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Over recent years, the Treasury has increasingly focussed on using a living standards framework to assess the impact of government policies on the wellbeing of New Zealanders. The purpose of this report is to evaluate a range of different frameworks for measuring current wellbeing that exist both internationally and domestically as part of the further development of the Treasury Living Standards Framework.

"Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing draws on original research bringing together dimensions of cities we know have a bearing on our health and wellbeing--including transportation, housing, energy, and foodways--and illustrates the role of design in delivering cities in the future that can enhance our health and wellbeing. It aims to demonstrate that cities are a complex interplay of these various dimensions that both shape, and are shaped by, existing and emerging city structures, governance, design and planning. Explaining how to consider these interconnecting dimensions in the way in which professionals and citizens think about and design the city for future generations' health and wellbeing, therefore, is key. The chapters draw on UK case and research examples and make comparison to international cities and examples. This book will be of great interest to researchers and students in planning, public policy, public health, and design"--

With teacher burnout on the rise in the US, this study explores the resources that teachers report to need to buffer the demands of their job and to increase their experience of wellbeing instead of stress and burnout. The data consists of tweets that teachers posted as a part of the #ArmMeWith Twitter campaign to voice the resource that they need in their job. We used thematic analysis to categorize teacher resource needs from 2,639 tweets. Using the Job Demands-Resources theory (JD-R) of employee wellbeing, we sorted codes into themes (physical, psychological, social, organizational), and investigated resource needs across regions of the United States. In this sample, teachers reported needs in all JD-R resource categories, and we identified an additional theme of institutional resource needs to represent the need for political and social change that teachers reported. In our frequency analysis, the need for physical and organizational resources were the most prevalent, and we found no regional differences. This research contributes to the literature on teacher wellbeing by highlighting resources that have the potential to bolster teacher wellbeing. The research also contributes to the JD-R theory by suggesting that institutional factors may contribute to employee wellbeing.

"The Spatial Practices series is premised on the observation that places are inscribed with cultural meaning, not least of all in terms of collective constructions of identity. Such space-based constructions can manifest in material and immaterial, explicit and implicit forms of heritage, and they are crucial factors in the promotion of a group's wellbeing. It is this intersection of spaces, heritage and wellbeing that the present volume takes at its object"--

AbstractThis special issue explores social harmony and community wellbeing with some examples of Asian countries. These are essential tools to fight against many social problems and meet elucidation. While these concepts are not documented well in social work literature, the articles on this special issue will provide thoughtful and valuable guidelines to the readers, academics, policy makers and researchers for expanding and improving social and community services.

When policy-makers have multiple objectives, they still need an over-arching criterion which determines the importance of the different objectives. The most reasonable criterion is the wellbeing of the population. Fortunately, it turns out that this is also the outcome which most determines whether a government gets re-elected. We therefore argue that, wherever there is a fixed budget constraint, money should allocated to those policies which give the greatest increase in wellbeing per pound of expenditure. If desired, now policies can focus especially on areas of life which cause the most misery. The new science of wellbeing provides evidence on which these are: especially mental and physical illness and poor relationships at work, at home or in the community. But, to approve a policy, there must be evidence of its effectiveness in dealing with the problem – preferably through controlled experiments. Where a policy increases the length of life, this counts as an addition to wellbeing, measured by Wellbeing-Years (or WELLBYs) per person born. Even policy-makers unmoved by wellbeing as an objective should promote it because of its large positive effects on productivity, academic learning and life-expectancy. If wellbeing is to play its proper role in decision-making, this will require a major re-organisation of Finance Ministries and other decision-making bodies.

The ranking list of the best countries in the world published in Newsweek (August 23 & 30, 2010) caused debate on the factors that have helped some countries create better living conditions for people than many other countries, but there was hardly any discussion of the basic causes of the persistence of enormous disparities in human conditions in the world. The purpose of this paper is to compare various indexes measuring human wellbeing from different perspectives and to seek an explanation for their similarities and for the persistence of great disparities. The central argument is that clear differences in the average intelligence of nations (national IQ) explain a main part of the national differences in living conditions measured by various indexes. Adapted from the source document.

