Students who describe themselves as spiritual (or religious) are likely to report greater self - perceived health and greater self - perceived health likely influences
life satisfaction for both men and women.
If we are missing
life satisfaction for any of the periods 3, 4, or 5 years before a first birth, the baseline is calculated as the average of the nonmissing reported values.
Benefits of working with the whole family also include more rapid recovery and improved
life satisfaction for the patient and family.
Consistent with findings with adolescents (Dew and Huebner, 1994), the Parent Relations domain was the strongest predictor of global
life satisfaction for these pre-adolescents.
Virginia Lewis and DiAnne Borders (Lewis and Borders 1995) found sexual satisfaction to be the second strongest predictor of
life satisfaction for single middle - aged professional women, after job satisfaction.
This is supported by Nansook Park, Christopher Peterson and Seligman in 2004 research that shows that having higher scores on VIA character strengths was associated with greater
life satisfaction for 21 of 24 strengths.
In contrast to Year 4 students, the variable that differentiated the most between higher and lower
life satisfaction for Year 6 respondents was psychosomatic symptoms — like headaches, feeling low or irritable, or not being able to sleep.
On average, looking at groupies seemed to improve self - esteem and
life satisfaction for participants.
In this case, however, Sselfie and groupie viewing behavior increased the self - esteem and
life satisfaction for these participants, likely because this activity satisfied the participants» desires to appear popular, according to the researchers.
The study also examined whether the quality and / or quantity of close friendships are more strongly linked to overall
life satisfaction for GLB groups than for heterosexuals.
Almost 340,000 individuals participated in the Canadian Community Health Survey and General Social Survey from 2009 to 2013, which permitted Statistics Canada to perform community - level measures of
life satisfaction for 33 census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and 58 economic regions across the country.
The results matched these expectations in that the No - Facebook group reported lower life satisfaction at the end of the study than those in the Facebook - as - normal condition (the average
life satisfaction for the Facebook - as - normal group had increased during the study whereas the No - Facebook group's had not).
Clearly, the cultural diagnoses delivered by First Things were still
a live satisfaction for him.
If you're like most lifters, you deeply enjoy training your chest — watching the pecs contract to move heavy loads is one of the vital
life satisfactions for manly men.
Not exact matches
But while finally learning to paraglide or making that career change you have long dreamed about may be necessary
for your
life satisfaction in the long - run, short term we shouldn't miss opportunities to take small steps towards greater well being.
Curiosity is good
for us too: Happiness guru Martin Seligman identifies it as a key character strength that can enhance
life satisfaction.»
«Having spare time and perceiving control over how to spend that time (i.e. discretionary time) has been shown to have a strong and consistent effect on
life satisfaction and happiness, even controlling
for the actual amount of free time one has.»
No one can blame you
for the occasional reverie in which you imagine yourself ensconced in a cushy corporate nine - to - five, but Leslie reminds business owners that despite their grumbling, the difficulties of business ownership give structure to our
lives, sharpen our enjoyment, improve our minds and generally boost
satisfaction.
The benefits of allowing dogs in the office far outweigh the costs, and the increase in job
satisfaction for those with dogs or who like dogs far outweighs the mild annoyance of those miserable individuals who somehow make it through
life unaffected by wagging tails and contagious enthusiasm.
While it is not directly related to replacement rates per se, the authors use pairs of cross sectional data from the GSS and from Statistics Canada's 1992 Family Expenditure Surveys and the 1998 Survey of Household Spending to illustrate that both real family income and real family consumption adjusted
for household size tend to be hump - shaped with respect to age and peak in the 50s, while general
satisfaction with
life tends to stay relatively constant through different ages.
Because millennials commonly view work -
life balance as a priority, perks that demonstrate support
for «
living life to its fullest» also can encourage
satisfaction and loyalty.
Another novel finding is that we establish the existence of a height premium
for work and
life satisfaction, but only
for paid employees.
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«Through the intense focus our 285,000 colleagues bring to helping people
live healthier
lives and helping make the health system work better
for everyone, we have grown to serve more people in more ways than ever, including through innovative uses of advanced technologies, data analytics, and modern clinical approaches that improve quality, lower cost and advance consumer and care provider
satisfaction,» David S. Wichmann, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, said in a conference call.
That is: the mind caught in an alien body; the not - quite - genius nerd who's «the king of foreplay» or will do anything to «get laid» and, really, anything to have a relational
life with a pretty girl; the highly erotic metrosexual who turns the whole cosmos into a romantic tale that has room
for appreciating «The Good Wife»; the guy who is better than he says (but still genuinely short on manliness), but who is creepy in his ingenuity when it comes to using his robotic gadgets
for personal
satisfaction.
