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De, Sanjay. "Happiness and monetary factors." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1445.
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Hu, Zimu. "Chinese Happiness Index and Its Influencing Factors Analysis." Thesis, KTH, Samhällsekonomi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-93688.
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In recent decades, economists are gradually showing their interests in the study of happiness. They even put forward some challenges to the traditional theories. In contrast, studies on Chinese happiness problem are not enough in terms of breadth and depth. This paper used the data provided by China General Social Survey to conduct an empirical analysis. The model author adopted is Ordered Discrete Choice model. In the empirical section, author analyzed the impact of income, macroeconomic variables, etc. Ultimately, based on the empirical results, author proposed some policy recommendations and further study suggestions.
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Skyum, Cecilia. "Förskolebarn upplevelser av lycka : Kopplat till ICF-CYs klassifikation av barns hälsa." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-30894.
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Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur lycka upplevs av förskolebarn. Individuella intervjuer gjordes med 26 förskolebarn (73% pojkar) mellan 4 och 5 år, med hjälp av en semistrukturerad intervjuguide. Tidigare forskning har visat på att lycka har många delar så som kärlek, välbefinnande, tillfredställelse, god hälsa och att lycka skulle kunna vara något större så som meningen med livet. Materialet analyserades med stöd av ICF-CY och resultatet visade att barn upplevde lycka när de kände sig delaktiga i ett sammanhang. Omgivningsfaktorer, så som att barnen fick något av materiell karaktär samt familjekontexten har också betydelse om barn känner sig lyckliga. Barn ville känna sig delaktiga, ha en stabil omgivning och kärleksfulla nära relationer. Denna studie bidrar till att belysa barns egen uppfattning av just begreppet lycka samt ger kunskap som bidrar till att kunna upprätthålla barns chans att få känna lycka. Vidare forskning skulle vara att undersöka om olika personlighets typer har olika uppfattning om lycka.
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Cheru, Tesfaye Gudeta. "Assessment of job satisfaction amongst physicians working in Public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia." University of the Western Cape, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8220.
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Magister Public Health - MPH<br>Introduction
The Human Resource Strategic Plan of the Ethiopian Ministry of Health lists current health workforce problems as a high attrition rate among public service physicians, poor human resource management, non-conducive working conditions and high workloads. In Addis Ababa's
public hospitals, the turnover of physicians is high and - as repeatedly and informally reported by hospital managers - the presence of the contributory factors listed above are also anecdotally thought to be present. These factors present a serious challenge to the delivery of high quality health care services and their presence indicates that the job satisfaction of physicians is likely to be low. However, factors responsible for job dissatisfaction among physicians and their implications for staff turnover have not been studied or documented in the context of Ethiopia's health system. It was this scenario that motivated the researcher to conduct this study in order to assist policy makers in taking appropriate actions, if and as required. Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the level of job satisfaction, the factors influencing job
satisfaction and the consequences of job satisfaction among physicians in public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Objectives: • To describe the job satisfaction levels of physicians in public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia • To identify factors affecting the job satisfaction levels of physicians • To assess possible consequences linked to physicians' job satisfaction levels. A self-administered questionnaire was used to measure job satisfaction, composed of 65 individual variables grouped within 13 dimensions and adapted to the Ethiopian context from the
Job Descriptive Index and the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire. An additional questionnaire was used to assess socio-demographic variables and the possible consequences of low job satisfaction. Analysis: A composite job satisfaction score was obtained by summing the individual answers for each of the variables to assess overall job satisfaction. Bivariate analysis was undertaken, using 2X2 tables (with 95% confidence intervals) to calculate the prevalence ratio for each of the potential causes and consequences of low job satisfaction, using the composite score cut-off levels of job satisfaction. Multivariate analysis was undertaken to obtain the adjusted prevalence odds ratios
for both the potential causes and consequences of low job satisfaction, using multiple logistic regression analysis.
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Gao, Yongliang. "An investigation of rural migrants' happiness status in Changsha city : A trial of social urban planning in China's second-tier cities." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-271194.
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China has among the world’s fastest growing urban region and faced enormous environmental and social challenges that requires a forward thinking of urban planning, which integrates environmental sustainability and social equity into urban resilience. In China, national and provincial urban policies have long focused on economic and industrial developments, whereas social welfare was not account for urban planning until very recently. After decades of rapid socioeconomic development, China has now entered an urbanization stage at which social development becomes as urgent as economic and environmental transformation. Rural migrant as a lower social group is a product of China’s rigorous rural-urban household registration (Hukou) that has caused plenty of social tragedies. Although governmental authorities have vowed to elevate rural migrants’ social status, as a heterogeneous social group, rural migrants received very little research attention by far. To examine rural migrants’ demographic information and their social status, this research employs happiness as a theme to carry out a questionnaire survey. In total, 1,267 responses were collected at bus and train stations in Changsha, a second-tier city located in the middle of China. According to the survey, rural migrants’ happiness status is in close relation with some demographic characteristics such as gender, ethnicity and education. In general, men are unhappier than women; the ethnic minorities are unhappier than the ethnic majority-Han; and the highly educated are unhappier than those with lower educational attainment. By performing a stepwise regression, statistics uncover that rural migrants’ happiness status in Changsha is positively associated with a stable income, a job with insurance and a well sustained family tie. Based on the study results, I propose three suggestions for social urban planning in China’s second-tier cities: (1) to set up a commercial district that embraces diverse ethnic groups, where the minor ethnic rural migrants can work and live with their own cultures. (2) To gather rural migrants by industry and establish labour unions that can represent for rural migrants’ interests. (3) To maintain the discriminated Hukou system, but define Hukou identity based on rural migrants’ taxation conditions. Keywords: rural migrants, demographic characteristics, happiness factors, social urban planning
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Parkinson, Lisa Michiko. "Prospective First-Generation College Racial Minority Students: Mediating Factors that Facilitate Positive Educational Characteristics for College Admission." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6043.
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First-generation college (FGC) students represent a small portion of the population of students on college campuses across the nation. Racial minority students are also highly underrepresented at four-year institutions. When one combines FGC students who are also racial minorities, they comprise an even smaller subgroup of students attending four-year college campuses. Research conducted to evaluate how FGC students perform their first year in college is prevalent. Additionally, research has been completed on factors that help predict a high school student's admission into and performance in college. However, very little research exists about factors identified in high school that may help strengthen a prospective FGC, racial minority, and high school student's admission into college. This study will utilize the RELATE questionnaire to evaluate individual characteristics or circumstances identified in prospective first-generation college racial minority students that may be potentially mediated for by high school counselors or college administrators to help strengthen college or university admission. Counselors or advisors could have an impact on improving the likelihood of college or university admission for this population by facilitating the process of coming to terms with family stressors and/or strengthening their flexibility or adaptability to new or different environments, learning, and people. Since the RELATE database does not include direct data regarding college admission, positive student educational characteristics such as sociability, calmness, organization, maturity, and happiness will be utilized to represent potential stronger preparation for admission into college. RELATE is a questionnaire designed for individuals in a committed relationship and provides important information regarding the individual, the partner, and the relationship. Research with the RELATE questionnaire data is generally utilized in family and social science domains. This study is unique since it accesses the individual instead of couple data for positive educational characteristics and research. This comparative study between prospective first-generation college White students and prospective first-generation college racial minority students is designed to assist educators in secondary and higher educational levels to better prepare prospective FGC students, particularly prospective FGC racial minority students, for college admission. Also, this study will distinguish between various characteristics that may assist college recruiters identify prospective FGC students who may be a strong fit for their institutions.
