INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WELLBEINGHOMEABOUTLATEST ISSUEARCHIVESSUBMISSIONSIJW NEWSROOM About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. VOL. 10 NO. 5 (2020): CREATIVITY AND WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. COVID-19, GENDER INEQUALITY, AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE Previous research has shown that women are disproportionately negatively affected by a variety of socio-economic hardships, many of which COVID-19 is making worse. In particular, because of gender roles, and because women’s jobs tend to be given lower priority than men’s (since they are more likely to be part-time, lower-income, and less secure), women assume the obligations of increased SPECIAL ISSUE: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. THE CHALLENGE OF DEFINING WELLBEING Wellbeing is a growing area of research, yet the question of how it should be defined remains unanswered. This multi-disciplinary review explores past attempts to define wellbeing and provides an overview of the main theoretical perspectives, from the work of Aristotle to the present day. The article argues that many attempts at expressing its nature have focused purely on dimensions of THE BENEFIT MINDSET: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTRIBUTION AND This paper explores the significance of mindset in shaping a future of greater possibility. One’s mindset reflects personally distinguishable attitudes, beliefs and values, which influence one’s ability to learn and lead, and to achieve and contribute. Bringing together two areas of research – a “being well” perspective from positive psychology and a socially and ecologically THE PERMA-PROFILER: A BRIEF MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASURE OF Abstract: In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We developed the PERMA-Profiler as a brief measure of PERMA. We first compiled hundreds of theoretically relevant items. Three studies (N = 7,188) reduced, tested, and refined items, resulting in a final set of 15 MINDFULNESS, MENTAL HEALTH AND EMOTION REGULATION AMONG Few studies have been conducted to examine the relationship between mindfulness training and emotion regulation at work. This study reports results from a semi-randomized controlled trial of a brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) (Grégoire & Lachance, 2015) delivered in audio format. A pretest-posttest switching-replication design was used to assess changes in mindfulness, mental MEASURING FLOURISHING: THE IMPACT OF OPERATIONAL The epidemiology of flourishing is an important research topic prompting international interest in its psychometric assessment. But the need to measure human feelings and functioning at the population level has resulted in the creation of a multitude of different conceptual frameworks of flourishing: a term now commonly used to describe high levels of subjective wellbeing. THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO MEASURE THE Empirical research on employee job crafting is scarce, probably because until recently scales with which the construct can be reliably and validly measured were not available. Although a general scale has recently been developed, the cognitive component of job crafting was omitted. The aim of the present study was to address this gap by developing and validating the 15-item Job Crafting INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WELLBEINGHOMEABOUTLATEST ISSUEARCHIVESSUBMISSIONSIJW NEWSROOM About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. VOL. 10 NO. 5 (2020): CREATIVITY AND WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. COVID-19, GENDER INEQUALITY, AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE Previous research has shown that women are disproportionately negatively affected by a variety of socio-economic hardships, many of which COVID-19 is making worse. In particular, because of gender roles, and because women’s jobs tend to be given lower priority than men’s (since they are more likely to be part-time, lower-income, and less secure), women assume the obligations of increased SPECIAL ISSUE: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. THE CHALLENGE OF DEFINING WELLBEING Wellbeing is a growing area of research, yet the question of how it should be defined remains unanswered. This multi-disciplinary review explores past attempts to define wellbeing and provides an overview of the main theoretical perspectives, from the work of Aristotle to the present day. The article argues that many attempts at expressing its nature have focused purely on dimensions of THE BENEFIT MINDSET: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTRIBUTION AND This paper explores the significance of mindset in shaping a future of greater possibility. One’s mindset reflects personally distinguishable attitudes, beliefs and values, which influence one’s ability to learn and lead, and to achieve and contribute. Bringing together two areas of research – a “being well” perspective from positive psychology and a socially and ecologically THE PERMA-PROFILER: A BRIEF MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASURE OF Abstract: In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We developed the