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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 163 in total

  1. The change and stability of NEO scores over six-years: a British study and a short review

    Adrian Furnham and Helen Cheng

    1. Psychology
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Life Course Analysis

  2. The relationship between personality and job satisfaction across occupations

    Maria Törnroos, Markus Jokela, and Christian Hakulinen

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being

  3. Assessing the relationships between young adults’ travel and use of the internet over time

    Guoqiang Wu, Jinhyun Hong, and Piyushimita Thakuriah

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Information And Communication Technologies
    3. Psychology
    4. Young People
    5. Social Attitudes
    6. Travel
    7. Social Behaviour

  4. Understanding cultural omnivores: social and political attitudes

    Tak Wing Chan

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Arts
    4. Social Attitudes
    5. Sociology
    6. Social Mobility

  5. Giving behaviours and social cohesion: how people who 'give' make better communities

    Lorna Zischka

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Societies
    4. Social Capital
    5. Social Behaviour
    6. Social Psychology

  6. Happy days: does volunteering make us happier or is it that happier people volunteer?

    Ricky N. Lawton, Iulian Gramatki, and Will Watt

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Time Use
    4. Economics
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Social Behaviour

  7. The benefits of volunteering: a summary of work from 2014 to 2019

    Ricky N. Lawton and Will Watt

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Time Use
    4. Economics
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Social Behaviour

  8. Tracing the gender gap in political interest over the life span: a panel analysis

    Marta Fraile and Irene Sánchez-Vítores

    1. Politics
    2. Psychology
    3. Demography
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Attitudes
    6. Social Behaviour

  9. Economic shocks on subjective well-being: re-assessing the determinants of life-satisfaction after the 2008 financial crisis

    Aurelie Charles, Dongxu Wu, and Zhongmin Wu

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Economics
    4. Well Being
    5. Finance
    6. Social Psychology

  10. The restorative effect of work after unemployment: an intraindividual analysis of subjective well-being recovery through reemployment

    Ying Zhou, Min Zou, Stephen A. Woods, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Well Being
    5. Life Course Analysis

  11. Economic insecurity: a socioeconomic determinant of mental health

    Daniel Kopasker, Catia Montagna, and Keith A. Bender

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  12. People do not adapt to income changes: a re-evaluation of the dynamic effects of (reference) income on life satisfaction with GSOEP and UKHLS data

    Caspar Kaiser

    1. Psychology
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Well Being

  13. Education, income and happiness: panel evidence for the UK

    Felix R. FitzRoy and Michael A. Nolan

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Economics
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Well Being
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Higher Education

  14. Will a shrink make you richer? Gender differences in the effects of psychotherapy on labour efficiency

    Guido Cozzi, Silvia Galli, and Noemi Mantovan

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Well Being

  15. Curb your enthusiasm: optimistic entrepreneurs earn less

    Christopher Dawson, David de Meza, Andrew Henley, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Management: Business
    3. Labour Market
    4. Organizations And Firms
    5. Wages And Earnings

  16. Vocation, mental illness and the absenteeism decision

    Ourega-Zoé Ejebu and Diane Skåtun

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  17. Paradox lost: the disappearing female job satisfaction premium

    Colin P. Green, John S. Heywood, Parvinder Kler, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being

  18. Smile or die: can subjective well-being increase survival in the face of substantive health impairments?

    Martin Binder and Guido Buenstorf

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Health

  19. The Big Five personality traits and partisanship in England

    Toke Aidt and Christopher Rauh

    1. Politics
    2. Public Opinion
    3. Psychology
    4. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    5. Life Course Analysis

  20. The good childhood report 2018

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    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Well Being

  21. Place and preference effects on the association between mental health and internal migration within Great Britain

    Sam Wilding, David Martin, and Graham Moon

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Demography
    5. Migration
    6. Well Being
    7. Health

  22. Factors affecting psychological well-being: evidence from two nationally representative surveys

    G. Oskrochi, Ahmed Bani-Mustafa, and Y. Oskrochi

    1. Psychology
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Finance

  23. Work and volunteering: longitudinal relationships between work‐related experiences and volunteering behaviour

    Daniela Lup and E. Booth Jonathan

    1. Psychology
    2. Sociology Of Labour
    3. Labour Market
    4. Social Capital

  24. Local-level immigration and life satisfaction: the EU enlargement experience in England and Wales

    Artjoms Ivlevs and Michail Veliziotis

    1. Public Opinion
    2. Area Effects
    3. Psychology
    4. Geography
    5. Demography
    6. Migration
    7. Well Being
    8. Social Attitudes
    9. Race Relations

  25. The origins of happiness: the science of well-being over the life course

    Andrew E. Clark, Sarah Flèche, Richard Layard, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Public Policy
    3. Well Being
    4. Life Course Analysis

  26. Core political values and the long-term shaping of partisanship in the British electorate

    Geoffrey Evans and Anja Neundorf

    1. Politics
    2. Psychology
    3. Elections. Electoral Behaviour

  27. Home-ownership as a social norm and positional good: subjective wellbeing evidence from panel data

    Chris Foye, David Clapham, and Tommaso Gabrieli

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Housing Market

  28. What is the impact of air pollution on life satisfaction for people living in England?

    Sarah Knight and Peter Howley

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Area Effects
    3. Psychology
    4. Geography
    5. Well Being

  29. Understanding variations in children’s subjective well-being: a longitudinal analysis -PhD thesis-

    Gwyther Rees

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Child Development
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

  30. When the pound in people’s pocket matters: how changes to personal financial circumstances affect party choice

    James Tilley, Anja Neundorf, and Sara B. Hobolt

    1. Politics
    2. Public Opinion
    3. Psychology
    4. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    5. Households
    6. Economics
    7. Government
    8. Income Dynamics
    9. Finance
    10. Economic Policy

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