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METACOGNITION AND HAPPINESS: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF PERCEIVED STRESS

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Sariçam H.
Studia Psychologica
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2015
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vol. 57
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issue 4
271 – 283
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The basic aim of this research is to examine the mediating role of perceived stress between metacognition and happiness. The participants were 290 university students. In this study, the Metacognition Questionnaire-MCQ-30, the Perceived Stress Scale and the Short Form of Oxford Happiness Questionnaire were used. The relationships between meta-cognition, perceived stress, and happiness were examined using correlation analysis and Structural Equation Model (SEM). In correlation analysis, metacognition and perceived stress were found to be negatively related to happiness. On the other hand, metacognition was found to be positively correlated to perceived stress. Structural Equation Model showed that metacognition results in an increase in perceived stress in an unhappy person, whereas reduction in stress leads to happiness; however, metacognition also produces unhappiness. Results were discussed in the light of the related literature.
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THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE OF CZESLAW MILOSZ'S POETIC MINIATURE 'HAPPINESS'

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Winiarski J.
Przegląd Humanistyczny
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2005
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vol. 49
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issue 1(388)
9-25
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The article analyses the aesthetics and semantics of Cz. Milosz's 'Happiness'. Referred to genres, it analyses relations between epigram, epiphany and a poetic and artistic capriccio, a free style artistic composition. It indicates a visionary style of language, in realistic description and regular narration. It underlines the solar motive as a medium of symbolic meanings, the source of art and anthropological philosophy. The composition creates a discourse with European classicism. Space has an inter-textual dimension here. Cz. Milosz's poem is a hermeneutic explanation of the world and affirmation of culture.
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„O szczęściu” i radości

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Korzeniowska M.
Filo-Sofija
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2011
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vol. 11
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issue 2-3(13-14)
689-698
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The main aim of this article is to present Władysław Tatarkiewicz’s concept of joy in the context of his research on the issue of happiness. The phenomenon of joy is shown as a very important but not well known problem, playing a clue role in the philosophy of Plato, Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Meister Eckhart, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Lévinas, not only in the ethical but also in the epistemological context. W. Tatarkiewicz’s Analysis of Happiness is one of a very few works in Polish humanities, which is possible to treat as the frame of reference for the philosophical euforiology. In Analysis of Happiness he compares the joy and the happiness, according to such a differences between them as intensity, permanence, transcendence or mentality. The phenomenon of joy is also interpreted as a base for the happiness in the psychological understanding. Tatarkiewicz formulates a hierarchy of good states of mind, placing the joy between the pleasure and the jollification. The work Analysis of Happiness contains also the typology of joy – from the joy of life, Elysian joy, mystical joy, the joy of love, to the joy understood as the happiness of the moment.
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INTERNET, SOCIAL CAPITAL, HAPPINESS. WHO, WHAT AND WHY OBTAIN BENEFITS USING THE INTERNET?

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Skarzynska K., Henne K.
Kolokwia Psychologiczne (Psychological Colloquia)
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2005
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vol. 13
171-186
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There is a debate in the literature concerning psychological and social effects of the Internet usage. A question is raised if this medium helps developing social contacts and building social support networks (enhance building social capital), increases psychological well-being, or the contrary - destroys social networks, lowers social trust, and makes people less happy (Putnam, 1995; 2000; Wellman et al., 2001; Kraut et al., 2002).Analysis, presented in this article, are based on the data of the representative Polish sample, gathered in the 'Social Diagnosis 2003' project. Three groups were compared. Two of them were created upon the criterion of intensity and length of the Internet usage. The third group consisted of those who don't use this medium at all. Influence of socio-demographic variables (such as: age, sex, education, place of residence, income) were also controlled.Results show that those who use the Internet, comparing to those who do not, have more sense of happiness, more friends, and declare more sense of social support. Moreover, the longer period of the Internet usage, the higher level of declared sense of happiness and social capital.
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K OTÁZKE VPLYVU SOCIÁLNYCH PRÁV NA KVALITU ŽIVOTA