PERMA-Profiler as a brief measure of PERMA. We first compiled hundreds of theoretically relevant items. Three studies (N = 7,188) reduced, tested, and refined items, resulting in a final set of 15 MINDFULNESS, MENTAL HEALTH AND EMOTION REGULATION AMONG Few studies have been conducted to examine the relationship between mindfulness training and emotion regulation at work. This study reports results from a semi-randomized controlled trial of a brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) (Grégoire & Lachance, 2015) delivered in audio format. A pretest-posttest switching-replication design was used to assess changes in mindfulness, mental MEASURING FLOURISHING: THE IMPACT OF OPERATIONAL The epidemiology of flourishing is an important research topic prompting international interest in its psychometric assessment. But the need to measure human feelings and functioning at the population level has resulted in the creation of a multitude of different conceptual frameworks of flourishing: a term now commonly used to describe high levels of subjective wellbeing. THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO MEASURE THE Empirical research on employee job crafting is scarce, probably because until recently scales with which the construct can be reliably and validly measured were not available. Although a general scale has recently been developed, the cognitive component of job crafting was omitted. The aim of the present study was to address this gap by developing and validating the 15-item Job Crafting TOWARDS A GREATER GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF WELLBEING: A The science of wellbeing has come a long way from the early days of measuring wellbeing via a nation’s GDP, and wellbeing measures and concepts continue to proliferate to capture its various elements. Yet, much of this activity has reflected concepts from Western cultures, despite the emphasis placed on wellbeing in all corners of the globe. MOMENTS, NOT MINUTES: THE NATURE-WELLBEING RELATIONSHIP A wealth of literature has evidenced the important role that the greater-than-human natural environment plays in our mental health and wellbeing (reviews by Bratman et al., 2019; Capaldi et al., 2014, 2015; Pritchard et al., 2019). Spending time in nature, engaging with nature directly and indirectly, and a strong sense of nature connectedness (a psychological/emotional connection with nature THE PERMA-PROFILER: A BRIEF MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASURE OF Abstract: In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We developed the PERMA-Profiler as a brief measure of PERMA. We first compiled hundreds of theoretically relevant items. Three studies (N = 7,188) reduced, tested, and refined items, resulting in a final set of 15 THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILD WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. MINDFULNESS, MENTAL HEALTH AND EMOTION REGULATION AMONG Few studies have been conducted to examine the relationship between mindfulness training and emotion regulation at work. This study reports results from a semi-randomized controlled trial of a brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) (Grégoire & Lachance, 2015) delivered in audio format. A pretest-posttest switching-replication design was used to assess changes in mindfulness, mental SELF-REGULATION CAPACITY IS LINKED TO WELLBEING AND Self-regulation capacity relates to important self-help skills allowing individuals to effectively manage their thoughts, feelings, and actions to attain goals while mastering a demanding environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self- regulation capacity, psychological wellbeing, and burnout in 37 Canadian medical students and 25 physicians. THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO MEASURE THE Empirical research on employee job crafting is scarce, probably because until recently scales with which the construct can be reliably and validly measured were not available. Although a general scale has recently been developed, the cognitive component of job crafting was omitted. The aim of the present study was to address this gap by developing and validating the 15-item Job Crafting VICARIOUS POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE Twenty-eight articles are included in this review, which provides the first comprehensive review of the vicarious posttraumatic growth (VPTG) literature. Five domains are presented. First, assessment methods of VPTG are reviewed; seventeen studies assessed VPTG using a measure designed for use with direct trauma survivors, three used a non-validated measure, and the remaining eight used an RELIGION, DEPRIVATION AND SUBJECTIVE WELLBEING: TESTING A The buffering effect of religion upon wellbeing has been well demonstrated; however, the question of whether this buffering effect also extends to protecting the religious against material hardship still requires investigation. We present a Bayesian linear regression model showing that religious affiliation provides a protective buffer against the corrosive effects on subjective wellbeing of WHEN YOU ASK THE FISH: CHILD WELLBEING THROUGH THE EYES OF Child wellbeing is the subject of substantial academic and policy interest globally