scholarly journals The Relationship between Human Well-Being and Carbon Emissions

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 547
Author(s):  
Qin Li ◽  
Hongmin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Relationship

Governments around the world are actively exploring strategies to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change. In addition to technological progress, promoting a transformation of residents’ behaviors to a low carbon mode is also a solution. Many people are concerned about how to reduce carbon emissions while ensuring human well-being. Starting from the comparative analysis of two main theories of human well-being, this paper sorted out existing well-being measurement methods from the perspectives of “top-down” and “bottom-up” and further sorted out research on the relationship between human well-being and energy carbon emissions. While “top-down” research is conducive to the layout of macro policies, “bottom-up” research can better help to promote the transformation of society to a low carbon life by estimating the energy consumption and carbon emissions contained in human needs. Current research discusses human well-being, human needs, energy use and carbon emissions, respectively, but they are not systematically integrated. Furthermore, this paper proposes a framework combining these aspects to analyze the relationship between human well-being and carbon emissions. In addition, this paper suggests future research directions.

Fulfillment of Sport Spectator Motives: The Mediation Effect of Well-Being

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 1421-1433 ◽  
Author(s):  
TzuShuo Ryan Wang ◽  
Sophia D. Min ◽  
Suk Kyu Kim
Keyword(s):  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Revisit Intention ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Sport Spectator ◽  
The Relationship

Spectator motives have been conventionally used to explain sport spectator behavior, such as word-of-mouth recommendations and revisit intention. A review of the literature suggests that the predictability of spectator motives is both inconsistent and context dependent. We proposed that these factors can be reconciled by directly examining the role of spectator well-being in the relationship between spectator motives and repatronage behavior. Our findings revealed that spectator well-being significantly mediates the effects of 5 motives, that is, achievement, aesthetics, knowledge, family, and escape, on sport spectator revisit intention and word-of-mouth recommendations. Future research directions are also discussed.

Dispositional mindfulness as a moderator between perceived stress and psychological symptoms in Chinese digestive tract cancer patients

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 810-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengyu Zhong ◽  
Pei Hwa Goh ◽  
Di Li ◽  
Junyi Bao ◽  
Wei Xu
Keyword(s):  
Digestive Tract ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Dispositional Mindfulness ◽  
Digestive Tract Cancer ◽  
Tract Cancer ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Relationship

Mindfulness has been garnering increased attention within the area of clinical psychology due to its theorized and empirical associations with psychological well-being. Using a sample of patients diagnosed with digestive tract cancer ( N = 292), we examined the relationship between perceived stress and psychological symptoms at varying levels of dispositional mindfulness. Results showed significant associations between perceived stress and psychological symptoms. More importantly, the relationship between perceived stress and psychological symptoms was only significant for patients with low, but not high, levels of dispositional mindfulness. Implications and future research directions were discussed.

Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model

2021 ◽  
pp. 096372142110536
Author(s):  
Philippe Verduyn ◽  
Nino Gugushvili ◽  
Ethan Kross
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
User Characteristics ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Passive Model

Do social networking sites (SNSs) influence well-being? According to the active-passive model of SNS use, the impact of SNSs on well-being depends on how they are used: Using SNSs actively to interact with other users positively affects well-being, whereas passive consumption of SNS content negatively affects well-being. However, emerging evidence suggests that the active-passive distinction is too coarse to fully capture the relationship between SNS use and well-being. Here we describe the extended active-passive model of SNS use, which refines the original model in three ways: It decomposes active use, decomposes passive use, and crosses usage types with user characteristics. We describe recent empirical evidence illustrating the benefits of these three extensions and highlight important future research directions. The extended active-passive model of SNS use provides a nuanced understanding of the relationship between SNS use and well-being by highlighting that active use of SNSs is not always beneficial and passive use is not always detrimental.