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Kriel, Jeffrey Schalk. "Die interaksie van fisieke aktiwiteit met die onderlinge verbande tussen demografiese faktore, koronêre risiko-indeks en lewensgeluk by NG-predikante / Jeffrey Schalk Kriel." Thesis, North-West University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/667.
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Several studies have already reported that ministers are experiencing high levels of
stress due to career demands, role conflict and personal situations (Roux, 1992:227;
Scholtz, 1996:134; Kellerman, 2000:28). Stress is detrimental to general health and is
the primary reason why ministers leave the ministry (Andrew, 1997:15, Virginia,
1998:50; Swart et al., 2000:339; Bisschoff & Schoeman, 2003:52). Research showed
that regular physical activity and maintaining a good level of physical fitness has
positive effects on physical and psycho-emotional health (Paffenbarger, 1994:860;
Margetts et al., 1999:97; Botha, 200237; Fourie, 2002:7). In this respect, it became
clear that participation in physical activity may decrease the risk of developing coronary
heart disease and other illness through it's likely buffering effect against the negative
effects of stress (Barlow et al., 1990:392; Bouchard & Despres, 1995:270; Stofan et al.,
1998: 1808; Le Roux, 2000:59; Schlebusch, 2000:50).
The objective of this study was firstly to determine interaction of physical activity on the
relationship between coronary risk index and happiness and quality of life of South
African Dutch Reformed ministers. Secondly, to determine the interaction of physical
activity with coronary risk index in respect of years of service, congregation size, co ministership
and congregation type, and thirdly, to study the interaction of physical
activity with happiness and quality of life in respect of the last mentioned demographic
parameters. The subjects were 340 male ministers of the Dutch reformed church, who
volunteered to participate in the study. The quality of participation in physical activity
was determined with Sharkey's (1997:432) physical activity index. The risk of
developing coronary heart disease was determined by Bjurnstrom and Alexiou's
(1978:524-525) coronary risk index assessment, while happiness or quality of life was
measured by using the Affectometer 2 of Kammann and Flett (1983:259).
The mean index of physical activity participation was 33.81 ± 32.30 which could be
classified as fair, although 32.2% of the subjects fell in the low activity group. The
coronary risk index showed that 19.9% of the population indicated a high risk of
developing coronary artery disease, while 48.9% indicated a low level of happiness and
quality of life. Significant (p10.05) relationships between physical activity, coronary risk
index, happiness and quality of life were found among the high activity and low activity
groups. Physical activity indicated a positive effect on the coronary risk index,
independent of happiness and quality of life, as well as years of service, congregation
size, co-ministership and congregation type. Physical activity also indicated a positive
effect on happiness and quality of life, independent of years of service, congregation
size, co-ministership and congregation type. In most cases physical activity also
showed a significant interaction on the relationships between coronary risk index and
years of service, congregation size, co-ministership and congregation type, as well as
on the relationships between happiness and quality of life and the last mentioned
demographic parameters.
This study indicated that the ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church who participated
in this study operated in a danger zone regarding their happiness and quality of life.
Physical activity can be regarded as a salutogenic and preventative modality on the
interaction of physical activity among the relationships between demographic factors,
coronary risk index, happiness and quality of life of Dutch Reformed ministers. It was
also concluded that physical activity can be regarded as a salutogenic modality in the
physical and psychological wellness of South African ministers of religion.<br>Thesis (Ph.D. (Human Movement Science))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.
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Gimeno, Navarro Miguel Ángel. "Integración de los factores psicosociales de la salud laboral: propuesta de una visión configuracional." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/399175.
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La felicidad, el bienestar, el malestar y la salud son factores esenciales del ser humano. Su análisis nos muestra que vivimos en un modelo
social -Globalismo capitalista de hlperconsumo- tóxico. En el ámbito de la salud laboral -desde una concepción interaccionista-sistémica· se
defiende la importancia de eliminar la función precarizadora de las organizaciones y convertirlas en 'activos de salud'. Una vía para lograrlo
está en los 'emergentes' factores psicosociales. Éstos han evolucionado (en cuanto a su contenido, su marco de actuación, y al sujeto de su
acción). Su estudio nos permite establecer una taxonomía de Configuraciones psicosociales de las organizaciones.
Los resultados obtenidos muestran que la acción sobre los factores psicosociales es diferente a la realizada con otros factores (higiénicos,
ergonómicos, de seguridad). Las conclusiones sirven de guía para la realización de programas de prevención de riesgos y de promoción de la
salud en las organizaciones; y de cambio social.<br>Happiness, well-being, malaise and health are essential attractions of the human being. His analysis shows that we live in a toxic social model
-Globalism capitalist of hyperconsumption. In the field of occupational health -from an interactionist-systemlc view - the importance of
ellminating the precarious function of organizations and making them 'health assets' is defended. One way to achieve t his is in the 'emerging'
psychosocial factors. They have evolved (In terms of their content, their framework of action, and the subject of their action). Their study
allows us to establish a taxonomy of Psychosocial configurations of organizations.
The results show that the action on the psychosocial factors Is different from that made with other factors (hygienic, ergonomic, safety). The
conclusions guide the implementation of risk prevention and health promotion programs in organizations; and social change.
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ERIC, AIDOO, and ZHENG SAIJING. "HAPPINESS INDEXTHE CONSTRUCTION AND ANALYSIS." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Statistik, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-4853.
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This study aims to investigate the important indicators that contribute to happiness among Beijing residence. The residents of Beijing were taken as the target population for the survey. A questionnaire was used as the main statistical instrument to collect the data from the residents in Beijing. In so doing the investigation employs Factor analyses and chi-square analyses as the main statistical tools used for the analyses in this research. The study found that Beijing residents gained greater happiness in the family, interpersonal relationships, and health status. The analysis also shows that generally, the residence of Beijing feels happier and also in terms of gender basis, females in Beijing feel happier as compare to their male counterpart. It will find that gender, age and education are statistically significant when dealing with happiness.
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Svensson, Oskar. "Att gråta i en Jaguar : en sambandsstudie mellan upplevd hälsa och faktorerna inkomst, utbildning samt civilstånd hos äldre." Thesis, Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH, Institutionen för idrotts- och hälsovetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-3139.
