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Risk of Contracting COVID-19, Personal Resources and Subjective Well-Being among Healthcare Workers: The Mediating Role of Stress and Meaning-Making
2021
The latest research suggests that the relationships between the risk of contracting COVID-19, personal resources and subjective well-being have rather an indirect character and can include the occurrence of mediating factors related to meaning-making processes and stress experiences. Protection motivation theory offers a theoretical paradigm that enables these associations to be thoroughly investigated and understood. The current study aimed to examine the mediating roles of meaning-making and stress in the relationship of risk of contracting COVID-19 and personal resources (self-efficacy and meaning in life) with subjective well-being among healthcare workers. A total of 225 healthcare wor…
Exploring Subjective Well-Being: Insights for researchers and practitioners
This dissertation aims at improving our knowledge about Subjective Well-Being (either in theory and in practice) by addressing the crucial question of which mechanisms explain people’s sense of well-being. We support the general hypothesis that while economic growth plays an essential role in increasing people’s life standards, the subjective well-being is in part explained by noneconomic factors.These include individual psychological traits, generalised levels of trust, social support and involvement in social activities. The results of this thesis, may serve as a reference point for educators, researchers, policy-makers, and all those working in the field.
The subjective and objective evaluation of accomodation in Latvia in the aftercrisis period
2021
The most important wishes of people concentrate on the tendency to reach vitally significant factors (well-being, security, sustainability) that are realized through various channels – education, employment, family, material prosperity a.o.). One of the basic needs of an individual is a need for a physical shelter or a dwelling, yet, a dwelling is not only a roof over the head - it is also an indicator of the life quality. In its turn, it includes also the location of the dwelling, its technical conditions, as well as the living space – all influences the quality of life. Thereby the satisfaction with the dwelling can be linked with the satisfaction with life and well-being. On the side of …
Predictive variables of happiness in private sports centres
2018
The psychological investigation of happiness has increased significantly in recent decades to the point of becoming one of the most researched behaviours in the new field of Positive Psychology. However, relatively little progress has been made in happiness research and tests to evaluate happiness, and the Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI), built by Argyle, Martin and Crossland (1989), is among the best-known and most accredited. Happiness has represented a challenging and frustrating quest for humanity, as there is no consensus on its definition. Bearing in mind that there are many ambiguous factors that can affect the happiness of the individual, this study focuses on analysing the variabl…
Humanities and Social Sciences Latvia. Vol. 22, N. 2
2014
Subjektīvās labklājības saistība ar draudzības funkciju novērtējumu un sociālo tīklu lietošanas paradumiem vīriešiem un sievietēm
2015
Šā pētījuma mērķis bija noskaidrot, kāda ir subjektīvās labklājības saistība ar draudzības funkciju novērtējumu un sociālo tīklu lietošanas paradumiem vīriešiem un sievietēm. Pētījumā piedalījās 248 respondenti – 124 vīrieši un 124 sievietes (M=30,92, SD=8,49), kuri elektroniski aizpildīja divas aptaujas – Subjektīvās laimes skalu un draudzības funkciju aptauju, kā arī atbildēja uz jautājumiem par sevi un saviem sociālo tīklu lietošanas paradumiem. Rezultāti norāda uz atšķirībām respondentu draudzības funkciju novērtējumā trīs dažādu veidu draugiem: (1) draugiem, kuri tiek satikti ikdienas dzīvē (reāli draugi); (2) draugiem, kuri iepriekš satikti klātienē, tomēr dažādu apstākļu dēļ komunikā…
Reliģijas, apmierinātības ar dzīvi un pašvērtējuma saistība.
2015
Šī darba mērķis ir noskaidrot saistību starp reliģiju, apmierinātību ar dzīvi un pašvērtējumu. Apmierinātība ar dzīvi sevī ietver laimi, subjektīvo labklājību un pozitīvas emocijas. Šī darba ietvaros vairāk tiks apskatīta subjektīvā labklājība. Reliģija ir ticība kam mistiskam , kas sevī ietver reliģisku normu ievērošanu, rituālus, ticību un būšanu reliģiskā kopienā. Starp subjektīvo labklājību un reliģiju pastāv pozitīva korelācija. Pašvērtējums ir cilvēka subjektīvs viedoklis par sevi pašu, ,kas var nesakrist ar citu domām par viņu. Tika secināts, ka reliģijas skalas pozitīvi korelē savā starpā, kā arī pozitīva korelācija novērojama starp pašvērtējumu un apmierinātību ar dzīvi, bet negatī…
SUSTAINABLE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FROM PERSPECTIVE OF CITIZENS: SALASPILS MUNICIPALITY (LATVIA) CASE
2015
Conditions are very different in the different parts of any country, and the quality of life as well as the impacts produced on the environment depend on a variety of local factors of environmental, economic and cultural nature, and every action must cope with such local conditions, traditions, and attitudes. Thereby one of the approaches on assessment of sustainable development could be based on subjective evaluation of citizens of certain municipality. During 2010-2012 in Salaspils municipality (Latvia) the SPIRAL methodology for measurement of subjective well-being indicators using co-responsibility approach was approbated, which was the basis for establishing the more efficient dialogue…
Personal goal orientations and subjective well-being of adolescents
2012
The present study examines the types of orientation that can be identified according to the personal goals of adolescents, and how these orientations differ in their subjective well-being. In the context of the person-oriented approach, 1144 17-year-olds (565 girls, 579 boys) filled in the revised Little's personal project analysis, school burnout, depression, life satisfaction, and self-esteem inventories. Four goal orientations emerged from this data with cluster analysis: (1) property (40%), (2) vocation (24%), (3) social relationships and future education (23%), and (4) self-focused (13%) orientations. Boys were the majority in the property and the vocation orientations, whereas girls d…
Social Capital, Well-Being and Municipality: Salaspils Municipality (Latvia) Case
2016
Abstract During the last three decades, social capital has gained prominence throughout the social sciences. The concepts has been analysed in various manners (from perspectives of economics, political sciences, sociology, anthropology etc.) providing wide range of theoretical conceptualizations. The aim of paper is to analyse the relation of social capital and possibility to improve the well-being of the municipality’s citizens using co-responsibility approach. In order to achieve the aim, the tasks are formulated as follows: 1) to review theoretical background for concept of social capital and subjective well-being, 2) to analyse the factors of social capital at local level, and 3) to use…