses from 231 undergraduate students, finding a significant interaction such that people seeking global-level meaning in life reported greater well-being and self-efficacy in choosing a career if they experienced domain-level meaning in their careers. Study 2 used both calling-focused and traditional career workshops in an effort to experimentally induce a sense of domain-level meaning in careers in a sample of 91 undergraduate students. There was a trend for people seeking global-level meaning in life to report greater reductions in depressive symptoms and increased domain-level meaning in their careers following the workshops. Together these studies suggest that people seeking global-level meaning in life are, indeed, satisfied by experiencing meaning in their careers. We discuss these results in terms of how career and workplace interventions might be tailored according to how intently people are seeking meaning. [source] | ||||||||||