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Syfte Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka samband mellan utbildning, civilstånd och inkomst gentemot upplevd fysisk och psykisk hälsa. Metod Undersökningen är en kvantitativ enkätstudie där totalt 525 individer ingick framförallt från Lidingö, Täby, Haninge, Östermalm och Solna. Åldern på individerna varierade mellan 37 och 89 år och medelåldern var 70,3 år (± 6,6), där cirka en tredjedel var män och två tredjedelar kvinnor. Samtliga har fått besvara frågor med fasta svarsalternativ kring deras upplevda fysiska (kroppslig) samt psykiska (själslig) hälsa och faktorerna inkomst, civilstånd samt utbildningsnivå. Därefter analyserades resultaten för att finna eventuella samvariationer mellan den upplevda hälsan och de specifika faktorerna. Samtliga deltagare har själva ansökt om att få vara med i ett projekt kring hälsa i Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolans regi. Resultat Signifikanta samvariationer fanns mellan upplevd fysisk och psykisk hälsa samt civilstånd där hög hälsa korrelerade med att leva i ett förhållande. I förhållande till inkomstnivå fanns tendenser till samband (dock utan signifikans) där en viss ökning av den upplevda fysiska samt psykiska hälsan noterades för varje inkomstintervall (låg, medel och hög), i synnerhet gentemot den psykiska hälsan. Utbildningsfaktorn visade inga signifikanta samband med grad av upplevd hälsa bland deltagarna. Slutsats Studiens hypotes om en positiv samvariation mellan den upplevda hälsan och samtliga tre livsfaktorer visade sig inte stämma fullt ut för denna grupp med företrädesvis äldre. Den faktor som signifikant korrelerade med upplevd hälsa var civilstånd. Även inkomst visade sig ha tendensen (dock ej signifikant) till ett visst samband med de skattade hälsoparametrarna för den undersökta gruppen. Det är möjligt, med använda arbetsmetoder, att starkare samband skulle fås fram på ett mer slumpmässigt urval av befolkningen. Studien ställer jämväl nya frågor om huruvida sambandet för undersökta faktorer i förhållande till upplevd hälsa eventuellt skiljer sig för olika åldersgrupper.
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Chang, Pei-Chi, and 張珮琦. "demographic factors affecting happiness and the relations between happiness, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intention." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tz3pze.
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碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>人力資源管理研究所<br>96<br>The present study adopted the perspective of occupational health psychology, to explore demographic factors affecting happiness and the relations between happiness, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intention.
Two databases were used: the Chinese Happiness Inventory (CHI) Project and the 2005 Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSCS). Both contain large scale, national samples.
Results showed that females were happier than males, and younger people were happier than their older counterparts. Those who were currently married or single were both happier than those who were widowed or divorced. Highly educated people were happier than those who were less educated, and people with higher income were happier than those with lower income.
Regression analyses were used to predict work-related variables, while controlling for the above demographic variables. Results showed that happiness significantly predicted job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intention. In other words, the happier the employees, the more likely that they were satisfied with their jobs, more committed to their organizations, and less likely that they would consider leaving the job. Among demographic variables, age and income were important predictors of work-related variables. Older employees, compared to younger ones, had higher organizational commitment and lower turnover intention. Employees with higher income enjoyed higher job satisfaction.
Finally, competing causality models linking happiness and work-related variables were tested using the structural modeling technique. Results revealed that on the one hand, happiness led to higher job satisfaction and organizational commitment; on the other hand, higher job satisfaction fed back to higher happiness. Thus, these focal relations are likely to be reciprocal. The present study provided supporting evidence to the claim that employees’ happiness will not only affect their own welfare, but also have important effects on organization relevant outcomes.
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Shiu, Jr-Yu, and 許芷瑜. "A study of the factors in Taiwan residents' happiness." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68426841857778873373.
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碩士<br>國立臺北大學<br>統計學系<br>101<br>The activities people engage in are derived from the desire of happiness. To understand the factors impact Taiwan residents’ happiness, this research uses the data of happiness collected from the Taiwan residents born in 1935 to 1980 (27 to 72 year-old) through questionnaire survey of 2007 in Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD). The impacts of basic personal status, marriage and spouse, family and economic, and living conditions on happiness index are discussed. Furthermore, proportional odds model is built to investigate impact on the happiness index.
Findings from the one-to-one comparison between happiness and individual factors show that followings have higher degree of happiness: female, cohabiting and married (including remarriage) people, spouse with higher education, Taipei City, Yilan County, Hualien County and Taitung County residents, better health status of individual, spouse and parents, higher satisfaction of job and family life; people living with others are happier than those living alone, but those living with parents are contrarily unhappier; living with their spouse or their spouse’s parents; higher individual, spouse and family monthly income.
Findings from the proportional odds model show that female are happier; in marital status, unmarried people are happier; Yilan County, Hualien County and Taitung County residents are happier than other regions; better health status of individual, spouse or father are happier; satisfaction of job and family life are directly proportional to the degree of happiness; the degree of happiness tends to increase through age and family monthly income; cohabiting, married (including remarriage), living with their spouse or their spouse’s parents are happier.
In gender difference, male living in Yilan County, Hualien County and Taitung County are happier, and females living in Kaohsiung County, Kaohsiung City and Pingtung County are happier. Male's happiness is influenced by working conditions (including employment or not, working hours, income and job satisfaction), family and economic status. Female’s happiness is affected by marital status (happier if single) and living conditions (whether living with spouse, or spouse's parents).
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WU, HSIN-RONG, and 吳欣蓉. "The Impact of Political and Economic Factors on Happiness." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ve7v9q.
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碩士<br>逢甲大學<br>財稅學系<br>107<br>This study investigates the relationship between economic freedom, income inequality, and happiness in 92 and 74 countries during 2015-2016. For different dimensions, all the sample classified into two categories, one is developed and developing countries, the other one is free, partly free, and not free countries. Use the “happiness index” from World Happiness Report, the index of “size of government”, “legal system and property rights”, “sound money”, “freedom to trade international”, and “freedom from regulation” computed by Fraser Institute, and the “gini coefficient” related to the income inequality to do the cross-section analysis.
The quantile regression indicated that legal system and property rights is an important factor, has a positive and significant impact on happiness. Especially find the freedom to trade international and freedom from regulation have opposite direction impact on happiness in the developed and developing countries. In developed countries, freedom to trade international has a negative and significant impact on happiness and freedom from regulation has a positive and significant impact on happiness. Conversely, in developing countries, freedom to trade international has a positive and significant impact on happiness and freedom from regulation has a negative and significant impact on happiness.
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Wu, Chiung-Hua, and 吳瓊華. "The Influencial Factors of In-service Graduated Students' Happiness." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01767825859292988961.
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碩士<br>台南科技大學<br>生活應用科學研究所<br>97<br>This study aims to study the influential factors of happiness of in-service graduated students in South Taiwan, especially the relationship between family support, role conflict and happiness. Research purposes included understanding and exploring the relationship between the demographic factor to family support, role conflict and happiness; understanding and exploring the influence of the family factor to family support, role conflict and happiness; understanding and exploring the relationship between family support, role conflict and happiness. In this research, cluster sampling survey was used to collect the data from 550 in-service graduated students. Two-Way ANOVA was applied as the main method for data analysis. The findings show as follows：
1. There were significant differences between happiness and demographic and family factors in different income levels and different family structure. Students at lower personal or family income levels earned more happiness than those who at higher income levels. Moreover, students who lived in the form of nuclear family structure earned more happiness than those who lived in the form of extension family structure.
2. There were significant differences between happiness and the interaction effect of gender, family and demographic factors. Female students at age over 51 earned more ‘positive emotion’ than male students at the same age; Students’ wives with high school education level earned more happiness than those wives who had master degrees.
