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Cover -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- The relationship of Muslims with non-Muslims based on the concept of muwālāt (loyalty) in the Qurʾān -- Fiat money: from the current Islamic finance scholars' perspective -- Spirituality and subjective wellbeing -- Contemporary Islamic economic studies on Maqasid Shari'ah: a systematic literature review -- Management and supervisory support as a moderator of work-family demands and women's well-being -- Maqashid Al-Shari'ah-based performance measurement for the halal industry -- Customers' Islamic ethical behavior: the case of Malaysian Islamic banks -- The impact of workplace spirituality on organizational commitment

PurposeUsing two main research questions, the purpose of this paper is to examine well-being and preparedness among Cambodian and Laotian immigrants living near the Gulf Coast of the USA, and the ways in which indicators such as sense of community and risk perception are related to these constructs.Design/methodology/approachThis study employed a cross-sectional prospective design to examine disaster preparedness and well-being among Laotian and Cambodian immigrant communities. Quantitative survey data using purposive snowball sampling were collected throughout several months in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Louisiana.FindingsResults from two multiple regressions revealed that sense of community and age contributed to well-being and were significant in the model, but with a negative relationship between age and well-being. Risk perception, confidence in government, confidence in engaging household preparedness and ability to cope with a financial crisis were significant predictors and positively related to disaster preparedness.Practical implicationsWell-being and disaster preparedness can be bolstered through community-based planning that seeks to address urgent needs of the people residing in vulnerable coastal locations. Specifically, immigrants who speak English as a second language, elder individuals and households in the lowest income brackets should be supported in disaster planning and outreach.Originality/valueCambodian and Laotian American immigrants rely upon the Gulf Coast's waters for fishing, crab and shrimp income. Despite on-going hazard and disasters, few studies address preparedness among immigrant populations in the USA. This study fills a gap in preparedness research as well as factors associated with well-being, an important aspect of long-term resilience.

Abstract. The shooter bias effect reveals that individuals are quicker to "shoot" armed Black (vs. White) men and slower to "not shoot" unarmed Black (vs. White) men in a computer task. In three studies ( N = 386), we examined whether being observed would reduce this effect because of social desirability concerns. Participants completed a "shooting" task with or without a camera/live observer supposedly recording behavior. Cameras were strapped to participants' heads (Studies 1a/1b) and pointed at them (Study 1b). In Study 2, a researcher observed participants complete the task while "filming" them with a smartphone. We replicated the shooter bias, but observation only reduced the effect in Study 2. These results reveal that being observed can reduce the shooter bias effect.

This volume presents key findings from the EU funded Measuring Youth Well-being (MYWeB) project which assessed the feasibility of a European Longitudinal Study for Children and Young People (ELSCYP). It draws on the original empirical data from a panel of experts in the field of child well-being as well as field experiences from a number of European countries. MYWeB explored strategies and methodological challenges for involving children and young people in well-being research in order to fight poverty and social exclusion. It does so by evaluating different options to measure the well-being of children and young people across Europe using a child centric approach. Written by experts researching children and young people from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds in the areas of sociology, psychology, political science, education, philosophy, economics, social policy, and evaluation.

CNRS 2, FNEGE 1, HCERES A, ABS 4 ; International audience ; Work organizations have long employed various management techniques in order to maximize workers' engagement, which in itself implies that 'alienation' at work is common. One of the central descriptions of alienation in classic writings is the idea of not being 'at home' while at work. In this article, however, we explore its obverse, which we term 'disalienation' – a relationship to work based on assumptions concerning control and agency, aided by collective participatory mechanisms for identity construction and dialogical building of social relationships. We suggest that the concept and experience can be productively explored in the context of organizations which are owned and controlled by workers. Using ethnographic case studies from two Polish co-operatives, we discuss the potential characteristics of a disalienating relation to a work organization and suggest that co-operatives can provide a way for workers to be 'at home' while they are at work.

CNRS 2, FNEGE 1, HCERES A, ABS 4 ; International audience ; Work organizations have long employed various management techniques in order to maximize workers' engagement, which in itself implies that 'alienation' at work is common. One of the central descriptions of alienation in classic writings is the idea of not being 'at home' while at work. In this article, however, we explore its obverse, which we term 'disalienation' – a relationship to work based on assumptions concerning control and agency, aided by collective participatory mechanisms for identity construction and dialogical building of social relationships. We suggest that the concept and experience can be productively explored in the context of organizations which are owned and controlled by workers. Using ethnographic case studies from two Polish co-operatives, we discuss the potential characteristics of a disalienating relation to a work organization and suggest that co-operatives can provide a way for workers to be 'at home' while they are at work.