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Smolková E.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2023
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vol. 78
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issue 5
380 – 394
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Questions of happiness or well-being are traditional philosophical themes. These are nowadays covered by the issue of quality of life. Although this is a term whose interpretations vary, the terms well-being, happy or fulfilling life are used. The issue is interdisciplinary and resonates across disciplines, including philosophy. Quality of life is a topic that is approached from different perspectives and from different points of view. In this study, we will focus on the philosophical aspects of quality of life issues that are related to human rights, especially social rights, and examine those aspects that are central to quality of life issues, particularly in the context of the operation of ethical normative criteria related to social rights and their bearing on quality-of-life concerns. The aim of the study is thus to look for the intersection between the individual and the social to highlight that it is social rights that have had and continue to have the most significant impact on quality of life. They are a tool to ensure the basic necessities of life but also the ideas of equality and justice. They are an essential prerequisite for personal development since they create objective possibilities for seizing opportunities and those qualitative indicators that make it possible, in the long term, to live a fulfilling life.
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IS EUROPE HAPPY? AN INNOVATIVE ATTEMPT TO EVALUATE IT

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Dimova L., Dimov M.
Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied
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2019
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vol. 22
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issue 4
42 – 62
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We have developed our analyses based on the assumption that happiness indicates the positive emotional harmony with oneself, in particular with: a) personal status; b) living conditions and c) life perspectives. We consider the feeling of happiness registered in 2016/17 by the Eighth wave of the European Social Survey (ESS). Our main research questions here are why people in different European countries feel or do not feel happy; what the main factors influencing this feeling are, what their strongest impact is, and what the main set of differences and similarities across different parts of Europe are. We have selected eleven ESS European countries for the analyses: Spain, Portugal, The UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Hungary, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, Poland and The Czech Republic. The main criteria for choosing them were the following: a) geographical location b) socio-political background c) economic development (Mature vs. Emerging economies). In this analysis we have used the sociological interpretations of happiness (Tilkidgiev, 2006; Veenhoven, 2008; Durand & Exton, 2019; Dimova & Dimov, 2010; OECD, 2017; Peasgood, Foster, & Dolan, 2019). Empirical evidences from the ESS suggest that happiness is not equal to life satisfaction –neither in daily nor from more general perspectives. In all countries, people that feel happy are more than those who are satisfied with their lives. In other words, people can feel happy even if not totally satisfied with their life as a whole. In the European context, the strongest determinants of happiness are age, health, income, religion and education.
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Naturalne pragnienie Boga według św. Tomasza z Akwinu i idea dowodu eudajmonistycznego

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Klaja M. E.
Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
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2013
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vol. 41
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issue 4
85-116
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St. Thomas Aquinas’s notions of the good and desire are inextricably connected with his theory of being. Therefore, a correct understanding of desire, and particularly of what St. Thomas understands by the natural desire for happiness, requires an examination of his metaphysical theory. The analysis of these notions also require an examination of St. Thomas’s anthropology, especially of the problem of the unity of body and soul and the structure of the human faculties. Rational desire is, alongside knowledge, one of the two spiritual activities of man. It can be satisfied only by an infinite good, which alone can bring complete and lasting happiness. Since according to St. Thomas no natural desire, and in particular the desire for happiness, can be vain, the analysis of the natural pursuit of happiness can become the basis for another argument for the existence of God: The desire would be futile if God did not exist. Traces of such an argument, called the eudaimonic argument, can already be found in St. Augustine, who also considered the desire for happiness to be a necessary aspect of human nature and capable of being satisfied only by God.
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Determinanty dobrostanu i dobrobytu

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Maciejasz-Swiatkiewicz M.
Nauki o Finansach
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2011
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issue 6
171-178
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People tend to think that money is the most important factor that make them happy. But not only do economic factors influence our happiness. There are lots of socio-demographic, ecological, cultural or psychological factors that determine our well-being and welfare. However, the problem with happiness is that the same actions can make one person happy but not another. This article presents in what ways all the aforementioned factors can determine our well-being, welfare and influence our happiness. Except for a pure educational use, this knowledge can be very useful for government while deciding about economic changes.
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"Пацанские рассказы" Захара Прилепина. Новый автор, новый герой

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Waszkielewicz H.
Slavica Wratislaviensia
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2011
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vol. 153
443-451
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Zakhar Prilepin is a 34-year-old writer, critic, social and political activist with a remarkable wartime experience, essay writer and TV presenter, who is highly popular and prospers very well in the media zone. Apart from three successful novels The Pathologies (2005), Sankya (2006) and Sin (2007), he also published a collection of stories which are subject of analysis in the present article. Boots Full of Hot Vodka. Boy Stories (2008) is a collection of stories full of brutality, humour, and lyricism, from which a delightfully coherent image of the protagonist and the world emerges. The coherence results for instance from the closeness of the protagonist and the author. The latter says of himself: “I am a happy man who occasionally keeps himself busy writing books.” Prilepin seems to be creating a new topos, absent from Russian literature so far — the topos of a happy man.
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ОТ БЛАЖЕНСТВОТО ДО КЕФА: ТРАНСФОРМАЦИИ НА ЩАСТИЕТО В БЪЛГАРСКИЯ ЕЗИК И КУЛТУРА