3. There were significant differences between role conflict and the family and demographic factors. Students with lower personal incomes or family incomes faced more role conflicts than students with higher incomes. As well, there were significant differences between role conflict and the interaction effect of gender, family and demographic factors. Married female students faced more role conflicts than married male ones.
4. There were significant differences between family supports and the interaction effect of gender, family and demographic factors. Male students with family supports earned more happiness than female students. Research also showed that higher family support help students to overcome their role conflicts. As the result, students who had higher family supports earned more happiness.
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Chen, Chia-Chen, and 陳嘉真. "Happiness and its Related Factors among Postpartum Women with Breastfeeding." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34718226845148482042.
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碩士<br>高雄醫學大學<br>護理學研究所<br>100<br>The study was to explore the happiness and its related factors in postpartum breastfeeding mothers. A cross-sectional correlational design with convenience sampling from a gynecology and pediatrics hospital in southern Taiwan was used. Structured questionnaires were used to collect data from breastfeeding mothers who had no mother-infant comorbidities within the first month postpartum. Instruments included a demographic sheet, the Perceived Stress Scale, the Social Support Scale, and the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire short-form. A total of 203 valid questionnaires were returned. Using the JMP9 statistical software, the obtained data were analyzed by frequency distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, and stepwise multiple regression.
The results indicated as follows: (1) there were statistically significant differences in happiness with respect to educational level, marital status, and occupation of postpartum breastfeeding mothers, (2) the happiness scale was negatively correlated with the Perceived Stress Scale, but positively correlated with the Social Support Scale, and (3) marital status, perceived stress, and social support were important predictors of quality of life in postpartum breastfeeding mothers, which explained 54.25% of the total variance. The social support was the most important predictor.
The study results could not only help clinical professional nursing staff further understand the quality of life in postpartum breastfeeding mothers but also facilitate them in providing assessment and care with timeliness and appropriateness to further improve the quality of life in women.
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TU, YA-WEN, and 杜雅雯. "A Research on Key Factors of Authentic Happiness Brand Image." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96474a.
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博士<br>國立雲林科技大學<br>設計學研究所<br>107<br>In an increasingly competitive market, brand images must satisfy the spiritual needs of customers to earn their loyalty. Various philosophies and religions throughout human history have emphasized a sense of happiness. In Taiwan, the Directorate General of Budget also publishes an annual report on the happiness of Taiwanese citizens. Happiness is a life goal pursued by people worldwide and has a substantial effect on society and the economy. As an emotional marketing strategy used to create brand differentiation, happiness was a key factor that influences brand image.
This study was divided into 4 phases. In the first phase, based on positive psychology and a literature review, it constructs a scale of happiness brand image according to the Modified Delphi Method. In the research process, it obtains four evaluation dimensions and 21 strategic indicators. In the second phase, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to rank the indicator strategy decision-making of items of the happiness brand image scale in order to recognize key factors of happiness brand image. The results indicated that the top factors regarding brand images were “intention of brand image to commit to and participate in Corporate Social Responsibility,” “environment friendly,” “brand image shows an impact on society,” “brand image is meaningful and shows goals for society”, and “brand image results in aesthetic affection”. In the third phase, analysis of the subjects by cluster analysis, and are classified into 4 types of consumer. In the final phase, based on the happiness brand image scale constructed in this study is used to measure the tea shop brands in Taiwan, and to check the practicality of the happiness brand image scale.
By construction of the scale, strategy indicators of happiness brand image and 4 different types of consumers, this study argues that the originally-abstract concept of happiness can serve as a reference and provide a research contribution to academic and practical fields.
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Lai, Cheng-yen, and 賴丞彥. "A study on factors of employee happiness in social enterprise." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20547302295409921700.
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碩士<br>國立中山大學<br>公共事務管理研究所<br>103<br>Social enterprise, regarded as happiness economy, is a state of organization accompanying with socially general happiness through solving social problems. The main reason social enterprise is called happiness is social enterprise pays attention to social targets and commercial targets simultaneously. However, there are some running problems because dual targets are considered. Do such problems make employees unhappy？ Or employees could make themselves happy while bring happiness to others. Such problems are what this research concerns about.
Through questionnaire and interview, we inquire the subjective happy scale of employees, and other influencing factors such as social capital and job satisfaction. Besides comprehending if employees are happy, I am anxious to realize what the happiness-influencing factors are. By clarifying the influencing factors above, I hope to issue virtual results in order to contribute to the development on social enterprise.
The research divides not only social capital into social network, social trust, altruism and social value but also job satisfaction into incentive factors and hygiene factors. Putting factors mentioned above into Pearson Correlation Analysis on subjective happiness of employees in social enterprise, we found out that there is a positive correlation between subjective happiness and social network, social trust, altruism, social value, job satisfaction, incentive factors and hygiene factors. The result shows that the higher the social capital is, the higher, the scale of subjective happiness is, and vice versa. But there is undifference between subjective happiness on enterprise and ONE WAY ANOVA of control group of general enterprise. During interview, interviewees indicate they still feel happy while working in social enterprise even in difficulty.
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Chao, shaohua, and 趙少華. "Empirical Research Of The Major Factors Of Happiness Of The Taiwanese." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14546723224878058852.
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TSOU, CHUEH-CHENG, and 鄒爵丞. "The Investigation of Special Educators' Happiness and Related Factors in Elementary Schools." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02437693219081897118.
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碩士<br>中原大學<br>特殊教育研究所<br>97<br>The purpose of this research was to investigate the happiness of special educators in elementary schools and its related factors. The subjects were 232 elementary school special educators, and a self-developed questionnaire was used to collect data. Descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, and regression analysis were used to process and analyze. The conclusions were as follows:
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The happiness of special educators was in over-average degree.
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With different background, there were no significant differences in educators’ happiness, but only in variables of educators’ gender, age, birth sequence, and academic background.
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There were positive correlations between special educators’ happiness and leisure satisfaction, as well as the satisfaction of the school team, personality, and social support.
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The variables of age, birth sequence, academic background, leisure satisfaction, the satisfaction of the school team made no significant differences in special educators’ happiness; however, personality and social support could be used to forecast the happiness.
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Tu, Hsu-Chin, and 杜姁瑾. "The Correlation Among Betel Quid Addiction and Related Factors, Anxiety and Happiness." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43140841083919040997.
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碩士<br>高雄醫學大學<br>公共衛生學研究所<br>100<br>Background
Betel quid is the fourth psychoactive substance in the world. Though many studies indicated that betel quid is harmful to health, the prevalence of betel quid is still high. The tolerance and addiction of betel quid was not so clear , so that we would like to know the factors affecting betel disorder and the relationship between anxiety and happiness in the present study. Furthermore, we suggest that chewers should change the habit of chewing betel quid to promote both physical and mental health.
Purpose
1. DSM-IV and DSM-V diagnose criteria was used to assess the disorder of betel quid chewing.
2. The factors related to betel quid disorder were analyzed.
3. The association among anxious, happiness, and betel quid disorder were explored.
Material and methods
The total sample number is 205 and the response rate was 59.9%.We used Probability Proportionate to Size Sampling to select the sample of our study and focus on chewers in Kaohsiung City in Taiwan. The participants were interviewed , using a well structured questionnaire .
