well-being

And isn't this the generation who say they're concerned about their health and the well-being of the planet?

I offer a simple proposition in response: Many of our problems—class attendance, educational success, student happiness and well-being—might be improved by cutting down the bureaucratic mechanisms and meetings and instead hiring an army of good teachers.

Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities.

Shouldn't preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability?

within six months to a year, people are back to their original baseline levels of well-being.

"The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world," read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to t

1 million young people answered various questions related to their well-being.

A similar but reversed pattern was found for the activities associated with greater well-being.

And in a second analysis, they found that where technology went, dips in well-being followed.

But the next question is, are the drops in average well-being happening at the same time as trends toward increased electronic device usage?

Contrary to popular belief, doing homework might add to students’ well-being.

Data reveals that economic inequality rather than family income might affect people's well-being.

first, they explain that if a given variable is playing a role in affecting well-being, then we should expect any change in that variable to correlate with the observed changes in well-being.

For example, years when people spent more time with friends were better years for well-being and followed by better years.

For instance, years with a larger increase in online usage were followed by years with lower well-being, rather than the other way around.

I suspect that some experts in the field will be keen to address alternative explanations, such as unassessed variables playing a role in the well-being decline.

In addition, more TV watching and more electronic communication both correlated with lower well-being.

In response to past critics, Twenge and her co-researchers stress they are not trying to prove that the use of digital devices reduces young people's well-being.

It is the means to intervene more wisely, and more effectively in the real world, to improve the well-being, not only of yourself—important as that may be—but of people around you and of other species with whom we share the planet.

Its primary mission is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic needs of all people, with the particular focus on those who are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty.

Less sport, and fewer meetings with peers correlated with lower well-being, as did less time reading print media newspapers and, surprisingly, less time doing homework.

Now a new study has provided another contribution to the debate, uncovering strong evidence that adolescent well-being in the United States really is experiencing a decline and arguing that the most likely cause is the electronic riches we have given them

Scores in various well-being measures began to go downward among young Americans in recent years.

So the researchers looked at time spent in a number of activities that could plausibly be driving the well-being decline.

The author believes the researchers’ new study has gone a step further regarding the impact of screen time on well-being.

The background to this is that from the 1960s into the early 2000s, measures of average well-being went up in the US.

The data was slightly complicated by the fact that there was a tendency for kids who were social in the real world to also use more online communication, but by bracketing out different cases it became clear that the real-world sociality component correla

The dataset they used did not include economic data, so instead the researchers looked at whether the 2013-16 well-being decline was tracking economic indicators.

The researchers also note the recession hit some years before we see the beginning of the well-being drop, and before the steepest well-being decline, which occurred in 2013.

The researchers conclude that electronic communication was the only adolescent activity that increased at the same time psychological well-being declined.

Their well-being was even higher than those who never used such devices.

They found some evidence that some crude measures, like income inequality, correlated with changes in well-being, but economic measures with a more direct impact, like family income and unemployment rates which put families into difficulties, had no relat

They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices—a couple of hours a week—had the highest well-being.

To address skyrocketing employee stress levels, many companies have implemented workplace wellness programs, partnering with health care providers that have created programs to promote employee health and well-being.

Twenge and her colleagues also found that across the key years of 2013-16, well-being was indeed lowest in years where adolescents spent more time online, on social media, and reading news online, and when more youth in the United States had smartphones.

Twenge and her colleagues wanted to understand why this change in average well-being occurred.

Twenge's team's analysis of the answers confirmed the earlier, well-established well-being climb, with scores rising across the 1990s, and into the later 2000s.

Unfortunately, activities involving direct contact with people, which contributed to better well-being were found to be on the decline.

A recent annual study of countries and their ability to convert growth into well-being sheds some light on that question.

But policymakers who refocus efforts on improving well-being rather than simply worrying about GDP figures could avoid the forecasted doom and may even see progress.

Instead, being grateful for small things every day is a much better way to improve well-being.

Instead, they look after their well-being instinctively, and usually more effectively than we do as grownups. Perhaps it's time to learn a few lessons from them.

It does not include important factors such as environmental quality or education outcomes一all things that contribute to a person's sense of well-being.

The sharp hit to growth predicted around the world and in the UK could lead to a decline in the everyday services we depend on for our well-being and for growth.

The decision to stop weighing myself every day has done wonders for my overall health, fitness and well-being.