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Micheva-Peycheva K.
Slavica Slovaca
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2023
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vol. 58
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issue 2
257 - 268
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Our study aims to analyse the concept of happiness in terms of their semantic content and verbal implementations. Linguistic analysis is tied to the lexicosemantic approach and fits into the modern directions of diachronic linguoculturology, and axiology. The transformations of happiness from the archaic era through Christian culture to the present day are presented.
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Egzystencjalne znaczenie cierpienia w aksjologii Władysława Tatarkiewicza

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Konstańczak S.
Filo-Sofija
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2011
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vol. 11
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issue 2-3(13-14)
629-642
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The problem of human suffering was not the subject of a separate publication by Władysław Tatarkiewicz. However, such theme matter appeared in a few of his important publications, including his post-doctoral thesis “On inexorability of the good”, after-war publication “On happiness” and a small treatise “Ethical bases of revindication and compensation” justifying Polish claims for reparations after the warfare. Tatarkiewicz made a distinction between physical and spiritual suffering, but each one was always considered as a bad thing. War experience changed his attitude in this matter and therefore he admitted that it is impossible to eliminate suffering from human life and hence he claimed that one can experience happiness even in spite of some negative sensations. Age is not an obstacle to feel it either. However, he pointed out that undeserved suffering justifiably demands a compensation and the lack of it or evasion from redressing the wrong are immoral. One cannot evade a duty of minimizing of suffering because even personal suffering cannot be the reason of drawing back from moral duties fulfillment.
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Emotsiino-otsinnyi pidkhid do doslidzhennia sotsialnoho samopochuttia

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Yeleiko M.
Sotsiolohiia: teoriia, metody, marketyng (Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing)
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2011
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issue 3
138-162
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The author concentrates attention on the approach to the study of social well-being, traditional in science, proceeding from socio-psychological tradition of investigation of this complicated social phenomenon. She rests on the fixation of dominant emotions, senses and moods, satisfaction by life as a whole and by separate spheres of life, determination of integral indices of happiness and certain indices of psychological and social well-being. Main attention is given to the acquaintance with traditional and the newest methods of investigation of social condition of people. In particular, analysis of the methods, determination of advantages and shortcomings of using simple problems and multipoint scales has been performed which allowed for peculiarities of their use in transforming societies.
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WHO IS HAPPY IN POST-SOCIALIST SLOVENIA?: POLITICAL LEGITIMACY AND THE DYNAMIC OF THE “HAPPINESS GAP”

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Malnar B., Kurdija S., Bernik I.
Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied
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2017
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vol. 20
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issue 4
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The article starts from the premise that the legitimacy of the post-socialist order is strongly related to its ability to generate a level of happiness among the lower social strata that is not significantly lower than the happiness enjoyed by the privileged social strata. We used three waves of the Slovenian Public Opinion Survey and seven waves of the European Social Survey to explore the hypothesis that the average level of happiness in Slovenia is higher in the post-socialist period than during the socialist period, due to Slovenia’s relative prosperity and new democratic circumstances. World-wide happiness analyses by Inglehart et al. (2008) also addressed the link between levels of life satisfaction and system legitimacy. The authors conclude that society’s level of well-being is intimately related to the legitimacy of the socioeconomic and political system. In addition to examining the general trend, we set out to explore the social distribution of happiness over time, i.e. the happiness (trend) distinguished by two basic social strata. In light of the transition effect, we explored another explanatory factor; namely optimism. In times of rapid social change an important mediating factor for personal happiness is likely to be the perception of future opportunities. Our analysis confirmed that optimism plays an important role in the subjective self-assessments of happiness. With the exception of health, optimism is the strongest predictor of happiness, which suggests that an optimistic outlook does have the potential to compensate for the current lack of material standards among the ‘losers’ of transition. However, during the period of economic recession which began to affect Slovenia in 2009, the gap has shown a peculiar dynamic. Moreover, even with the recent recovery of economic growth and the cessation of the austerity measures law, some of their elements remain in place and they are precisely those that target primarily the middle class.
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SELF-REASSURANCE, SELF-CRITICISM, AND EYE-TRACKING OF HAPPY FACES