Results
The average age of our sample is 42.95 years old. The chewers who are betel disorder relating to male , older age , lower or moderate education ,and married. The high risky factors relating betel chewers are chewing betel quid with lime and leaf (aOR＝4.4) , chewing higher quantity of betel quids (aOR＝1.1) , chewing betel quid in earlier time (aOR＝0.9-0.91), chewing for longer period(aOR＝1.07-1.1). Chewers who addict to alcohol (aOR＝4.8-7.5)and cigarette (aOR＝2.6-4.6) are related to betel quid disorder. While anxious does not related to betel disorder . The scores on the BAI are low in the betel quid chewers. The scores on happiness of moderate betel disorders is higher than severe betel disorders does.
Conclusions
We found that betel disorder is related to specific demographic factors and chewing characteristics. Furthermore , there is commodity between betel quids, cigarettes , and alcohol disorder. Though the betel disorders do not have high anxiety , the happiness is lower in the sever betel disorders.
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Chen, Ying-An, and 陳盈安. "Dynamic Factors of System Dynamics on Happiness among People in the Nation." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00356018939149243768.
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碩士<br>中華大學<br>科技管理學系碩士班<br>103<br>In recent years, many countries have included the happiness index rating list as an important issue, and Taiwan is no exception. Financial news agency Bloomberg News announced that Taiwan is the world’s fifth happy nation in the world. According to surveys conducted by economists, inflation and unemployment are the two major factors contributing to consumer unhappiness, thus the lower the misery index, the happier the country is. However, a great many people in Taiwan do not seem to agree. Over the years, issues targeting happiness have been discussed through surveys done by government sectors and private institutions. In addition, most thesis papers focus on specific groups and a few factors that have an influence on happiness, lacking integrity and comprehensive research. In this study, based on the viewpoint of system dynamics, three dynamic factors affecting Taiwanese people’s happiness were determined: satisfaction towards environment, degree of satisfaction towards personal needs, and degree of family harmony. From these three dimensions, driving factors were found, and the interacting factors were verified one by one to serve as the direction for the government’s efforts to enhance people’s happiness and the direction of personal efforts:
1. Satisfaction towards living environment: It refers to individuals’ degree of satisfaction towards the surrounding environment and software and hardware, through which eight driving factors were obtained through analysis, namely, traffic convenience, government welfare assistance, degree of all kinds of pollution, security, neighborhood harmony, average living floor area per capita, house prices, and budget constraints.
2. Degree of satisfaction towards personal needs: Personal needs are divided into two parts, through which four driving factors were obtained through analysis, namely, degree of personal efforts, interpersonal relationships, number of persons per household, and personal psychological needs.
3. Degree of family harmony: Whether or not family happiness affects all aspects of individuals’ performance was analyzed to obtain three driving factors, namely personal emotional management skills, family communication, and work load.
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Cheng, Yu, and 成宇. "Effects of Social Factors and Happiness on the Purchase Intention in Social Commerce." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/v2k8cs.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>資訊管理學研究所<br>106<br>More and more modes of E-commerce are emerging due to the fast-growing speed. Specifically, with the combination of the social media, like WeChat, Weibo and Facebook etc., social commerce platform has been gradually receiving more attention by the enterprises. In the past literature, we found that social factors such as social support and relationship quality significantly have positive impact on social commerce intention. Meanwhile, satisfaction and emotion included in the social factors both are the essential components of happiness. And as the fields of marketing and management spread, happiness which is an attitude is found to have significant importance on intention. Therefore, we examined the relationships between social factors (social support and relationship quality), happiness and social commerce intention on WeChat social commerce platform, and we proposed a more complete model.
Our findings reveal that social factors and happiness will positively affect social commerce intention. Besides that, happiness will completely mediate the effect of relationship quality on social commerce intention, and effects of social support on social commerce intention is partially multiple mediated by relationship quality and happiness. The results not only confirm the fitness and robustness of our model, but also explain the importance of happiness and will provide better social commerce strategies for the entrepreneurs in the future business.
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ZFANG, JIA-YU, and 張家瑜. "Exploring and Analyzing the Key Factors of Happiness For Green Brands From Cognitive Psychology." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4effas.
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碩士<br>國立雲林科技大學<br>設計學研究所<br>107<br>The rapid growth and development of the global economy, in addition to natural disasters, is more the destruction of the use of raw materials and packaging, which has seriously damaged the environment, and also caused environmental changes and meteorological anomalies. In recent years, due to the improvement of the social life and knowledge level, under the trend of commodity development and environmental awareness, green consumption is the global driving for sustainable development, and is full of the era of brand consumption, and the concept of green brand has gradually emerged.
Each enterprise begins to build their own brand images by maintaining the green image, which is the uprising trend nowadays, to seize the market share to consolidate good brand image in clients’ mind. By doing so, one can gain a firm foothold in the market; however, when it comes to purchasing products, modern consumers are often affected by the brand image of those enterprises, therefore, their purchase decisions are sometimes changed accordingly. In order to attract consumers and raise the awareness of the public, many companies will pay more attention to their brand images. Therefore, focusing on environmental protection and caring for the Earth become some of the indicators for success. For example, many enterprises make all-out efforts to be attentive towards environmental issues, and emphasize the importance of reducing the use of packaging and the application of natural materials to enhance the enterprises’ brand image.
Therefore, the study aims to discuss well-being, green brands, the correlation between cognitive psychology and brands, current situation of green brands, future trend of enterprises, and related researches about well-being and green brand with the literature review. Then, the study established the cognitive item of consumers’ feelings of well-being for green brand, interviewed the experts on green brands, cognitive psychology and designer, and drafted the questionnaire to conduct the market survey through collecting literatures. Finally, the study used the descriptive statistics, factor analysis, cross analysis for analyzing and generalizing data to find the key factors of well-being of green brands.
Through research to explore the psychological feelings of consumers, find out the important factors that make green brands happy for consumption, and then integrate these characteristics into each brand to promote a friendly bridge between consumers and brands, helping companies to create friendly green brands. The value of psychological identity, while leading the non-green brand on the market to follow up, at the same time to achieve a resonance between the enterprise and the consumer, a good planet, good product market sales.
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Jing-HuaTian and 田靜樺. "Human Action Understanding System based on HAPPINESS Factors with Skeleton Data from RGB-D Sensor." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ncn4rg.