and in New Zealand. Notably however, the voices of children are largely missing in much of the extended literature. In addition, and largely due to an assumption that wellbeing is a universally held construct, the influence of cultural values and beliefs on the perceptions and experiences of wellbeing of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WELLBEINGHOMEABOUTLATEST ISSUEARCHIVESSUBMISSIONSIJW NEWSROOM About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. VOL. 10 NO. 5 (2020): CREATIVITY AND WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. COVID-19, GENDER INEQUALITY, AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE Previous research has shown that women are disproportionately negatively affected by a variety of socio-economic hardships, many of which COVID-19 is making worse. In particular, because of gender roles, and because women’s jobs tend to be given lower priority than men’s (since they are more likely to be part-time, lower-income, and less secure), women assume the obligations of increased SPECIAL ISSUE: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILD WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. THE CHALLENGE OF DEFINING WELLBEING Wellbeing is a growing area of research, yet the question of how it should be defined remains unanswered. This multi-disciplinary review explores past attempts to define wellbeing and provides an overview of the main theoretical perspectives, from the work of Aristotle to the present day. The article argues that many attempts at expressing its nature have focused purely on dimensions of THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO MEASURE THE Empirical research on employee job crafting is scarce, probably because until recently scales with which the construct can be reliably and validly measured were not available. Although a general scale has recently been developed, the cognitive component of job crafting was omitted. The aim of the present study was to address this gap by developing and validating the 15-item Job Crafting THE PERMA-PROFILER: A BRIEF MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASURE OF Abstract: In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We developed the PERMA-Profiler as a brief measure of PERMA. We first compiled hundreds of theoretically relevant items. Three studies (N = 7,188) reduced, tested, and refined items, resulting in a final set of 15 THE BENEFIT MINDSET: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTRIBUTION AND This paper explores the significance of mindset in shaping a future of greater possibility. One’s mindset reflects personally distinguishable attitudes, beliefs and values, which influence one’s ability to learn and lead, and to achieve and contribute. Bringing together two areas of research – a “being well” perspective from positive psychology and a socially and ecologically VIEW OF THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO Return to Article Details The Job Crafting Questionnaire: A new scale to measure the extent to which employees engage in job crafting. Download Download PDF Download PDF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WELLBEINGHOMEABOUTLATEST ISSUEARCHIVESSUBMISSIONSIJW NEWSROOM About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. VOL. 10 NO. 5 (2020): CREATIVITY AND WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. COVID-19, GENDER INEQUALITY, AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE Previous research has shown that women are disproportionately negatively affected by a variety of socio-economic hardships, many of which COVID-19 is making worse. In particular, because of gender roles, and because women’s jobs tend to be given lower priority than men’s (since they are more likely to be part-time, lower-income, and less secure), women assume the obligations of increased SPECIAL ISSUE: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILD WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. THE CHALLENGE OF DEFINING WELLBEING Wellbeing is a growing area of research, yet the question of how it should be defined remains unanswered. This multi-disciplinary review explores past attempts to define wellbeing and provides an overview of the main theoretical perspectives, from the work of Aristotle to the present day. The article argues that many attempts at expressing its nature have focused purely on dimensions of THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO MEASURE THE Empirical research on employee job crafting is scarce, probably because until recently scales with which the construct can be reliably and validly measured were not available. Although a general scale has recently been developed, the cognitive component of job crafting was omitted. The aim of the present study was to address this gap by developing and validating the 15-item Job Crafting THE PERMA-PROFILER: A BRIEF MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASURE OF Abstract: In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We developed the PERMA-Profiler as a brief measure of PERMA. We first compiled hundreds of theoretically relevant items. Three studies (N = 7,188) reduced, tested, and refined items, resulting in a final set of 15 THE BENEFIT