scholarly journals Impact of Residential Self-Selection on Low-Carbon Behavior: Evidence from Zhengzhou, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6871 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingfei Zhang ◽  
Lijun Zhang ◽  
Yaochen Qin ◽  
Xia Wang ◽  
Zhicheng Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Low Carbon Energy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Daily Travel ◽  
At Home

Current resident lifestyles pose a significant threat to urban sustainable development. Therefore, low-carbon behavior is receiving increasing attention from scholars and policy makers. Ascertaining residential self-selection is essential in order to study the relationship between the built environment and travel behavior. While several studies have explored the relationship between the urban form, socioeconomic factors, and travel behavior, only a few of them have studied the impact of self-selection on household energy consumption and other forms of consumption, which are also contribute to household carbon emissions. Using large-scale field surveys of 1,485 households and high-resolution images, sourced from Google Maps in 2018, of Zhengzhou city, the present study estimated the low-carbon level of three kinds of behavior: daily energy use at home, daily travel, and daily consumption. The study investigated the influence factors on low-carbon behavior using the hierarchical linear model. We found that residential self-selection impacts both energy use and daily travel. Residents in some built environments consumed less energy at home and contributed less CO2 emissions through daily travel than others. In particular, individual-level variables significantly affected the low-carbon energy use behavior. The female, elderly, highly educated, married, and working-class residents with children had higher levels of low-carbon energy use. Community-level variables significantly affected the level of low-carbon travel and low-carbon consumption. If residents lived in areas with high density, mixed land use, and high accessibility, their travel mode and consumption behavior would entail low carbon emissions. There is a relationship between individual variables and community variables. Different individual attributes living in the same built environment have different impacts on low-carbon behaviors.

scholarly journals Social networking’s peril: Cognitive absorption, social networking usage, and depression

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stoney Brooks ◽  
Phil Longstreet
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Cognitive Absorption ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Relationship

Social networking has become commonplace in today’s always-connected world. Due to this ubiquity, researchers have sought to explore the positive and negative effects that can result from usage of social networking. This research has shown many effects on an individual's psychological well-being, with one of the most concerning being mixed results of how usage relates to depression. In this study, we further examine the relationship between usage and depression for social networking users. In addition, we posit that aspects of cognitive absorption, namely temporal dissonance, focused immersion, and heightened enjoyment, have a direct effect on the amount of usage. A survey of 251 social networking users reveals that temporal dissociation and heightened enjoyment are associated with increased usage, and usage was found to be associated with greater levels of depression. Further, prior research has shown a significant difference between genders in Internet usage and social networking. Therefore, we report our findings as an overall analysis and as a gender-based between-groups analysis. This analysis shows that more variance is explained for females than males in most relationships. Implications for research and society are discussed along with future research directions.

scholarly journals Economic Growth and Carbon Emission Nexus: A Survey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rongrong Li ◽  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Lina Zhan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Science Data ◽  
Hotspot Analysis ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Developing better mitigation strategy requires a comprehensive understanding the relationship between economic growth and carbon emission. Through a literature review, we summarized the following five relationship reported in existing studies: (i) a single causal from economic growth to carbon emission, (ii) a single causal from carbon emissions to economic growth, (iii) a bidirectional causality, (iv) the Environmental Kuznets Curve, (v) no obvious relationship. And then, we further quantify contribution of countries, institutes, authors, investigate research hotspot, and explore future research directions of carbon emissions and economic growth nexus using web of science data from 2001-2019. We find regardless of the total number of publications, institutions and highly cited papers, China research on carbon emissions and economic growth has always been among the best. By analyzing the cooperation relationship between countries and institutions, more than half of the institutions are more inclined to cooperate with institutions in their own countries rather than abroad. Through keyword hotspot analysis and keyword trend analysis, we uncovered the future research directions and hotspots of carbon emissions and economic growth: ①What is the relationship between carbon emissions, economic growth and energy consumption. ②The efforts of China in carbon reduction and economic growth. ③How to reduce carbon dioxide emissions while ensuring stable economic growth. ④The research on carbon emissions and economic growth in the fields of urbanization, financial development, renewable energy, and climate change.

