Well-being in metrics and policy

Graham, Carol; Laffan, Kate; Pinto, Sérgio

doi:10.1126/science.aau5234

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“…This may be due to the lower levels of stigma associated with being informally employed in developing countries. It may also be that individuals in more deprived contexts emphasize hope for the future in the absence of capacity to control their lives, as the existing literature suggests [2]. The higher levels of optimism found among poor US minorities, compared to poor whites, also resonates here [4].…”

Section: The Subjective Well-being Of Prime-aged Males Olf Compared Tmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Moreover, despite the public frustration, most of the countries where uprisings took place were experiencing positive levels of economic growth. This is suggestive of the "progress paradox" phenomenon-in which significant segments of the population are left behind-which has been found in other countries and regions around the world, including those referenced above [2]. Recent research finds that prime-aged males OLF in MENA are not particularly unhappy compared to the fulltime employed, and have significantly higher levels of well-being than the unemployed [1].…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Despite the US being one of the wealthiest economies in the world, mortality rates are going up, driven by suicides and drug and alcohol overdoses-the so-called "deaths of despair" [2]. This trend is primarily, although not only, driven by less-than-college-educated whites in their middleaged years [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…McShea recently pointed out [2] that nestedness is one of very few things that show quantitatively documented trends on the scale of life's history, and classic works, for example, by Okasha [3] as well as Richardson and Boyd [4], highlight the theme. A multilayer approach is illustrated more recently in the Gallup-Sharecare 5 Well-Being Index [5] and this note on such metrics in Science [6].…”

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Task‐Layer Multiplicity as a Measure of Community Level Health

Fraundorf

2019

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The insights of many disciplines, and of commonsense, about individual-level well-being might be strengthened by a shift in focus to community-level well-being in a way that respects belief systems as well as the power of each individual. We start with the jargon of complex systems and the possibility that a small number of broken symmetries, marked by the edges of a hierarchical series of physical subsystem types, underlie the delicate correlation-based complexity of life on our planet’s surface. We show that an information-theory-inspired model of attention-focus on correlation layers, which looks in/out from the boundaries of skin, family, and culture, predicts that behaviorally diverse communities may tend toward a characteristic task-layer multiplicity per individual of only e29/20≅ 4.26 of the six correlation layers that comprise that community. This behavioral measure of opportunity may help us to (i) go beyond GDP in quantifying the impact of policy changes and disasters, (ii) manage electronic idea-streams in ways that strengthen community networks, and (iii) leverage our paleolithic shortcomings toward the enhancement of community-level task-layer diversity. Empirical methods for acquiring task-layer multiplicity data are in their infancy, although for human communities a great deal of potential lies in the analysis of web searches and asynchronous experience sampling similar to that used by “flu near you.”

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“…Evaluating behavioral interventions with multiple objectives can be a difficult process (Craig et al, 2008;Michie et al, 2011). There have been calls in the space of measurement to introduce more diverse and reflective metrics to investigate wellbeing and shifts of behavior in implementation and public health sciences (Craig et al, 2008;Graham, Laffan, & Pinto, 2018;Michie et al, 2009). To sufficiently address this challenging task, we designed an inventory we call the Sustainable Actions Checklist (SAC).…”

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Psychology as a nexus for global change: the role of behavioral sciences in overcoming anthropogenic marine degradation

Simmons¹

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II AbstractMany of the most significant challenges facing the world today implicate human behavior.From climate change, energy consumption, environmental crises, to workplace health and safety, nutrition and obesity-all stem back to how human beings make decisions about what they do, or do not do. Thus, the extent to which we can successfully address many of these challenges will depend on the extent to which we can design and deliver effective behavioral change interventions. One prominent example of a global challenge is the degradation of ecosystems by human activity.This dissertation focuses on the design, implementation, and testing of a behavior change intervention to ameliorate anthropogenic ecological decline. While current solutions tend to focus on increasing surveillance, addressing policies, and using financial incentives to motivate a change-behavioral-based approaches may yield effective and sustainable results for coastal communities. Drawing from the foundational principles of the Triple P System-a multilevel behavior change intervention for parents-the proposed project seeks to build on the broad principles of behavioral change that Triple P has drawn from to design an innovative behavioral change program for improving the health of ecosystems. The project begins by conducting a behavioral diagnosis: this involved conducting two studies that investigate the underlying psychological mechanisms that drive sustainable and destructive environmental behavior, while simultaneously assessing the everyday life circumstances of the target population. Once this behavioral profile is sufficiently articulated, the results of these studies are synthesized with prior literature, tested behavior change strategies, and the best implementation models to design a tailored and evidence based intervention for the target communities. The intervention designed, My FutureMy Oceans, is then tested in two low-resource coastal communities in Southeast Asia.The research investigates what lifestyle choices and behaviors can be modified to live sustainable and enriching lives. The current project examines how behavioral change principles and techniques can be applied to modify human behavior of villagers living in coastal communities. It involves the application of evidence-based behavior change models and behavioral design to novel circumstances. Further, the dissertation explores the unintended or adjacent benefits experienced by improving psychological skills, such as self-regulation, in low-resource coastal communities. The communities engaged in this project are particularly susceptible to anthropogenic hazards.Identifying intervention methods that increase their adaptability and resiliency are vital to the future prosperity of these vulnerable populations.This project is an exploration of interdisciplinary efforts and engagement to address global, complex issues. Our research took place across Southeast Asia-in Indonesia and the Philippineswith a diverse range of partners from sectors such as academia, government, indu...

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Well-being in metrics and policy

Abstract: Well-being metrics provide key insights for economic and environmental sustainability

Cited by 73 publications

References 15 publications

Men without work: A global well-being and ill-being comparison

Men without work: A global well-being and ill-being comparison

Task‐Layer Multiplicity as a Measure of Community Level Health

Psychology as a nexus for global change: the role of behavioral sciences in overcoming anthropogenic marine degradation

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