MINDSET: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTRIBUTION AND This paper explores the significance of mindset in shaping a future of greater possibility. One’s mindset reflects personally distinguishable attitudes, beliefs and values, which influence one’s ability to learn and lead, and to achieve and contribute. Bringing together two areas of research – a “being well” perspective from positive psychology and a socially and ecologically VIEW OF THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO Return to Article Details The Job Crafting Questionnaire: A new scale to measure the extent to which employees engage in job crafting. Download Download PDF Download PDF THE BENEFIT MINDSET: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTRIBUTION AND This paper explores the significance of mindset in shaping a future of greater possibility. One’s mindset reflects personally distinguishable attitudes, beliefs and values, which influence one’s ability to learn and lead, and to achieve and contribute. Bringing together two areas of research – a “being well” perspective from positive psychology and a socially and ecologically LEARN IT, LIVE IT, TEACH IT, EMBED IT: IMPLEMENTING A Schools provide unique environments for the implementation of interventions to support the mental health and wellbeing of young people. While promising as an intervention setting, the school system is inherently complex, and any successful intervention or programme must account for, and adapt to, such complexity. Whole-school approaches that comprise multi-components and promote THE PERMA-PROFILER: A BRIEF MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASURE OF Abstract: In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We developed the PERMA-Profiler as a brief measure of PERMA. We first compiled hundreds of theoretically relevant items. Three studies (N = 7,188) reduced, tested, and refined items, resulting in a final set of 15 VIEW OF THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO Return to Article Details The Job Crafting Questionnaire: A new scale to measure the extent to which employees engage in job crafting. Download Download PDF Download PDF MINDFULNESS, MENTAL HEALTH AND EMOTION REGULATION AMONG Few studies have been conducted to examine the relationship between mindfulness training and emotion regulation at work. This study reports results from a semi-randomized controlled trial of a brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) (Grégoire & Lachance, 2015) delivered in audio format. A pretest-posttest switching-replication design was used to assess changes in mindfulness, mental RESILIENCE IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS: A REVIEW OF RECENT All health professions face numerous stressors within their clinical practice, including time pressures, workload, multiple roles and emotional issues. Frequent workplace stress can impact on the physical and mental wellbeing of health professionals and result in burnout and, in some cases, traumatic stress-like symptoms. These outcomes can impact not only on the wellbeing of health WHEN YOU ASK THE FISH: CHILD WELLBEING THROUGH THE EYES OF Child wellbeing is the subject of substantial academic and policy interest globally and in New Zealand. Notably however, the voices of children are largely missing in much of the extended literature. In addition, and largely due to an assumption that wellbeing is a universally held construct, the influence of cultural values and beliefs on the perceptions and experiences of wellbeing of SELF-REGULATION CAPACITY IS LINKED TO WELLBEING AND Self-regulation capacity relates to important self-help skills allowing individuals to effectively manage their thoughts, feelings, and actions to attain goals while mastering a demanding environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self- regulation capacity, psychological wellbeing, and burnout in 37 Canadian medical students and 25 physicians. RELIGION AND WELL-BEING AROUND THE WORLD: SOCIAL PURPOSE A number of studies find that religious people are happier than non-religious ones. Yet a number of fundamental questions about that relationship remain unanswered. A critical one is the direction of causality: does religion make people happier or are happier people more likely to have faith in something that is beyond their control? We posit that the relationship between religion and MEASURING FLOURISHING: THE IMPACT OF OPERATIONAL The epidemiology of flourishing is an important research topic prompting international interest in its psychometric assessment. But the need to measure human feelings and functioning at the population level has resulted in the creation of a multitude of different conceptual frameworks of flourishing: a term now commonly used to describe high levels of subjective wellbeing. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WELLBEINGHOMEABOUTLATEST ISSUEARCHIVESSUBMISSIONSIJW NEWSROOM About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. VOL. 10 NO. 5 (2020): CREATIVITY AND WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. THE CHALLENGE OF DEFINING WELLBEING Wellbeing is a growing area of research, yet the question of how it should be defined remains unanswered. This multi-disciplinary review explores past attempts to define wellbeing and provides an overview of the main theoretical perspectives, from the work of Aristotle to the present day. The article argues that many attempts at expressing its nature have focused purely on dimensions of COVID-19, GENDER INEQUALITY, AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE Previous research has shown that women are disproportionately negatively affected by a variety of socio-economic hardships, many of which COVID-19 is making worse. In particular, because of gender roles, and because women’s jobs tend to be given lower priority than men’s (since they are more likely to be part-time, lower-income, and less secure), women assume the obligations of increased THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILD WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. DISCOURSE ON WELLBEING IN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE The aim of this article is to consider debates around the contested nature of concepts of wellbeing in health and social science research and practice, given that government policy discourse centres on the importance of wellbeing as a tool for making policy and evaluating outcomes. It draws attention to the work of McNaught (2011). He has developed a definitional framework of wellbeing, in SUBJECTIVE WELLBEING OF ITALIAN HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS Italy was one of the strongest hit countries from the SARS-CoV-2 and the healthcare system was put under exceptional stress during the outbreak. The lockdown imposed on the population put the economy on hold and opened the way for a crisis that would have an impact on the healthcare system and the economy of the country. This study compares levels of subjective wellbeing among healthcare THE BENEFIT MINDSET: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTRIBUTION AND This paper explores the significance of mindset in shaping a future of greater possibility. One’s mindset reflects personally distinguishable attitudes, beliefs and values, which influence one’s ability to learn and lead, and to achieve and contribute. Bringing together two areas of research – a “being well” perspective from positive psychology and a socially and ecologically THE PERMA-PROFILER: A BRIEF MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASURE OF Abstract: In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We developed the PERMA-Profiler as a brief measure of PERMA. We first compiled hundreds of theoretically relevant items. Three studies (N = 7,188) reduced, tested, and refined items, resulting in a final set of 15 MEASURING FLOURISHING: THE IMPACT OF OPERATIONAL The epidemiology of flourishing is an important research topic prompting international interest in its psychometric assessment. But the need to measure human feelings and functioning at the population level has resulted in the creation of a multitude of different conceptual frameworks of flourishing: a term now commonly used to describe high levels of subjective wellbeing. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WELLBEINGHOMEABOUTLATEST ISSUEARCHIVESSUBMISSIONSIJW NEWSROOM About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. VOL. 10 NO. 5 (2020): CREATIVITY AND WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. THE CHALLENGE OF DEFINING WELLBEING Wellbeing is a growing area of research, yet the question of how it should be defined remains unanswered. This multi-disciplinary review explores past attempts to define wellbeing and provides an overview of the main theoretical perspectives, from the work of Aristotle to the present day. The article argues that many attempts at expressing its nature have focused purely on dimensions of COVID-19, GENDER INEQUALITY, AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE Previous research has shown that women are disproportionately negatively affected by a variety of socio-economic hardships, many of which COVID-19 is making worse. In particular, because of gender roles, and because women’s jobs tend to be given lower priority than men’s (since they are more likely to be part-time, lower-income, and less secure), women assume the obligations of increased THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILD WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. DISCOURSE ON WELLBEING IN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE The aim of this article is to consider debates around the contested nature of concepts of wellbeing in health and social science research and practice, given that government policy discourse centres on the importance of wellbeing as a tool for making policy and evaluating outcomes. It draws attention to the work of McNaught (2011). He has developed a definitional framework of wellbeing, in SUBJECTIVE WELLBEING OF ITALIAN HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS Italy was one of the strongest hit countries from the SARS-CoV-2 and the healthcare system was put under exceptional stress during the outbreak. The lockdown imposed on the population put the economy on hold and opened the way for a crisis that would have an impact on the healthcare system and the economy of the country. This study compares levels of subjective wellbeing among healthcare THE BENEFIT