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碩士<br>國立成功大學<br>電機工程學系<br>104<br>The proposed research is different with previous happiness detection, the human action understanding system based on HAPPINESS factors is presented by using human action recognition to interpret happiness. Recognition and understanding of human behavior is a popular research topic and also a challenge in computer vision. With the aid of depth camera, such as Microsoft Kinect v2, information about human posture estimation can be acquired, and is used to form the HAPPINESS Factors Action Dataset, totally 27 actions are included. The proposed system composed of three modules, i.e., posture recognition, action recognition and happiness factors classification, respectively. The proposed system extracts the features of skeleton information for entire body and arms movement. The method of libSVM is then adopted for posture recognition. For action recognition, we applied the Dynamic Time Warping to compare the similarity between two actions. Furthermore, we propose a template selection method to speed up the action comparison, it selects suitable templates among different subjects within the same action, i.e., individual features may come from different subjects, and then selects representative template. Finally, the system classifies the corresponding HAPPINESS factors from the results of posture and action recognition. Experiments were performed on proposed HAPPINESS Factors Action Dataset and the results show that the accuracy of our posture and action recognition is 97.46% and 90.38%, respectively. The proposed method also achieves 96.3% action recognition rate on Kinect Activity Recognition Dataset, which confirm that the recognition accuracy of the proposed method is performing well in both datasets.
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KUNG, HSI-YIN, and 龔昕穎. "Influential Factors of Innovation Adoption and Rejection in Local Governments: A Study of Happiness Safeguarding Station." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bvym39.
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碩士<br>國立臺北大學<br>公共行政暨政策學系<br>104<br>As the change of the times, the local governments are confronting a difficult situation that the gap between the fact and people’s expectations is expanding gradually. Government has a duty which is to maximize the welfare of the people, set good policy and provide appropriate public services. It is the government's responsibility and priority. Therefore, "innovation" has become an effective way to achieve these goals. In 2013, an innovative program “Happiness Safeguarding Station” is initiated by the New Taipei City Government, which starts to cooperate with the four main convenience store enterprises. Hoping to find out more families at high risk by this innovative project and thus to give them the ongoing help and concern. However, this initiative is not completely adopted to the social welfare or education departments in other local governments. In order to understand the exact factors why the aforementioned excellent initiative is successfully adopted or tactfully rejected, this study proposes some questions which are based upon the research motive and research purposes. The main research method is by in-depth interviewing with seven local governments in related administrations and by analyzing the information collected in the interviews.
Following conclusions appear in the aforementioned analysis:
1. Department of social welfare in each county or city government acknowledges that this innovative initiative holds different views. Therefore, their acknowledgement to this innovative initiative is high, while their willingness to introduce is low.
2. The cause leads to adopt this innovative initiative by the New Taipei City Government is as follows: Under the leaders full support, through the policy design to achieve resource integration, and by the significant advertising effect in policy marketing, all of them are the key factors of influencing this adopted innovation on this case.
3. The cause leads to adopt this innovative initiative by other city or county governments is as follows: (1) Leader of agencies support this innovation. (2) Get private donations. (3) 24 hours Convenience store attracts department of adopting innovation. (4) Managements facilitate communication and collaboration of cross-departments.
4. The cause leads to the failure of the introduction of this innovative initiative by city or county governments is as follows: (1) Financial difficulty of local government and private donations don’t seem to attract easily. (2) Stubbornness is difficult to change. (3) Lack of powerful support from the management. (4) The effect of innovation in the New Taipei City isn’t convincing.
Last but not least, the author proposes three policy suggestions to affect the innovation adoption by local governments positively.
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Bringle, Joshua R. "Factors contributing to life satisfaction in early and middle adulthood : a 34-year follow-up." 2003. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/2397.
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Chan, Yi-Lin, and 詹怡琳. "Exploring the Factors of Happiness with AHP ─A case Study of The Teachers in National ChangHua Senior School of Commerce." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82gsg8.
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碩士<br>國立彰化師範大學<br>財務金融技術學系<br>105<br>This study aims to understand the important factors that affect the happiness of vocational high school teachers. In this study, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used. The subjects of study are current teachers of National ChangHua Senior school of Commerce. The research tool used in this study is the "Higher Vocational Education Teachers happiness and weight index questionnaire."
A total of 10 questionnaires were issued, returning 10 valid questionnaires. The recovery rate is 100%. The consistency ratio C.R. values of the study were less than 0.1, showing good consistency of the questionnaire respondents.
The results of the study are:
1. The main factors that affect the happiness of vocational high school teachers are physical health, sense of security, and emotional pleasure.
2. Family life is an important dimension of the happiness of the study subjects.
3. Except for teachers with 6-10 years of teaching experience, all the other groups of teachers rank "sense of security" as their top three sources of happiness in the dimension of family life.
4. The "enthusiasm" in the family life aspect is ranked as one of the top three sources of happiness for teachers with 0 to 15 years of teaching experience.
5. Physical health is amongst the top three sources of happiness for teachers with 6 to 10 years, 16 to 20 years, and 21 to 25 years of teaching experience, showing its importance for these teachers. Emotional pleasure is only not ranked as an important happy factor to teachers with less than five years of teaching experience, showing that it is an important factor for teachers with 6 to 25 years of experience.
6. The "sense of achievement" is an important source of happiness for teachers with less than five years of teaching experience.
Suggestions based on the findings in this study, can be provided for the administrators of education, school administration units, vocational school teachers to consider, and can also be used as a reference for follow-up studies.
Keywords: vocational high school teacher, happiness, AHP
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Chiang, Yao-Tsung, and 江耀宗. "A Study of the Growth Trend in Happiness and Influential Factors of Adolescents with Physical and Mental Disorders in Taiwan." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jt7u22.
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博士<br>國立彰化師範大學<br>工業教育與技術學系<br>107<br>The purpose of the present study was to investigate happiness developmental changes in adolescents with physical & mental disorder and the relevant influential factors. In addition, the differences in the sense of happiness that the gender role would make were further analyzed. The study used the Special Needs Education Longitudinal Study (SNELS) in three waves in 2010, 2012, and 2013. Data analysis was performed using the latent growth curve model (LGCM).
The major findings are presented as follows：1. The happiness of adolescents with physical and mental disabilities was more and more intense with time, showing a positive growth. 2.The individua’s harmonious family relationship could help improve the happiness of young people with physical and mental disabilities and had a positive effect. 3. The better the peer relationships of adolescents with physical and mental disabilities, the higher the initial value of happiness; however, the better the relationship with peers, the slower the growth rate of happiness. 4.For adolescents with disabilities, gender had no significant impacts on the feeling of happiness.
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Hsu, Ching-Yu, and 許竫鈺. "The Study of Influencing Factors of Implementation Effectiveness for Station of Happiness Safeguarding in New Taipei City：Perspective of Collaborative Governance." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59583484415734764347.
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碩士<br>國立中興大學<br>國家政策與公共事務研究所<br>103<br>With globalization and changing policy environment, traditional government''s ability to govern has been insufficient to deal with the wicked problems. Faced with the diversity of public issues and lack of response to the dilemma, both oh them are promoting the government to reform, from traditional government to collaboration governance. The government by non-governmental actors which participate in government and private resources to solve common emerging public issues. Therefore, collaboration governance become an important topic, and used in the various aspects of public policy. In recent years, with the diversity of family structures and the change of social environment, the traditional function of the family has gradually lost so that many social affairs were resulted in all society. Therefore, the central government and local governments come up with the relevant social welfare policy in response to relevant social issues.
Besides the convenience stores as the first level provider role in social service to reduce the distance between government and people, Station of Happiness Safeguarding can increase the convenience and immediacy about service offer. Moreover, it could intergrate the resource by the cooperation among different department of government and offer the most appropriate social services according to the need about real cases.
