International Journal of Happiness and Development

2012 - 2025

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Volume 9, issue 2, 2025

Indexing financial empowerment for women in India pp. 123-147

Mamta Aggarwal and Priya Gupta

Antecedents of mental health of students during COVID-19 pp. 148-158

Richa Banerjee

A study on university students' conflict resolution styles and happiness: the effect of psychological capital (a study in Iran) pp. 159-169

Mahtab Pouratashi and Asghar Zamani

Status effect or tunnel effect? Unravelling the dual role of relative income on subjective well-being among the Chinese population pp. 170-194

Hania Fei Wu

The impact of financial well-being on subjective happiness, innovativeness, and personal growth pp. 195-215

Petek Tosun, Mesut Dogan and A. Selcuk Koyluoglu

Volume 9, issue 1, 2025

Income and happiness: a study of a panel of US residents pp. 1-14

Ling Zhang and Sajal Lahiri

Impact of income on life satisfaction in India: a generalised ordered probit model approach pp. 15-34

Neeraj Kumar and P. Mahendra Varman

Happy-NE-R leadership for companies in emerging economies pp. 35-62

Raquel Ruiz-Rodríguez, Marta Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado and Rafael Ravina-Ripoll

Psychometric assessment of the Persian version of the future time perspective questionnaire in college students pp. 63-77

Forough Jafari, Seyedehdorsa Siadati and Fatemeh Bahrami

Exploring the emotional terrain: a comprehensive systematic literature review of the effects of emotional intelligence on stress and performance pp. 78-121

Swetha Suram, Vani Gayathri Rudra and Ramesh Kumar Miryala

Volume 8, issue 3, 2024

Happy leadership, now more than ever pp. 223-243

Gustavo A. Díaz-García, Marta Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado and Rafael Ravina-Ripoll

The effects of domain satisfaction on overall life satisfaction in Türkiye pp. 244-270

Serhat Çakmak and Pınar Narin Emirhan

The relationship between leisure and entertainment cultural aesthetics and organisational identification: the role of healing effects pp. 271-294

Thuy Dung Pham Thi and Nam Tien Duong

Trends and fluctuations in financial satisfaction and macroeconomic indicators in times of economic changes: the case of Latin America pp. 295-312

Lucía Macchia, Anke C. Plagnol and Richard Easterlin

Volume 8, issue 2, 2023

The impact of internet use on Chinese residents' subjective well-being pp. 83-101

Jianyu Chi

Explaining the linkages of happiness construct: a theoretical and empirical study on Indian population pp. 102-127

V.K. Shrotryia and Shashank Vikram Pratap Singh

Relationship between financial stress and happiness among Nigerians: the intermediary role of meaning of life pp. 128-154

Alex I. Shaahu and James T. Gire

Association of morningness-eveningness preference, happiness, and academic achievement with procrastination in university students pp. 155-168

Ayşe Nesibe Önder, Ezgi Güven Yıldırım and İsmail Önder

Exploring the relationships among forbidden fruit effect, trust, and engagement in online communities pp. 169-195

T.D. Pham Thi

Gender differences in the determinants of happiness and life satisfaction among Ghanaians: the effects of leisure time, social network and (in)security pp. 196-218

Ibrahim Mohammed and Rufai Haruna Kilu

Volume 8, issue 1, 2023

The relationship between the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and suicide rates: evidence from panel data pp. 1-16

Suzan Odabaşi

How self-esteem mediates the relationship between passive social network use and hedonic well-being: the comparison of Taiwanese and Vietnamese students pp. 17-27

Nhan Duc Nguyen, Wen Cheng and Hieu Minh Tran

Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Aspiration Index and the relationship between aspirations and subjective well-being pp. 28-43

Fatih Sonmez

Immigration policy and well-being of female foreign spouses: a case study of the effect of granting a work permit pp. 44-65

Pei-An Liao, Lin Lin and Hung-Hao Chang

Life satisfaction and Maslow's hierarchy of needs: an international analysis of the world values survey pp. 66-79

Hailey Pawsey, Kenneth M. Cramer and Denise DeBlock

Volume 7, issue 3, 2022

Moderating effect of mindfulness in psychological contract breach and work engagement relationship pp. 183-202

Gul Afshan

The influence of religiosity and culture on the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of CSR: a comparative case study of Taiwan and Austria pp. 203-221

Marius Molter, Vito Bobek, Gorazd Justinek and Tatjana Horvat

Stock market and happiness: some cross-country evidence of spillover effect and good government pp. 222-242

Tee Chwee Ming, Christine Chong Siew Pyng, Lim Thean Pheng and Boo Mei Chin

Factors associated with farm household happiness: an analysis from Western and Eastern Indonesia pp. 243-264