MINDSET: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTRIBUTION AND This paper explores the significance of mindset in shaping a future of greater possibility. One’s mindset reflects personally distinguishable attitudes, beliefs and values, which influence one’s ability to learn and lead, and to achieve and contribute. Bringing together two areas of research – a “being well” perspective from positive psychology and a socially and ecologically THE PERMA-PROFILER: A BRIEF MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASURE OF Abstract: In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We developed the PERMA-Profiler as a brief measure of PERMA. We first compiled hundreds of theoretically relevant items. Three studies (N = 7,188) reduced, tested, and refined items, resulting in a final set of 15 MEASURING FLOURISHING: THE IMPACT OF OPERATIONAL The epidemiology of flourishing is an important research topic prompting international interest in its psychometric assessment. But the need to measure human feelings and functioning at the population level has resulted in the creation of a multitude of different conceptual frameworks of flourishing: a term now commonly used to describe high levels of subjective wellbeing. JOB SECURITY AND THE PROMOTION OF WORKERS’ WELLBEING IN Background: Due to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, workplaces have had to make significant alterations in the way they conduct business. This, in addition to the current financial instability, may put workers at risk of experiencing job insecurity and, in turn, lower wellbeing. Job insecurity is a key determinant of wellbeing, but little is known on how it is impacted by public THE PERMA-PROFILER: A BRIEF MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASURE OF Abstract: In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We developed the PERMA-Profiler as a brief measure of PERMA. We first compiled hundreds of theoretically relevant items. Three studies (N = 7,188) reduced, tested, and refined items, resulting in a final set of 15 THE BENEFIT MINDSET: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTRIBUTION AND This paper explores the significance of mindset in shaping a future of greater possibility. One’s mindset reflects personally distinguishable attitudes, beliefs and values, which influence one’s ability to learn and lead, and to achieve and contribute. Bringing together two areas of research – a “being well” perspective from positive psychology and a socially and ecologically LEARN IT, LIVE IT, TEACH IT, EMBED IT: IMPLEMENTING A Schools provide unique environments for the implementation of interventions to support the mental health and wellbeing of young people. While promising as an intervention setting, the school system is inherently complex, and any successful intervention or programme must account for, and adapt to, such complexity. Whole-school approaches that comprise multi-components and promote CENTRAL PARK: NATURE, CONTEXT, AND HUMAN WELLBEING This paper considers evidence that social and physical contexts, particularly natural environments, are surprisingly important for human wellbeing. In particular, the pursuit of happiness seems to be less a matter of individual choice than is commonly supposed. These ideas are explored through an examination of New York’s Central
Park.
THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO MEASURE THE Empirical research on employee job crafting is scarce, probably because until recently scales with which the construct can be reliably and validly measured were not available. Although a general scale has recently been developed, the cognitive component of job crafting was omitted. The aim of the present study was to address this gap by developing and validating the 15-item Job Crafting RESILIENCE IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS: A REVIEW OF RECENT All health professions face numerous stressors within their clinical practice, including time pressures, workload, multiple roles and emotional issues. Frequent workplace stress can impact on the physical and mental wellbeing of health professionals and result in burnout and, in some cases, traumatic stress-like symptoms. These outcomes can impact not only on the wellbeing of health EMBODIED FORTITUDE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FINNISH About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. VIEW OF THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO Return to Article Details The Job Crafting Questionnaire: A new scale to measure the extent to which employees engage in job crafting. Download Download PDF Download PDF CROSS-NATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN HAPPINESS: CULTURAL The number of cross-national research studies on happiness is soaring, but doubts about the comparability of happiness between countries remain. One source of doubt is the possibility of cultural measurement bias. Another source of doubt is in the theory that happiness is culturally relative. These qualms were checked using the available data on differences in average happiness across INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WELLBEINGHOMEABOUTLATEST ISSUEARCHIVESSUBMISSIONSIJW NEWSROOM About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. VOL. 