The research object is Station of Happiness Safeguarding in New Taipei city. Based on the collaborative governance theory, the main purpose of the study is to discuss the implementation process and operation about Staion of Happiness Safeguarding in New Taipei city and then to inspect the key factors of influencing success or failure about the project during the developing process. Besides, to analyze the involving problem and solution during implementating process in order to intergrate the key factors of collaborative governance. Finally, after collectiving the data about interview result, the study will motify the view appropriately and propose the recommendation.
According to the research result, first, in the case, the government , schools, businesses, and the citizen ,have different levels of interaction, shape the multiple networks with multiple actors. Second, under the leader''s full support, through the policy design to achieve resource integration, and by the significant advertising effect in policy marketing, all of them are the key factors of influencing implementation effectiveness on this case. Third, the case in the implementation process of facing to the trade-off between information public and protection, goal cognitive differences, and obstruction of communication, all of them are the policy more perfect in thefuture. Thus ,this research proposes several policy recommendations：first, put the convenience stores into the care systems.Second,through continuous publicity to promote information circulation rate. Third, developing subsequent new policies to find people which hidden in the deep corner of society.
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Tai, Hsiu-Hui, and 戴秀慧. "Looking for a Place of Happiness—A Study on the Related Factors of Online Game Player''s Well-being." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24dy53.
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碩士<br>樹德科技大學<br>資訊管理系碩士班<br>104<br>In addition to having the abundant game content, stunning video sound-light effect, online games can also satisfy the recreation need and can bring a sense of accomplishment and happiness in the process of participation for players. For these reasons, online games have become one of the main leisure activities in all walks of life. Accordingly, how online game players feel and perceive about online game participation is a subject quite worth exploring. With the increasing pressure of modern life and the sense of alienation between people, it is expected that players can get physical and spiritual improvement and thus raise their own happiness from online games which is a medium of emotional communication and recreation. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship among social support, enduring involvement, flow experience, leisure benefits and well-being on online game players, with an aim to increase non-player’s positive view for online game.
For this purpose, this study investigates the relationship among social support, enduring involvement, flow experience, leisure benefits and well-being on online game players. After reviewing the relevant literature, it builds a research model to examine the relationship among social support, enduring involvement, flow experience, leisure benefits and well-being on online game players. For data collection, this study adopts online questionnaire survey on online game players. Finally, a total of 617 effective questionnaires are collected and analyzed.
The major findings of our empirical studies are summarized as follows. For online game players,
1. (1) Realistic social support is the most significant factor to social support.
(2) Attraction is the most significant factor to enduring involvement.
(3) Autotelic experience is the most significant factor to flow experience.
(4) Psychological benefits is the most significant factor to leisure benefits.
(5) Interpersonal relationship is the most significant factor to well-being.
2. There are positive correlations among social support, enduring involvement, flow experience and leisure benefits. There are positive correlations among enduring involvement, flow experience, leisure benefits and well-being.
3. (1) Social support has significant positive effect on flow experience, enduring involvement, and leisure benefits.
(2) Enduring involvement has significant positive effect on flow experience and leisure benefits.
(3) Flow experience and leisure benefits have significant positive effects on well-being.
(4) Enduring involvement doesn’t have significant effect on well-being.
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SU, PO-YUAN, and 蘇柏元. "A STUDY OF FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LEVELS OF HAPPINESS AMONG STUDENTS IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOL IN NORTHERN TAIWAN." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81171859728083760458.
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碩士<br>國立臺北大學<br>統計學系<br>100<br>Positive or negative information can be spread out quickly owing to fast growing technics. How to filter out bad influential information might be very challenged for students who are not very socialized. Furthermore, owing to few children in each family, parents may pay too much on the schoolwork and friends of their children. It is important to know whether the impact of too much attentions and too much information on the students is good.
This research used data collected by Taiwan Youth project archived in Survey Research Data Archive. We chose data from the adolescent questionnaire for students in the senior high school and vocational school from Taipei city, Taipei county and Ilan county as the study sample. This study used a single question, “Overall, have you been happy recently?”, as the study response variable. The chi-square test was used to assess the relationship between this response variables and potential influential categorical factors. The relationship between the response variable and the continuous explanatory variables was assessed by the analysis of variance. The overall association between the response variables and explanatory variables was examined through the multicategory logit model.
The result of the study shows that the potential influential factors for the level of happiness are different. Students, who have better grades, have better health and have better self-esteem, tend to be happier. However, students in the senior high school, who have moving experience; have a regular relationship, and have a good peers relationship, tend to live happy. On the contrary, students in the vocational school students tend to have a happier life if they were class cadre, don’t attend cram schools, have a better relationship with families, have no transferring experience to another school and have travelling experience to other countries. The finding of this research may give some guidance for parents, teachers and educational administrations when making educational policies.
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Cruz, Mariana Sofia das Neves. "Factors that impact the willingness to stay in organizations." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/21821.
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The competitive context of globalization is arising some complex issues for companies. One of
the main problems is high turnover rates, that are affecting negatively organizations’ results.
The willingness to stay in a company can be affected by numerous variables and, understanding
these variables can be crucial for the sustainability of any business.
This research aims to address and measure willingness to stay within a company, understand if
and how much it is influenced by organizational culture, specifically by commitment,
happiness, justice and loyalty. That is accomplished through formulating and testing of seven
research hypothesis.
For that purpose we applied a questionnaire, preceded by a pre-test procedure, to a sample
composed by any person, currently employed or not, having received a total of 284 valid
answers.
Our results reveal that Willingness to Stay is positively affected by Organizational
Commitment, Organizational Happiness and, Organizational Loyalty.
The results obtained also indicate that, although Organizational Justice doesn’t affect directly
Willingness to Stay, it acts has a mediator in the other three variables. These results point
towards an indirect relationship between Organizational Justice and Willingness to Stay
established through Organizational Commitment, Organizational Happiness and,
Organizational Loyalty.<br>O contexto competitivo da globalização está a gerar questões complexas para as empresas. Um
dos principais problemas são as taxas de rotatividade altas, que estão a afetar negativamente os
resultados das organizações. A intenção de permanecer numa empresa pode ser afetada por
inúmeras variáveis e entender essas variáveis pode ser crucial para a sustentabilidade de
qualquer negócio.
Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar e medir a Intenção de Permanecer numa organização,
entender se e o quanto esta intenção é influenciada pela cultura organizacional, especificamente
por compromisso, felicidade, justiça e lealdade. Neste caso, o estudo foi realizado através da
formulação e testagem de sete hipóteses de pesquisa.
Para o efeito aplicou-se um questionário, precedido de um pré-teste, a uma amostra composta
por qualquer pessoa, atualmente empregada ou não, tendo-se obtido um total de 284 respostas
válidas.
Os nossos resultados revelaram que a Intenção de Permanecer numa organização é
positivamente afetada por Compromisso Organizacional, Felicidade Organizacional e Lealdade
Organizacional.
