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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Happiness Engineering: impact of hope-based intervention on life satisfaction, self-worth, mental health, and academic achievement of Indian school students

open access: yesCogent Education
This research article explores the impact of an intervention aimed at enhancing hope among senior secondary school students. The investigation was carried out in the Bokaro district of Jharkhand, India. The study focuses on the changes observed in scores
Ashraf Alam, Atasi Mohanty
doaj   +1 more source

The Economic Problem of Happiness. Keynes on Happiness and Economics [PDF]

open access: yes
In their latest book (2008), Bruno Frey and the members of the research group he chairs at the University of Zurich announce that happiness research is leading a revolution in economics.
Mario A. Cedrini, Anna M. Carabelli
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How Can Community Music Enhance Place‐Based Efforts to Create Greater Social Equity? Insights From an Australian Cultural Mapping Exercise

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social inequity is increasing in Australia, often manifesting in entrenched locational disadvantage that requires place‐based responses grounded in local strengths, knowledge and participation. While community music programmes have demonstrated a range of positive social outcomes, their potential contribution to place‐based efforts addressing ...
Brydie‐Leigh Bartleet   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The macroeconomics of happiness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We show that macroeconomic movements have strong effects on the happiness of nations. First, we find that there are clear microeconomic patterns in the psychological well-being levels of a quarter of a million randomly sampled Europeans and Americans ...
Di Tella, Rafael   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Advancing Understanding of Subjective Liveability for People With Disability

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern liveability frameworks aim to enhance health and well‐being through equity‐based measures across built, natural, social, and economic environments, yet they often overlook the perspectives of people with disability. This study explored expectations of liveable neighbourhoods among adults with diverse disability experiences in urban and ...
Maria Hobbs   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genes, Economics and Happiness [PDF]

open access: yes
A major finding from research into the sources of subjective well-being is that individuals exhibit a "baseline" level of happiness. We explore the influence of genetic variation by employing a twin design and genetic association study.
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve   +3 more
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Getting (un)wasted: How planning failures generate consumer waste across resources: Time, money, goods, and energy

open access: yesConsumer Psychology Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Past research suggests that people exhibit robust waste aversion. However, many consumers routinely feel that they waste not only goods but also time, money, energy, and emotion and would be hard‐pressed to imagine their lives otherwise. Why does consumer waste persist? In this paper, we first propose a definition for consumer waste.
Marissa A. Sharif, Cait Lamberton
wiley   +1 more source

The Woman Question in Western-occidental and Eastern-oriental Religious Traditions

open access: yesNsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies, 2023
This paper explores the “woman question” in Western-Occidental and Eastern-Oriental religious traditions, analysing the roles and status of women within these diverse religious contexts.
Lucy Happiness Ohanuma
doaj   +2 more sources

Semiotic labour signals and socio-technical stratification: a meta-synthesis of micro-credentials in digital credentialing ecosystems

open access: yesCogent Education
Micro-credentials have emerged as modular, digitally mediated attestations of discrete competencies, signalling a shift in lifelong learning, workforce skilling, and digital credentialing. Following PRISMA 2020 guidance, this systematic literature review
Ashraf Alam, Atasi Mohanty, Jyoti Kumari
doaj   +1 more source

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