The relationships between leisure and happiness

Robertson, R. W.

doi:10.1080/16078055.2016.1225880

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“…MD simulations in combination with thermodynamic measurements were applied to study the interaction of serotonin with DPPC and DOPC bilayers . Serotonin is a monoamine neurotransmitter, which is commonly considered to be a significant contributor to the feeling of happiness. , Peters et al demonstrated through MD simulations and thermodynamic measurements that serotonin interacted strongly with DPPC and DOPC bilayers, which is highly unusual for a hydrophilic solute like serotonin (the oil–water partitioning coefficient for serotonin is well below one). The authors hypothesized that this behavior stems from specific neurotransmitter–lipid interactions.…”

Section: How Lipids Influence Membrane Protein Activation and Function?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Multiscale Simulations of Biological Membranes: The Challenge To Understand Biological Phenomena in a Living Substance

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Biological membranes are tricky to investigate. They are complex in terms of molecular composition and structure, functional over a wide range of time scales, and characterized by nonequilibrium conditions. Because of all of these features, simulations are a great technique to study biomembrane behavior. A significant part of the functional processes in biological membranes takes place at the molecular level; thus computer simulations are the method of choice to explore how their properties emerge from specific molecular features and how the interplay among the numerous molecules gives rise to function over spatial and time scales larger than the molecular ones. In this review, we focus on this broad theme. We discuss the current state-of-the-art of biomembrane simulations that, until now, have largely focused on a rather narrow picture of the complexity of the membranes. Given this, we also discuss the challenges that we should unravel in the foreseeable future. Numerous features such as the actin-cytoskeleton network, the glycocalyx network, and nonequilibrium transport under ATP-driven conditions have so far received very little attention; however, the potential of simulations to solve them would be exceptionally high. A major milestone for this research would be that one day we could say that computer simulations genuinely research biological membranes, not just lipid bilayers.

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Section: How Lipids Influence Membrane Protein Activation and Function?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Multiscale Simulations of Biological Membranes: The Challenge To Understand Biological Phenomena in a Living Substance

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“…Making consumers happy and driving consumer happiness remain important strategic actions for marketers (Kumar et al, 2021); since happy consumers show pro-brand behaviour such as evangelism (Mansoor and Paul, 2022), loyalty (Chatzopoulou et al, 2022), and brand love (Sarkar et al, 2023). Leisurely activities (Robertson, 2016), consumption activities that allow consumers to carve their identities, and those that provide freedom from everyday stress or worries (Gaston-Breton et al, 2020) drive consumer happiness. Similarly, consumers' psychological ownership of products promotes their happiness (Li and Atkinson, 2020).…”

Section: Brand Happinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…, 2023). Leisurely activities (Robertson, 2016), consumption activities that allow consumers to carve their identities, and those that provide freedom from everyday stress or worries (Gaston-Breton et al. , 2020) drive consumer happiness.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of online retail website experience on brand happiness and willingness to share personal information: an SOR perspective

Banerjee,

Shaikh,

Sharma

2024

MIP

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PurposeThe study aims to determine the role of online retail website experience on brand happiness and willingness to share personal information using the theoretical lens of the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) framework. Further, it explores the role of brand intimacy and brand partner quality in mediating the path between brand happiness and willingness to share personal information.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a cross-sectional survey design to collect data from 439 online retail consumers in India, using an online questionnaire. The data were analysed using Structural Equation Modelling in IBM Amos.FindingsThe present study found that online retail website experience is significantly related to brand happiness. The finding also supports that brand happiness was positively and significantly related to ‘consumers' willingness to share personal information. This relationship was fully mediated by brand intimacy. Brand happiness also mediated the relationship between website experience and the willingness to share personal information.Research limitations/implicationsThis study contributes to the emerging literature on brand happiness and willingness to share personal information. It establishes a central role of brand happiness as a driver and a mediator of consumers' willingness to share personal information with e-commerce retailers, extending the stimulus-organism-response framework in the context of brand happiness and willingness to share personal information. Further, the study establishes the role of website experience as a marketer (and brand) led driver of brand happiness.Practical implicationsThe results have implications for the role of the website in enhancing the consumer experience, which in turn is a driver of brand happiness. Further, managers need to promote brand happiness with the help of website experience to enable consumers’ willingness to share personal information and help organizations customize their marketing campaigns.Originality/valueThis is among the first studies to evaluate brand happiness from the perspective of an online retail website experience and consider consumers’ willingness to share personal information from a branding rather than a technological perspective. Additionally, the study introduces the SOR framework in the context of brand happiness, with website experience acting as a stimulus for consumers, resulting in brand happiness, which is mediated by brand partner quality and brand intimacy (organism), leads to consumers' willingness to share personal information with online retail brands (response).

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“…More recently leisure scholars have looked to positive psychology (Harmon & Kyle, 2016: Mitas, Yarnal, Adams & Ram, 2012, and a plethora of topics have emerged, such as leisure and wellbeing (ollanen & Voutilainen, 2018), resilience and leisure (Denovan & Macaskill, 2017), and in 2016 the World Leisure Journal dedicated a special issue to happiness and leisure (Robertson, 2016).…”

Section: Emotional Leisurementioning

confidence: 99%