The Big Five Personality factors have long been identified as strong predictors of subjective wellbeing. However, studies on subjective wellbeing have been focused on the affective aspect of personality to the neglect of other dimensions. This study therefore examines the influence of agreeableness and conscientiousness on life satisfaction among residents in Ibadan metropolis. Using a 2-way factorial design and a multistage sampling technique, 10 enumeration areas were selected from each of the five major Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Ibadan metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria, with simple random technique.Two hundred and twenty households were selected from each of the selected LGAs with the help of enumeration area maps, using systematic technique, making a total of 1,100 households. A questionnaire focusing on socio-demographic profile, life satisfaction scale (r=0.74) and the big 5 personality inventory (r=0.76) was administered to houseowners and renters, who are the participants. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and analysis of variance at 0.05 level of significance. Three hypotheses were tested. The result reveals that conscientiousness has a significant main effect on life satisfaction and also interacts with agreeableness to predict life satisfaction F(1,686)=4.15). Emphasis should be on all the Big Five personality factors for a comprehensive examination of personality and life satisfaction. Article DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.20319/pijss.2016.23.6887 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.

"The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda. How to frame this discontent and search for new alternatives when either socialism or liberalism no longer provides a satisfactory framework? This book introduces in an accessible way the capability approach, first articulated by Amartya Sen in the early 1980s. Written for an international audience, but rooted in the Latin American reality - a region with a history of movements for social justice - the book argues that the capability approach provides to date, the most encompassing and promising ethical framework with which to construct action for improving people's wellbeing and reducing injustices in the world. Comprehensive, practical and nuanced in its treatment of the capability approach, this highly original volume gives students, researchers and professionals in the field of development an innovative framing of the capability approach as a 'language' for action and provides specific examples of how it has made a difference"--

"The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda. How to frame this discontent and search for new alternatives when either socialism or liberalism no longer provides a satisfactory framework? This book introduces in an accessible way the capability approach, first articulated by Amartya Sen in the early 1980s. Written for an international audience, but rooted in the Latin American reality - a region with a history of movements for social justice - the book argues that the capability approach provides to date, the most encompassing and promising ethical framework with which to construct action for improving people's wellbeing and reducing injustices in the world. Comprehensive, practical and nuanced in its treatment of the capability approach, this highly original volume gives students, researchers and professionals in the field of development an innovative framing of the capability approach as a 'language' for action and provides specific examples of how it has made a difference"--

AbstractWe investigate the relationship between eudaimonic wellbeing (sense of life) and subjective survival probability (SSP), a proxy for self‐assessed life expectancy. Our econometric analysis uses 220,601 observations of SHARE panel data from 2006 to 2015. We find evidence of a robust and strong positive relationship between eudaimonic wellbeing and subjective survival probability after controlling for self‐assessed health, coupled with a negative effect of sense of life on mortality. The magnitude of the first effect is relevant, since the minimum difference (adjusted for fixed effects) between individuals declaring the highest versus the lowest sense of life is a 7‐point higher self‐assessed probability of being alive at the target age. Together, our two main findings imply that when respondents declare a high sense of life, they self‐report a lower mortality risk and their predictions are correct.

Definitions of financial wellbeing have begun to emerge internationally [e.g., Consumer Finances Protection Bureau 7]. However, Australia lacks a definition. This project, commissioned by Financial Literacy Australia, fills this gap. It provides a definition for financial wellbeing that aims to be relevant to, and meaningful for, Australians of different ages and the people who work to improve financial outcomes. The project asked:- What is financial wellbeing, and what are its different parts?- What are the factors that influence financial wellbeing?- Where does financial capability fit in?- How can we measure financial wellbeing?These questions were answered using data from an international literature review; focus groups and interviews with 72 people; a survey of 821 people living in Australia aged 18 and over; and consultations with experts in the field (from for-profit, not-for-profit and government sectors).

Quality of life at the workplace has a substantial impact on wellbeing of most adults. We distinguished three types of determinants: work-specific drivers, objective features of the employee as part of human capital (age, employment status, education level, etc.) and other subjective perceptions, feelings and attitudes (personality type, general life satisfaction) of the employee. Majority of people spend significant part of their life at work so it is crucial to determine those drivers which make employees happier, more satisfied – and hopefully – more productive. The first task was to find the key work-specific and personal features that affect employee wellbeing. The second issue was to test the assumption that job-satisfaction is positively correlated with the productivity on individual level. We tested our hypothesis on EU-SILC micro dataset together with its special module on wellbeing for 2013. We found that job satisfaction had a direct positive influence on individual productivity. We made some conclusions and emphasized the role of the employers and the government.