Special Issue on Psychophysiology and Neuroscience in Sport: Final Thoughts

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank L. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sport Performance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Current Special Issue

Consistent with the Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology’s mission, the current special issue on psychophysiology and neuroscience in sport has brought together a variety of timely papers exploring the relationship between physiological processes and both sport performance and personal well-being. These final thoughts observe patterns noted among the papers in this issue, highlight future research directions, and most importantly, clarify where this emerging technology and its associated procedures currently stand in the evidence-based practice of clinical sport psychology.

scholarly journals Loneliness and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Roles of Personal, Social and Organizational Resources on Perceived Stress and Exhaustion among Finnish University Employees

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 7146
Author(s):  
Jaana-Piia Mäkiniemi ◽  
Atte Oksanen ◽  
Anne Mäkikangas
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Electronic Survey ◽  
University Employees ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Personal Resilience ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this study is to investigate whether personal, social and organizational level resources can buffer against the negative effects of perceived loneliness on stress and exhaustion. The data was collected from Finnish university employees (n = 1463) in autumn 2020 via an electronic survey. Of the respondents, about 78% were working remotely, and 64% were female. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to analyze the main and moderating (i.e., buffering) effects. The results indicated that perceived loneliness was directly and positively associated with stress and exhaustion. Further, as hypothesized, personal resilience moderated the relationship between loneliness and stress and exhaustion, and organizational support moderated the relationship between loneliness and stress. Unexpectedly, organizational support did not moderate the loneliness–exhaustion relationship. Moreover, a sense of social belonging was not associated with stress and exhaustion, nor did it moderate loneliness and well-being relationships. The results demonstrate the importance of personal resilience and organizational support in enhancing well-being in organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Future research directions and practical ways to promote resilience and to increase organizational support are discussed.

scholarly journals Stages of Colonialism in Africa: From Occupation of Land to Occupation of Being

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hussein A. Bulhan
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Resources

This paper draws primarily on my own scholarship, supplemented by the limited academic resources available in the “peripheries” of the world where I live and work (namely, Somali society and Darfur, Sudan), to consider the relationship between colonialism and psychology. I first consider the history of psychology in justifying and bolstering oppression and colonialism. I then consider the ongoing intersection of colonialism and psychology in the form of metacolonialism (or coloniality). I end with thoughts about decolonizing psychological science in teaching, social, and clinical practice. To decolonize psychological science, it is necessary to transform its focus from promotion of individual happiness to cultivation of collective well-being, from a concern with instinct to promotion of human needs, from prescriptions for adjustment to affordances for empowerment, from treatment of passive victims to creation of self-determining actors, and from globalizing, top-down approaches to context-sensitive, bottom-up approaches. Only then will the field realize its potential to advance Frantz Fanon’s call for humane and just social order.

Computer-Mediated Communication and Mental Health

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-110
Author(s):  
Adrian Meier ◽  
Emese Domahidi ◽  
Elisabeth Günther
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Systematic Database

The relationship between computer-mediated communication (e.g., Internet or social media use) and mental health has been a long-standing issue of debate. Various disciplines (e.g., communication, psychology, sociology, medicine) investigate computer-mediated communication in relation to a great variety of negative (i.e., psychopathology) and positive (i.e., well-being) markers of mental health. We aim at charting this vast, highly fragmented, and fast growing literature by means of a scoping review. Using methods of computational content analysis in conjunction with qualitative analyses, we map 20 years of research based on 1,780 study abstracts retrieved through a systematic database search. Results reveal the most common topics investigated in the field, as well as its disciplinary boundaries. Our review further highlights emerging trends in the literature and points to unique implications for how future research should address the various relationships between computer-mediated communication and mental health.

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