Os resultados obtidos também indicam que, embora a Justiça Organizacional não afete
diretamente a Intenção de Permanecer, atua como agente mediador nas outras três variáveis em
estudo. Os resultados apontam para uma relação indireta entre Justiça Organizacional e
Intenção de Permanecer numa organização, estabelecida através de Compromisso
Organizacional, Felicidade Organizacional e Lealdade Organizacional.
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Jing-MinChen and 陳敬閔. "Spoken Dialog Summarization System with HAPPINESS/SUFFERING Factor Recognition." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k86see.
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CHEN, SHU-BEI, and 陳叙蓓. "Factor Analysis of Packaging Visual Design for Happiness on Organic Food – Middle-aged and Elderly as Example." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4fmw3m.
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碩士<br>國立雲林科技大學<br>設計學研究所<br>105<br>Elderly face many challenges in their daily lives. Empirical studies showed that the suicide rate of those over 65 years old was the highest compared with other ages in Taiwan. And depression was one of the main reasons for suicide of the elderly. Without early prevention or treatment, depression might form or worsen. Relevant literature pointed out that the middle-aged and the aged should avoid rapid ageing. The most important measures were reasonable diet and psychological balance. Literature on the sense of happiness deemed that the design of happiness could induce positive emotion and have positive effect. Packaging could best present the design of happiness. Therefore, with the packaging of organic food as a medium, this study aimed to explore the influencing factors and visual design factors and strategies of organic food for the middle-aged and the aged. It was designated to enhance their life quality and sense of happiness. Firstly, this study interviewed experts to learn the influencing factors and trends of happiness caused by organic food. Then, it concluded the visual design factors and design and development strategies for various groups through a questionnaire.
The results show that the living patterns of the middle-aged and the aged can be classified into four groups, that is, "self-realization group", "health maintenance group", "Lohas and food safety group", and "outgoing and loyal group". They vary in their requirements of the sense of happiness brought about by the packaging of organic food. "Self-realization group" deemed that healthy, reassuring, environmentally friendly, healing, comfortable, and innovative packaging of organic food brought about the highest sense of happiness and focused on the design factors of positive energy, natural feeling, thoughtful and convenient design, good corporate image, and fair trade with manufacturers. "Health maintenance group" asserted that healthy, reassuring, and environmentally friendly packaging of organic food brought about the highest sense of happiness and emphasized the design factors of blessing pictures or elements, clean and simple design, and good corporate culture, image, and marketing. "Lohas and food safety group" assumed that healthy, simple, and environmentally friendly packaging of organic food brought about the highest sense of happiness and paid attention to environment protection and the relationship between society and humans. "Outgoing and loyal group" thought that healthy, comfortable, professional, simple, environmentally friendly, and innovative packaging of organic food brought about the highest sense of happiness and stressed the convenience to open packaging or convenient instruction icon.
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Li, Hui-Hua, and 李惠華. "Examining the relationship among work autonomy and employee happiness: the work-life balance as the mediating factor." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jgb9p6.
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碩士<br>國立中山大學<br>人力資源管理研究所<br>107<br>The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between work autonomy and employee happiness, and investigate the work-life balance mediating effect. The object of study contains the manufacturing industry, the financial insurance business, the information science and technology industry, service industry, the education academic industry, the building architecture industry, and each kind employees of industries in Taiwan.
This research questionnaire picks by the network questionnaire form carries on, and the effective sample number is 158 samples. This research mainly uses the stratum linearity regression analysis to confirm each supposition. The findings are as follows:
H1: Work autonomy has a significantly positive influence on employee happiness.
H2: Work autonomy has a positive influence on work-life balance.
H3: Work-life balance has a positive influence on employee happiness.
H4: Work-life balance is partly mediated between work autonomy and employee happiness.
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Chang, Sheng-hung, and 張聖鴻. "Happy employees will do more?The research of employee happiness impact to organizational citizenship behavior - use personality factor and organizational culture as moderating variables." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8xkmhd.
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碩士<br>國立彰化師範大學<br>人力資源管理研究所<br>104<br>The relation of well-being and the organizational citizenship behavior is one of the most concerned topics of research in the field of organizational behavior. The research mainly focuses on well-being, and re-examine the relation between well-being and the organizational citizenship behavior to discuss the influence of well-being to work efficiency. Moreover, the research considers adding the variables, personality traits and organizational environment, to discuss what roles they play in the organizational citizenship behavior.
The survey of the research is conducted to manufacture employees in central Taiwan. The survey led to 379 usable questionnaires. Theresearch used confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling to prove the hypothesis. According to the results of the research, it shows that: (1) well-being has a positive influence to the organizational citizenship behavior; (2) the relationship between supportive culture of well-being and organizational citizenship behavior has a positive interference; (3) the personality of openness to experience and well-being relationship between organizational citizenship behavior has a negative interference; (4) years of service in the company has an impact on organizational citizenship behavior; (5) the total years of employment in the company has an influence on the organizational citizenship behavior.
Lastly, according to the result of the research, the researcher suggested three main highlights of management: (1) enhancing staff’s well-being has positive benefits to the organization; (2) the importance of supportive culture; (3) the careful management to staff with the personality of openness to experience.
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LI, YI-LIN, and 李宜霖. "The Discussion about Passing the Sense of Happinese through Cultural Image and Marketing Strategy of Cultural and Creative Commodities - An Example Of Xinglong Towel Tourism Factory." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d6686k.
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碩士<br>大仁科技大學<br>文化創意產業研究所<br>106<br>After years of development in tourism factories around Taiwan, commodities with cultural and creative ideas have been highly developed. They can be found not only in the factories but also in the shopping malls across the country. Some are even sold to the rest of the world through online shopping platforms. During the government’s vigorous promotion of taking weekend off and people’s enthusiasm for tourism, tourism factories across Taiwan are struggling to attract consumers’ attention through new marketing strategies and unique operating styles in order to make tourists pay for the commodities. While visiting a tourism factory, we can see the shopping area in which cultural and creative products are displayed. Some even provide customer the opportunity to make their own creative works.
In the process of visiting the factory, consumers can not only gain experiences, but also learn a lot of craft production knowledge from them. Moreover, they can also enhance the connection between friends and family. The “Xinglong Towel Tourism Factory” in Yunlin County was awarded the "Top Ten Taiwan Excellent Tourism Factories" by the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2011. In 2014, it was awarded the “One Township-One Characteristic in Taiwan" Quality Enterprise Award. Its unique cultural and creative towels as well as the marketing strategies are widely praised by consumers. This study aims to explore the level of happiness that consumers can acquire from the DIY experience and mixed marketing strategies of the cultural and creative towels designed by “Xinlong Towel Tourism Factory”.
In this study, the convenience sampling method was used. The researcher visited the Xinglong Towel Tourism Factory from Feburary 10th to April 25th in the year 2018 to conduct field surveys of tourists visiting or purchasing Xinglong Towels, and obtained 313 valid questionnaires. Descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, Independent-Sample T Test, One-Way ANOVA, and Linear regression analysis were used for checking the variation among tourists from different backgrounds. The results and analysis of the research can be served as a reference for the promotion of the innovative design and marketing strategies of the Xinglong Towel Tourism Factory, and we hope the traditional industries could be innovative and sustainable by combining with Taiwanese local culture.