基于幸福干预观点的校友工作H_2O路径

研究结合积极心理学、管理学理论和问卷调查数据,从幸福干预角度剖析了校友工作,提炼出做好校友工作的H2O("幸福"、"帮助"和"一"三词英语组合缩写)路径,以增进校友幸福(Happiness)为工作目标,设计了帮助(Help)校友提高幸福感的措施,并阐述了其中应遵循的一(One)字原则,为改善校友工作提出建议。     

闲暇如何影响经济增长?——幸福感与经济效率关系的理论研究与仿真模拟

文章以闲暇促进效用(幸福感)的提升为线索,以闲暇对经济效率的积极作用为基础,构建内生增长模型展开分析。结果显示,长期增长率由闲暇的跨期替代弹性和边际效率增长率决定。前者表征闲暇对生产是替代的还是互补的,后者代表闲暇对效率的动态作用。文章还对此结论做了数值仿真,结果显示,当闲暇对效率的作用为负时,如果其他条件不变,经济最终收敛或出现衰退。文章最后在对不同情形下闲暇对内生增长的作用进行总结和分析的基础上,提出努力推动国民的闲暇活动具有积极健康的内涵,有利于提高经济效率和幸福感,进而促进经济的持续增长。     

关注农村空巢老人—基于湖北省21个村200份问卷的分析

基于湖北省21个村庄的200份问卷,对该省空巢老人的经济收入、健康医疗、养老需求、生活幸福感等方面进行了深入的分析。分析表明：空巢老人的收入水平低,生活负担重;多数老人的健康状况令人担忧;六成以上的老人对养老持悲观心态,且养老观念在转变,＂依靠社会养老＂成为最被认可的养老模式。对此,应该在农村完善各项政策和服务,使农村空巢老人真正得到＂老有所养＂、＂老有所医＂。     

地区幸福感能提高企业的投资水平吗？——基于我国上市公司的经验证据

幸福感是一种综合性社会资本,会对经济主体的决策和行为产生积极影响。采用我国A股上市公司数据的实证分析表明：地区幸福感对企业投资具有显著的促进作用,地区幸福感水平越高则该地区企业的投资水平越高;与民营企业相比,地区幸福感对国有企业投资的促进作用更明显;地区幸福感对民营企业投资的正向影响随市场化程度的提高而减弱,但这一负向调节作用在国有企业中并不明显。因此,各级政府应该积极提高居民的幸福感水平,进而有效促进地区经济高质量发展。     

中国居民家庭收入流动性结构与影响因素研究——加入心理因素的城乡比较分析

收入流动将对收入分配格局产生重要影响,良好的收入流动性结构有利于缩小收入差距、优化收入格局。基于2010—2016年中国家庭追踪调查数据的分析表明,在2010—2012年、2012—2014年和2014—2016年三个时间段,整体样本、农村样本和城市样本家庭收入流动的向上/向下比率均大于1,表明当前中国居民家庭收入流动性结构合理,有利于收入分配格局优化;虽然低收入层级向上流动的几率较大,但高收入层级（尤其是城市地区）固化的现象也较为显著;长期来看,居民受教育水平和幸福感的提高有助于防范家庭收入层级向下流动。因此,应进一步提高教育质量,并切实增强人民群众的幸福感。     

Does past unemployment experience explain the transition happiness gap?

The profound economic and political changes of the 1990s had detrimental social effects in many domains of life in post-socialist countries, including diminishing life expectancy and growing unhappiness. Despite economic improvements in the second decade of transition, research has documented that happiness lagged behind. We test whether past unemployment experience can explain this “transition happiness gap in the context of Ukraine”, a country with a painful delayed transition from planned to market economy. We analyze unique longitudinal data for the period 2003–2012. Current unemployment substantially reduces subjective wellbeing, and the effect is roughly 50% larger for men than for women. The effect of past unemployment is significant, but small in magnitude compared to the effect of current unemployment. However, it does correspond to around 8% of the ‘’transition happiness gap” found by Guriev and Melnikov (2017), suggesting that past unemployment experience can be considered as a partial explanation.     

Losing children and mental well-being: evidence from China

This article explores the impact of losing a child, especially losing all children (including losing the only child), on the mental health, happiness and loneliness of parents. The Chinese government has implemented strict restrictions on the number of births for each family since the 1970s, resulting in the creation of millions of only-child families. Using the 2011 baseline data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, we find that the bereavement of a child is associated with lower levels of mental health and happiness and higher levels of loneliness for the parents, even after we adjust for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. The effects are significantly stronger for losing all the children. Results have strong implications for the population-control, elderly-care and mental-care policies especially in China and developing countries, where the social security system is not yet sound.     

Human capital and life satisfaction in economic transition

This study explores the life satisfaction of Egyptians – with a particular focus on the impact of higher education on happiness – both before and after that country's Arab Spring of 2011. Ordered logit results point to positive and significant relationships between life satisfaction and both perceived high incomes and the human capital variable, good health, for the pre- and post-Arab Spring periods in Egypt, thus confirming prior studies of transition economies. For a second human capital variable – secondary education – the results indicate a positive and significant relationship with happiness in pre-Arab Spring Egypt, while that relationship for post-Arab Spring Egypt is negative and significant. This particular finding is probably the result of the failure of educated Egyptians to achieve a better life despite their investments in human capital – due to the lack of opportunity that accompanied the failure of the country's Arab Spring to change the political and social environment.     

The silver linings of lottery play: motivation and subjective well-being of British lottery participants

Although certain researchers have attributed widespread lottery play to irrational beliefs that people hold regarding the chances of winning the lottery, another explanation for the popularity of lottery gambling is that lottery players may experience positive emotions before the draw. Therefore, in this study, we examine the relationship between lottery participation and happiness. Using data from the British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010 and utilizing propensity score matching methods, we find a small positive effect of lottery participation on happiness for individuals who engage in lottery play for recreational purposes.     

An appraisal framework of the determinants and consequences of brand happiness

Recent academic discussions about the concept of brand happiness have introduced brand happiness as a promising new branding asset and a key research area. There is scientific evidence that its strong desirability, its characteristic of greatest emotional fulfillment, and its superior power to influence brand behavior qualify brand happiness as an important brand goal and differentiate it from other emotional‐relational concepts (e.g., emotional brand attachment, customer delight). However, there is no evidence on the effectiveness of brand happiness. To provide essential new insights in this research field, the authors theoretically develop an appraisal framework of the determinants and consequences of brand happiness and empirically verify it in four industry sectors. On the cross‐industry level, brand relationship quality, brand self‐relevance, brand goal‐congruence, and actual and ideal brand self‐congruence are confirmed to be important brand appraisal determinants of brand happiness, and pleasantness, fairness, and certainty are confirmed to be important situational appraisal determinants of brand happiness. The behavioral power of brand happiness was supported by showing that brand happiness strongly predicts five coping strategies; namely, the problem‐focused coping strategies of (re‐)purchase intention and price premium, and the emotion‐focused coping strategies of word‐of‐mouth, brand evangelism, and brand forgiveness. On an industry‐specific level, differences are observed regarding the influence of some of the brand appraisal determinants on brand happiness and regarding the influence of some of the situational appraisal determinants on brand happiness across the four analyzed industry sectors.