Germany is often cited as a paradigmatic case for an ethnic model of nationalism but in recent years introduced many civic elements into its citizenship policies. The goal of the current article is to explore how German citizens construct their national identity against this backdrop. Using an inductive approach, we asked 987 German citizens to describe what being German means for them. A latent class analysis of content-coded responses revealed four classes: a heritage-based identity class with a strong focus on language and culture (39%), an ideology-based identity class that revolves around democracy, welfare, freedom, and economy and safety (19%), a legal-formalistic identity class that is mostly concerned with the legal requirement for obtaining and holding citizenship of national identity (26%), and a trait-based identity class describing personality-traits that are supposed to be typical for Germans (16%). These findings expand upon and add nuance to the commonly used civic vs. ethnic national identity content typology. ; peerReviewed ; publishedVersion

Germany is often cited as a paradigmatic case for an ethnic model of nationalism but in recent years introduced many civic elements into its citizenship policies. The goal of the current article is to explore how German citizens construct their national identity against this backdrop. Using an inductive approach, we asked 987 German citizens to describe what being German means for them. A latent class analysis of content-coded responses revealed four classes: a heritage-based identity class with a strong focus on language and culture (39%), an ideology-based identity class that revolves around democracy, welfare, freedom, and economy and safety (19%), a legal-formalistic identity class that is mostly concerned with the legal requirement for obtaining and holding citizenship of national identity (26%), and a trait-based identity class describing personality-traits that are supposed to be typical for Germans (16%). These findings expand upon and add nuance to the commonly used civic vs. ethnic national identity content typology.

It is essential to proactively detect mental health problems such as loneliness and depression in the independently-living elderly for timely intervention by caregivers. In this paper, we introduce an unobtrusive sensor-enabled monitoring system that has been deployed to 50 government housing ats with the independent-living elderly for two years. Then, we also present our initial findings from the 6-month sensor data between August 2015 and April 2016 as well as the survey data to measure the subjective well-being indicator. Our study showed the promising results that "room-level movements within a house" and "going out" behavior captured by our simple sensor system has a potential to detect the cases of severe loneliness and depression with the precision of 10/16 and recall of 10/12.

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We investigate the general effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on subjective well-being and determine whether this effect differs between recipients of basic income support (BIS) and the rest of the working-age population in Germany. BIS recipients constitute one of the most disadvantaged groups in Germany and might lack resources for coping with the crisis. Thus, our analysis contributes to investigations of whether the pandemic exacerbates or equalises preexisting social inequality. Our analysis employs data from the panel survey "Labour Market and Social Security" (PASS). These data have the key advantage that the collection in 2020 started prior to implementation of the first COVID-19-related policies. This situation enables us to apply a difference-in-differences approach to investigate the causal change in subjective well-being. Our results suggest that well-being declined during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we find no difference in this decline between BIS recipients and other German residents. Thus, our results suggest that the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic neither exacerbated nor equalised pre-existing inequalities.

Federal Intergency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. ; Cover title. ; This report was printed by the U.S. Government Printing Offi ce in cooperation with the National Center for Health Statistics, July 2006. " -- back cover ; Also available via the World Wide Web. ; Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2006. Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. ; Includes bibliographical references.

Over the past decades, the field of health psychology has witnessed a tremendous growth, and social psychologists have contributed substantially to the theoretical foundation of this field. Their research has focused on a wide variety of health-relevant topics such as how individuals decide to respond to threats to their health and well-being, how and why they change their behavior to avoid such threats, and especially, how they adjust to or cope with the risk of threatening disease and with the diseases themselves. As diverse as this literature may be, however, there does appear to be a commo

At the level of the 50 U.S. states, an interconnected nexus of well-being variables exists. These variables strongly correlate with estimates of state IQ in interesting ways. However, the state IQ estimates are now more than 16 years old, and the state well-being estimates are over 12 years old. Updated state IQ and well-being estimates are therefore needed. Thus, I first created new state IQ estimates by analyzing scores from both the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competency (for adults), and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (for fourth and eighth grade children) exams. I also created new global well-being scores by analyzing state variables from the following four well-being subdomains: crime, income, health, and education. When validating the nexus, several interesting correlations existed among the variables. For example, state IQ most strongly predicted FICO credit scores, alcohol consumption (directly), income inequality, and state temperature. Interestingly, state IQ derived here also correlated 0.58 with state IQ estimates from over 100 years ago. Global well-being likewise correlated with many old and new variables in the nexus, including a correlation of 0.80 with IQ. In sum, at the level of the U.S. state, a nexus of important, strongly correlated variables exists. These variables comprise well-being, and state IQ is a central node in this network.

Are workers in modern economies working too hard – would they be better off if an equilibrium with fewer work hours were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans over a period when hours of work were cut exogenously because employers suddenly faced an overtime penalty that had become effective with fewer weekly hours per worker. Using repeated cross sections we show that life satisfaction in both countries may have increased relatively among those workers most likely to have been affected by the legislation. The same finding is produced using Korean longitudinal data. In a household model estimated over the Korean cross-section data we find some weak evidence that a reduction in the husband's work hours increased his wife's well-being. Overall these results are consistent with the claim that legislated reductions in work hours can increase workers' happiness.