What makes people happy? An empirical investigation of panel data

Kim, Rae Yule

doi:10.1080/13504851.2020.1733471

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“…Proponents of wellbeing research have emphasized the buffering role of social support against the deleterious effects of distress ( Gariepy et al., 2016 ; Compton and Hoffman, 2013 ). This impact of social support in reducing distress and promoting well-being cannot be overemphasized ( Kim, 2020 ; Myers and Diener, 2018 ; Quoidbach et al., 2019 ). Support from social relations could be sourced from co-workers, family, neighbours, friends, or significant others.…”

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Sources of perceived social support on resilience amongst parents raising children with special needs in Ghana

Dey

Amponsah

2020

Heliyon

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Background: While parenting a child with special needs is burdensome, some parents do overcome through protective resources. Social support has been widely linked to this unique ability to overcome the challenges of raising a child with special needs. In spite of this, there is still paucity of research about the influence of the sources of perceived social support on this ability, known as resilience. Aim: This study examined three sources of perceived social support-family, friends and significant other-on the resilience of Ghanaian parents raising children with special needs while adjusting for covariates (parental gender, marital status and educational level). Methods: One hundred and seven (107) biological parents were recruited from special schools and parents support groups in Accra, Ghana. They completed paper-and-pencil or online questionnaires on resilience and perceived social support. Results: Output from hierarchical multiple regression after adjusting for covariates showed that only support from significant others predicted resilience. Additionally, being married was positively and holding a higher education was inversely associated with resilience. Conclusion and implication: These findings indicate the importance of support from significant others in the resiliency of parents but underscore the need to fully integrate and emphasize support from the other sources in resilience enhancing interventions.

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Sources of perceived social support on resilience amongst parents raising children with special needs in Ghana

Dey

Amponsah

2020

Heliyon

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“…Finally, evolution theory suggests that prosocial behavior may have evolved as a means of promoting survival and reproductive success (Kim, 2021). In the context of prosocial spending, individuals may engage in such behavior because it enhances their reputation within their social network, which in turn may increase their chances of finding mates, forming alliances, or gaining access to resources (Grant & Dutton, 2012; Inagaki & Orehek, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Better to give? A systematic review of prosocial spending and happiness

Chen

2023

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Considerable research has amassed a plethora of evidence indicating that prosocial spending has a consistently positive effect on individual happiness. Nevertheless, this effect may be subject to various influencing factors that researchers have yet to systematically examine. The purpose of this systematic review is twofold: first, to document the empirical evidence of the relationship between prosocial spending and happiness, and second, to systematically categorize the influential factors affecting this relationship from the perspective of mediators and moderators. To achieve this goal, this systematic review incorporates the influential factors identified by researchers into an intra‐individual, inter‐individual, and methodological framework. Ultimately, this review includes 14 empirical studies that have effectively fulfilled the aforementioned two objectives. The systematic review concludes that engaging in prosocial spending consistently demonstrates a positive effect on individual happiness, irrespective of cultural or demographic factors, although the complexity of this relationship necessitates consideration of mediating and moderating factors, as well as methodological nuances.

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“…This result illustrates the importance of family support in cushioning the possible impacts of perceived stress on FQOL among parents of children living with IDD. Most African societies (e.g., Igbo nation) are still highly collectivistic (Hofstede, 2001; Kim, 2021) and as such the level of the extended family's support is so crucial in determining how the manifestation of other factors (e.g., perceived stress) could impact on well‐being. The FQOL theory as proposed by Zuna et al (2010) threw more light on the importance of this interaction.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nigeria can rightly be described as a collectivist society where extended families matter a lot in balancing the well‐being of individuals (Kim, 2021; Triandis & Gelfand, 1998). Nuclear families are a microcosm of the extended families (Nwafor et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%