Fact or fable: Increased wellbeing in voluntary simplicity

Rich, Stacey; Hanna, Sharon; Wright, Bradley J.; Bennett, Pauleen

doi:10.5502/ijw.v7i2.589

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“…The words ‘less’ and ‘reduce’ were evident throughout the data in relation to key terms such as ‘overtime’ and ‘on‐call’ and ‘nights’ and ‘extras’. These words are consistent with the concept of simplicity and simplifying your life, which is an area gaining more attention in the literature in relation to personal well‐being (Rich et al, , ). Most of the personal workplace well‐being strengtheners were also actual, rather than potential, strengtheners.…”

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Strengthening workplace well‐being: perceptions of intensive care nurses

Jarden

Sandham

Siegert

et al. 2018

Nursing in Critical Care

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Background: Intensive care nursing is a professionally challenging role, elucidated in the body of research focusing on nurses' ill-being, including burnout, stress, moral distress and compassion fatigue. Although scant, research is growing in relation to the elements contributing to critical care nurses' workplace well-being. Little is currently known about how intensive care nurse well-being is strengthened in the workplace, particularly from the intensive care nurse perspective. Aims and objectives: Identify intensive care nurses' perspectives of strategies that strengthen their workplace well-being. Design: An inductive descriptive qualitative approach was used to explore intensive care nurses' perspectives of strengthening work well-being. Method: New Zealand intensive care nurses were asked to report strategies strengthening their workplace well-being in two free-text response items within a larger online survey of well-being. Findings: Sixty-five intensive care nurses identified 69 unique strengtheners of workplace well-being. Strengtheners included nurses drawing from personal resources, such as mindfulness and yoga. Both relational and organizational systems' strengtheners were also evident, including peer supervision, formal debriefing and working as a team to support each other. Conclusions: Strengtheners of intensive care nurses' workplace well-being extended across individual, relational and organizational resources. Actions such as simplifying their lives, giving and receiving team support and accessing employee assistance programmes were just a few of the intensive care nurses' identified strengtheners. These findings inform future strategic workplace well-being programmes, creating opportunities for positive change. Relevance to clinical practice: Intensive care nurses have a highly developed understanding of workplace well-being strengtheners. These strengtheners extend from the personal to inter-professional to organizational. The extensive range of strengtheners the nurses have identified provides a rich source for the development of future workplace well-being programmes for critical care.

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confidence: 72%

Strengthening workplace well‐being: perceptions of intensive care nurses

Jarden

Sandham

Siegert

et al. 2018

Nursing in Critical Care

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“…Our findings provide valuable insights to consumer policymakers who are attempting to counteract a pandemic‐induced decline in sustainable consumption consciousness by instituting appropriate measures. Bearing in mind the need for wide‐scale adoption of sustainable consumption patterns worldwide for the environment and climate (note the UN Sustainable Development Goal 12) as well as for the well‐being of individuals and future generations (e.g., Balderjahn et al, 2020; Rich et al, 2017; Xiao & Li, 2011), insights into the consequences of the COVID‐19 pandemic on sustainable consumer behavior are highly relevant.…”

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The coronavirus pandemic: A window of opportunity for sustainable consumption or a time of turning away?

Balderjahn

2021

Journal of Consumer Affairs

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As a means to preserve present and future generations' living conditions, sustainable consumption presents a route to the enhanced well-being of individuals. However, the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic raises the question of whether society is going to continue down a path of increased awareness of sustainable consumption or whether the pandemic will move people to focus more on themselves. Based on data gathered before and near the end of the first pandemic lockdown in Germany in spring 2020, this research demonstrates that ecological, social, and voluntary simplicity consciousness deteriorated in the minds of sustainability-conscious consumers, with notable impacts on their willingness to spend sustainably and their shopping affinity. Furthermore, we identify segments that show particular vulnerability to the lockdown by reacting with a decrease in their ecological consumption consciousness. This study concludes with a discussion of the pandemic's implications for the spread of sustainable consumption styles and human well-being.

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“…Proponents of minimalism suggest the lifestyle leads to "happiness, fulfilment, and freedom" (Fields Milburn and Nicodemus n.d.), however, these claims have not been scientifically validated. Furthermore, studies examining lowconsumption lifestyles and wellbeing are scarce, with few studies providing a meaningful link between them (Rich et al 2017b).…”

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Towards a Theory of Minimalism and Wellbeing

Lloyd

Pennington

2020

Int J Appl Posit Psychol

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Minimalism is an increasingly popular low-consumption lifestyle whereby people deliberately live with fewer possessions. Proponents of minimalism claim the lifestyle offers a myriad of wellbeing benefits, including happiness, life satisfaction, meaning, and improved personal relationships, however, to date there has been no scientific study examining these claims. The current study aims to take a step towards rectifying this, by exploring the experiences of people living a minimalistic lifestyle. Ten people who identify as minimalists participated in semi-structured interviews to discuss their experience of minimalism and wellbeing. The data was collected and analysed using grounded theory methods. All participants reported that minimalism provided various wellbeing benefits. Five key themes were identified in the study: autonomy, competence, mental space, awareness, and positive emotions. Findings align with previous research examining voluntary simplicity, pro-ecological behaviours, and materialism, and offer new insights into the benefits of low-consumption lifestyles. The results have multidisciplinary implications, from positive psychology to education, business, marketing, economics, conservation and sustainability, with the potential to impact future research, policy, and practice.

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Fact or fable: Increased wellbeing in voluntary simplicity

Cited by 14 publications

References 28 publications

Strengthening workplace well‐being: perceptions of intensive care nurses

Strengthening workplace well‐being: perceptions of intensive care nurses

The coronavirus pandemic: A window of opportunity for sustainable consumption or a time of turning away?

Towards a Theory of Minimalism and Wellbeing

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