10 NO. 5 (2020): CREATIVITY AND WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. THE CHALLENGE OF DEFINING WELLBEING Wellbeing is a growing area of research, yet the question of how it should be defined remains unanswered. This multi-disciplinary review explores past attempts to define wellbeing and provides an overview of the main theoretical perspectives, from the work of Aristotle to the present day. The article argues that many attempts at expressing its nature have focused purely on dimensions of THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILD WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. THE PERMA-PROFILER: A BRIEF MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASURE OF Abstract: In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We developed the PERMA-Profiler as a brief measure of PERMA. We first compiled hundreds of theoretically relevant items. Three studies (N = 7,188) reduced, tested, and refined items, resulting in a final set of 15 THE BENEFIT MINDSET: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTRIBUTION AND This paper explores the significance of mindset in shaping a future of greater possibility. One’s mindset reflects personally distinguishable attitudes, beliefs and values, which influence one’s ability to learn and lead, and to achieve and contribute. Bringing together two areas of research – a “being well” perspective from positive psychology and a socially and ecologically MINDFULNESS, MENTAL HEALTH AND EMOTION REGULATION AMONG Few studies have been conducted to examine the relationship between mindfulness training and emotion regulation at work. This study reports results from a semi-randomized controlled trial of a brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) (Grégoire & Lachance, 2015) delivered in audio format. A pretest-posttest switching-replication design was used to assess changes in mindfulness, mental MEASURING FLOURISHING: THE IMPACT OF OPERATIONAL The epidemiology of flourishing is an important research topic prompting international interest in its psychometric assessment. But the need to measure human feelings and functioning at the population level has resulted in the creation of a multitude of different conceptual frameworks of flourishing: a term now commonly used to describe high levels of subjective wellbeing. VIEW OF THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO Return to Article Details The Job Crafting Questionnaire: A new scale to measure the extent to which employees engage in job crafting. Download Download PDF Download PDF THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO MEASURE THE Empirical research on employee job crafting is scarce, probably because until recently scales with which the construct can be reliably and validly measured were not available. Although a general scale has recently been developed, the cognitive component of job crafting was omitted. The aim of the present study was to address this gap by developing and validating the 15-item Job Crafting INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WELLBEINGHOMEABOUTLATEST ISSUEARCHIVESSUBMISSIONSIJW NEWSROOM About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. VOL. 10 NO. 5 (2020): CREATIVITY AND WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. THE CHALLENGE OF DEFINING WELLBEING Wellbeing is a growing area of research, yet the question of how it should be defined remains unanswered. This multi-disciplinary review explores past attempts to define wellbeing and provides an overview of the main theoretical perspectives, from the work of Aristotle to the present day. The article argues that many attempts at expressing its nature have focused purely on dimensions of THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILD WELLBEING About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. THE PERMA-PROFILER: A BRIEF MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASURE OF Abstract: In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We developed the PERMA-Profiler as a brief measure of PERMA. We first compiled hundreds of theoretically relevant items. Three studies (N = 7,188) reduced, tested, and refined items, resulting in a final set of 15 THE BENEFIT MINDSET: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTRIBUTION AND This paper explores the significance of mindset in shaping a future of greater possibility. One’s mindset reflects personally distinguishable attitudes, beliefs and values, which influence one’s ability to learn and lead, and to achieve and contribute. Bringing together two areas of research – a “being well” perspective from positive psychology and a socially and ecologically MINDFULNESS, MENTAL HEALTH AND EMOTION REGULATION AMONG Few studies have been conducted to examine the relationship between mindfulness training and emotion regulation at work. This study reports results from a semi-randomized controlled trial of a brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) (Grégoire & Lachance, 2015) delivered in audio format. A pretest-posttest switching-replication design was used to assess changes in mindfulness, mental MEASURING FLOURISHING: THE IMPACT OF OPERATIONAL The epidemiology of flourishing is an important research topic prompting