Zainal Mutaqin, Yessica C.Y. Chung and Noxolo Kunene

Mergers and acquisitions and employees' level of anxiety: the role of HRM practices pp. 265-290

Vathsala Wickramasinghe and Nadeesha Sajeewani

Volume 7, issue 2, 2022

Do psychological resilience and life satisfaction affect happiness levels of individuals? A case study for Trabzon University pp. 107-121

Kenan Bülbül, Tuğba Türkkan and Hatice Odacı

Urbanisation and life satisfaction pp. 122-141

Marium Ishaque and Faisal Qadri

COVID-19-induced financial anxiety and state of the subjective well-being among the Bangladeshi middle class: the effects of demographic conditions pp. 142-158

A.F.M. Jalal Ahamed

Income inequality and violent crime: evidence from Indian states pp. 159-178

G. Nagasubramaniyan and Augustine Joseph

Volume 7, issue 1, 2022

Does fiscal deficit, public debt, economic growth and energy consumption affect health expenditure in India: an empirical evidence based ARDL bound testing approach pp. 1-14

Tariq Ahmad Lone and Parveez Ahmad Lone

What makes employees happy at work? Evidence from cross-sectional data in India pp. 15-39

Iqra Zaffar and Abdul Gani

Why some people are not as happy as they could be: the role of unobservable subjective factors pp. 40-63

Adalgiso Amendola, Roberto Dell'Anno and Lavinia Parisi

How's life? An international classification based on life satisfaction and its determinants pp. 64-90

Sergio Tezanos and Borja López-Noval

Diversity, culture, and membership in social organisations pp. 91-106

Abu H. Ayob, Nor Asiah Omar, Zafir Mohamed Makhbul and Taslima Jannat

Volume 6, issue 4, 2021

Happily ever after? Egyptians' values and life satisfaction after the Arab Spring pp. 325-350

Ronia Hawash and Shireen AlAzzawi

Children's satisfaction with the neighbourhood in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina pp. 351-367

Graciela Tonon and Claudia Mikkelsen

Role of health communication strategies of 'National Health Mission' in the rural maternal health in Assam pp. 368-389

Raj Kiran Doley and Perumal Anbarasan

Effectiveness of stress management interventions in Indian insurance sector pp. 390-403

Ruchi Jain and Anukool Hyde

The impact of work and leisure importance on happiness in Egypt pp. 404-438

Sidrah Khalil and Hoda Mansour

Volume 6, issue 3, 2021

Employee playfulness: effects of personality and organisational climate pp. 197-219

Yu-Ling Ho, Ching-Yueh Chen and Liang-Hung Lin

Mediating role of financial satisfaction between income and subjective wellbeing: an evidence from Pakistan pp. 220-236

Muhammad Hassan Danish and Hafeez Rehman

Applying optimisation programming and research generator methods to measure subjective well-being within country pp. 237-262

Reza Nadimi, Shiori Tanaka and Koji Tokimatsu

Construction of a social welfare function under consideration of conditional self-interest pp. 263-284

Sabine Spangenberg and David M. Munyinyi

The impact of changing values on life satisfaction and happiness in Turkey pp. 285-305

Erdem Seçilmiş

Sustainable development and happiness pp. 306-324

Zahra Fotourehchi

Volume 6, issue 2, 2020

Quest of nexus between inflation and economic development: evidence from Asian countries pp. 95-112

Amritkant Mishra

Impact of the intra-household bargaining power gap on the happiness of married women in China pp. 113-142

Xinxin Ma

Social well-being and livelihood challenges in conflict economies: a study of Syrian citizens' perception of geopolitical fragility pp. 143-161

Faisal Ahmed, Moaz Nagib Gharib, Omar Durrah and Vinaytosh Mishra

A nudity-based intervention to improve body image, self-esteem, and life satisfaction pp. 162-172

Keon West

The predictive roles of positivity, forgiveness and religious attitudes on subjective happiness pp. 173-195

Aynur Fırıncı-Kodaz, Rumeysa Hoşoğlu, Meryem Vural-Batık and Tuğba Yılmaz-Bingöl

Volume 6, issue 1, 2020

Subjective well-being of the informal workers: an empirical study from Hooghly district of West Bengal, India pp. 1-25

Breeta Banerjee and Amit Kundu

The impacts of increasing leisure time on subjective health and life satisfaction pp. 26-40

Yen-Lien Kuo and Tzu-Hsiu Huang

A regional social progress index: the case of Epirus, Greece pp. 41-58

Mihail Diakomihalis

Do education and health influence economic growth and food security? Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 59-75

Md. Saiful Islam

The mediating role of self-compassion in relation between character strengths and flourishing in college students pp. 76-93

Forough Jafari