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Well-Being and Inequality [PDF]
, 2009 Well-being is a favourable state of life. It is something desirable for every human being in the world at all times, or, as Ng (1996, 1) puts it, it is “the main, if not only objective of life”. If a person were allowed to choose between two states of life, he or she would always choose the one which offers a higher degree of well-being.
Böhnke, Petra, Kohler, Ulrich
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Positive Psychology, Well-Being, and Mindfulness: A Successful Partnership Towards the Development of Meaningful Tourist Experiences [PDF]
Journal of Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being, 2022 Tourism is going through a very challenging phase due to the current pandemic situation. In this context, psychology and tourism are a successful partnership to develop meaningful experiences considering tourists’ needs, desires, and expectations.
Ester Câmara +3 more
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Swedish high-school pupils’ attitudes towards drugs in relation to drug usage, impulsiveness and other risk factors [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Background. Illicit drug use influences people’s lives and elicits unwanted behaviour. Current research shows that there is an increase in young people’s drug use in Sweden.
Fariba Mousavi +4 more
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Self-regulatory mode (locomotion and assessment), well-being (subjective and psychological), and exercise behavior (frequency and intensity) in relation to high school pupils’ academic achievement [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Background. Self-regulation is the procedure implemented by an individual striving to reach a goal and consists of two inter-related strategies: assessment and locomotion.
Danilo Garcia +5 more
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International Review of Economics, 2012 Happiness research has dealt with a great number of determinants of well-being but has neglected the effect of war. Wars drastically reduce people’s happiness. The large psychic costs of soldiers, the suffering of civilians, and the material destruction are well documented.
Bruno S. Frey, Bruno S. Frey
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BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 2023 Background Folk medicine is crucial to healthcare delivery in the underdeveloped countries. It is frequently used as a primary treatment option or as a complementary therapy for malaria.
Ikponmwosa Owen Evbuomwan +2 more
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Whole genome characterization of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W isolates, circulating in Moscow
Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2017 Introduction. The invasive meningococcal disease (meningitis and/or septicemia) is actual problem of public health in Russia. Neisseria meningitidis isolates are classified into serogroups, PorA/FetA VRs, sequence types and clonal complexes.
K. O. Mironov +2 more
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The prevalence of viral hepatitis D in the world
Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2022 Relevance According to many researchers, hepatitis D worsens the prognosis of hepatitis B in 80–90% of cases, accelerating fibrosis and leading to liver cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma. Aims. To present a review of data on prevalence of hepatitis D
V. G. Akimkin +5 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Background: Performance monitoring might have an adverse influence on call center agents’ well-being. We investigate how performance, over a six-month period, is related to agents’ perceptions of their learning climate, character strengths, well-being ...
Saleh eMoradi +9 more
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Professional Group Development Trainers’ Personality Characteristics and Affective Profiles
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Background: The Development of Groups and Leaders (UGL), provided by the Swedish National Defence College and mentored by UGL-trainers, is one of the most popular management programs among civilians in Sweden.
Max eRapp Ricciardi +12 more
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