international interest in its psychometric assessment. But the need to measure human feelings and functioning at the population level has resulted in the creation of a multitude of different conceptual frameworks of flourishing: a term now commonly used to describe high levels of subjective wellbeing. VIEW OF THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO Return to Article Details The Job Crafting Questionnaire: A new scale to measure the extent to which employees engage in job crafting. Download Download PDF Download PDF THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO MEASURE THE Empirical research on employee job crafting is scarce, probably because until recently scales with which the construct can be reliably and validly measured were not available. Although a general scale has recently been developed, the cognitive component of job crafting was omitted. The aim of the present study was to address this gap by developing and validating the 15-item Job Crafting ABOUT THE JOURNAL
About the journal. The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing. All content is free for everyone to access, and there are no submission or publication fees for authors. The IJW welcomes timely original high-quality scholarly articles of appropriate length on the topic of wellbeing, broadly construed. THE PERMA-PROFILER: A BRIEF MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASURE OF Abstract: In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We developed the PERMA-Profiler as a brief measure of PERMA. We first compiled hundreds of theoretically relevant items. Three studies (N = 7,188) reduced, tested, and refined items, resulting in a final set of 15 MINDFULNESS, MENTAL HEALTH AND EMOTION REGULATION AMONG Few studies have been conducted to examine the relationship between mindfulness training and emotion regulation at work. This study reports results from a semi-randomized controlled trial of a brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) (Grégoire & Lachance, 2015) delivered in audio format. A pretest-posttest switching-replication design was used to assess changes in mindfulness, mental THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO MEASURE THE Empirical research on employee job crafting is scarce, probably because until recently scales with which the construct can be reliably and validly measured were not available. Although a general scale has recently been developed, the cognitive component of job crafting was omitted. The aim of the present study was to address this gap by developing and validating the 15-item Job Crafting VIEW OF THE JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW SCALE TO Return to Article Details The Job Crafting Questionnaire: A new scale to measure the extent to which employees engage in job crafting. Download Download PDF Download PDF MINDFULNESS MEDITATION AND CURIOSITY: THE CONTRIBUTING Actual/ideal self-discrepancy has been defined as the measurable difference between an individual’s beliefs about who they think they are (actual self) and their image of the person they would ideally like to be (ideal self). Mindfulness meditation, by means of greater awareness of the continuous fluctuation of thought from one point to another, has been shown to increase self-acceptance WHEN YOU ASK THE FISH: CHILD WELLBEING THROUGH THE EYES OF Child wellbeing is the subject of substantial academic and policy interest globally and in New Zealand. Notably however, the voices of children are largely missing in much of the extended literature. In addition, and largely due to an assumption that wellbeing is a universally held construct, the influence of cultural values and beliefs on the perceptions and experiences of wellbeing of BETWEEN THE CROWD AND THE BAND: PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE In some musical genres, professional performers play live shows many times a week. Arduous touring schedules bring encounters with wildly diverse audiences across many different performance ecologies. We investigate the kinds of creativity involved in such repeated live performance, kinds of creativity that are quite unlike songwriting and recording, and examine the central factors that SELF-REGULATION CAPACITY IS LINKED TO WELLBEING AND Self-regulation capacity relates to important self-help skills allowing individuals to effectively manage their thoughts, feelings, and actions to attain goals while mastering a demanding environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self- regulation capacity, psychological wellbeing, and burnout in 37 Canadian medical students and 25 physicians. FLOURISHING IN NATURE: A REVIEW OF THE BENEFITS OF From the increasing number of people living in urban areas to the continued degradation of the natural environment, many of us appear to be physically and psychologically disconnected from nature. We consider the theoretical explanations and present evidence for why this state of affairs might result in suboptimal levels of hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing by reviewing the large body of Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to announcements Skip to the current issue Skip to site footer Open Menu
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