In the Hebrew - Christian tradition the presupposition is that the universe does contain
satisfaction for man's highest desires, that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are blessed and shall be filled, that there is
living bread and water
for the spirit, not, in a negative peace of renounced desire but in the positive achievement of triumphant personality, both here and in an eternal kingdom of souls.
Some
satisfaction can be taken in partial success, but
for the most part
life cheats a person of the fruits of his effort.
The symbols, concepts, images, stories and myths of Christian origin, which remain deeply embedded in the fabric of western culture, will continue to offer the raw material from which people form their understanding of
life, develop their capacity
for spirituality and experience
satisfaction at the deepest levels.
To experience the
life of joy, fulfillment,
satisfaction, and purpose that God wants
for us, we must first be born of the Spirit so that God's new
life dwells within us.
Among people who are predominantly in a disciple phase the emphasis will lie in the
satisfactions that come in knowing the meaning of
life, in having definite guidelines
for the
living out of that meaning, and in enjoying God's material support.
After all, Yahweh made it clear that he never desires the death of the wicked, but that they would turn to him and
live, and so it does not make sense that he would force them to eternally suffer death, since it is
for no purpose except perhaps God's
satisfaction, which does not seem to fit with his nature.
It is interesting, is it not, that most of the things the world longs
for — never - ending
life, overwhelming joy, unconditional love,
satisfaction, power — all of these things are already found... and only found... in the Christian
life.
But whatever the case, we shouldn't take smug
satisfaction that these things are some some sort of perverted proof that we are
living right
for God.
By weakness, ignorance, and fear all are prone to
live for self and to snatch after such
satisfactions as come within their grasp.
Given sufficiently significant purposes, renunciation of sexual
satisfaction will, in fact, tend to heighten energies and intensify the zest
for living.
This dialogue should be regarded as the primary opportunity
for teaching true democratic values,
for in it the issues of what is really worthful and whether one shall
live for satisfaction or
for service become «existential» — personally decisive — rather than merely theoretical and speculative.
From this perspective, the modern assault on sex standards in the name of freedom (more properly called license) presents a major threat to individual and social welfare,
for it justifies and confirms sensual
satisfaction as the regulating principle of
life.
Seventh, if marriages are to be permanent and productive of humane values, marriage partners need to select one another not on the basis of romantic attraction and immediate sexual
satisfaction, but out of regard
for the long - term potentialities in the relationship
for the creation of a worth - full shared
life.
For example, the Feeding of the Multitude is to be understood not simply as a matter of staying the hunger of a large crowd on an inadequate supply of «loaves and fishes», but as signifying the
satisfaction of spiritual need with the «bread of
life».
When people
live by the principle of want -
satisfaction, they will employ any available means
for acquiring the wanted objects.
From this standpoint, the task of intelligence in relation to sex is not to master it or to control it in the way of earlier restrictive patterns of
life, but to discover means of securing maximum sexual
satisfaction for all people.
In all of these cases, although exercising complete forgiveness was sometimes a process
for them, when forgiveness was finally extended, these individuals received emotional
satisfaction and an intrinsic desire to progress forward with their
lives regardless of whether or not reconciliation would happen.
Are there things in
life that you have been searching
for which you thought would give you fulfillment and
satisfaction?
Most of the Vedic religious aspiration moves at the level of the
satisfaction of physical needs — long
life, food, shelter, protection, large families — but in these hymns one finds a consciousness of sin and guilt and the need
for forgiveness, as well also as guidance and direction in
living.
Drinking that is a symptom of social and personal malady can not be effectively eliminated directly; it can be eliminated only by the healing of personality through the exchange of the
life of
satisfaction for that of devotion.
It is a small book, and the supporting sociological evidence is mainly referenced in the footnotes, but Greeley does propose evidence that, among other things, Catholics have, compared to non-Catholics, a significantly higher appreciation of the arts and high culture; they have more
satisfaction and fun in sex; they better understand the uses of leisure; they have a deeper and more stable relationship to family and community; they have a greater respect
for the
life of the mind, with educational achievements reflecting that respect; and they understand the nuanced connections between freedom and authority.
People want to
live in pairs
for emotional reasons and
for personal
satisfaction, and want to do so even if there are no children.
But to be sensitive to the aesthetic
satisfaction of participating in the community's public
life, even its common spiritual culture, was
for Dewey an objective worth pursuing.
The ideal aim from God, however, is «ideal» not only because it is the most relevant
for a specific
life situation, but also because each of these ideal aims fits harmoniously with all the others into a larger whole, which Cobb describes as «Cod's aim at universal intensity of
satisfaction» (CNT 180).
He felt that
life no longer held any
satisfaction for him and there was only one solution that he could now see — only one way out — suicide.