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Strnádelová B., Halamová J., Mentel A.
Studia Psychologica
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2019
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vol. 61
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issue 3
189 – 202
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This study explores the relationship between self-criticism, self-reassurance, and the face scanning patterns participants use to recognize photos of happiness. Forty-two participants were being recorded by eye-trackers while watching photos of happy and neutral facial expressions. Participants also completed the Forms of Self-Criticising/Attacking and Self-Reassuring Scale. The Hated Self score was negatively related to the total fixation duration on the eyes and around the eyes. The Inadequate Self score tended to correlate positively with the total fixation duration time on all examined areas of the face and Reassured Self score tended to correlate positively with the total fixation duration time on the area around the eyes, although none of these correlations appeared to be statistically significant. Being able to distinguish between the more pathological Hated Self form of self-criticism and the less pathological Inadequate Self could improve psychological assessment and intervention evaluations.
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‘I WILL HELP BUT NOT EVERYBODY’ – DONATING TO CHARITY IN A DEFICIT VS. GROWTH CONDITION: THE IMPORTANCE OF WELL-BEING

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Jasielska D., Prusik M., Rajchert J.
Studia Psychologica
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2019
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vol. 61
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issue 4
230 – 244
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This study examined how the reason for donating influences the likelihood of charitable giving and whether well-being and happiness shape this relation. Students (N = 85) were asked to donate to either children struggling with learning (to reduce a deficit) or gifted children (to support growth). We expected that although generally people are more likely to offer money to reduce a deficit than to support growth, with an increase in happiness and well-being the difference in the odds of helping, resulting from these two motivations, would be diminished. The results showed that more people opted to help struggling children than gifted ones. Well-being and happiness were not related to willingness to help. They predicted the amount of support given, although the pattern of results was different for each psychological construct. The results are discussed with reference to a revised cost-reward model of intervention and concepts of wellbeing.
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THE DIFFICULT ART OF TRANSGRESSION. HAPPINESS IN THE THOUGHT OF ALBERT CAMUS (Trudna sztuka przekraczania. Szczescie w ujeciu Alberta Camusa)

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Sawicka J.
Archeus. Studia z bioetyki i antropologii filozoficznej
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2010
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vol. 11
51-62
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The aim of the article is to elucidate the problem of happiness in Albert Camus' reflexion. Analysing Camus' work, the author makes an attempt at finding out possible forms of affirmation of man in the world of indifference, illusion, nonsense and shows the way in which the Camus' man should choose to rejoice at his own existence. This way starts from an act of understanding the absurd, next it leads to a revolt, and finally arrives at the choice of real life and the experience of true happiness in deep connexions with other people.
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QUALITY OF LIFE: A PARADIGMATIC CHALLENGE TO PSYCHOLOGISTS

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Kovac D.
Studia Psychologica
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2003
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vol. 45
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issue 2
81-101
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In implicit psychology, Western culture primarily equates quality of life with good health, a well-functioning family and then with the possession of material goods or mammon - money. According to the political élite in advanced countries, the quality of life is ensured mainly by economy - height of the GDP symbolized mainly by the cost of the shopping basket. But what about the sick, the handicapped and the aging? The non-quality of their life was first noticed by medical experts in the early 30s of the 20th century. They primarily underlined relief from pain - discomfort, independence from medicaments, medical aids, the milieu. More or less in parallel with them, the quality of life also came to be noted by psychologists. Their principal criteria for it came to be subjective experiencing of satisfaction, well-being and happiness. Gradually, the phenomenon of quality of life became a subject of scrutiny by sociologists, environmentalists, political scientists; their numerous criteria for the quality of life are selectively dealt with here. The present study understandably lays stress on the psychological concepts of the quality of life. The principal terms are delimitated in confrontation with the views of various authors, methodical procedures are dealt with as problematic issues and certain methods.The author gives an outline of his own model of the quality of life which, in comparison with existing concepts, and underlines especially the basal (universal) plane, from the individual-specific (civilizing) and meta (cultural-spiritual) level. Quality of life represents a mega-problem for the oncoming epoch of mankind, bringing along paradigmatic changes in psychology, both on the theoretical plane and in application: from psycho-correction, psychotherapy, to optimization and prevention. These are the aims of the new challenge to psychologists for developing positive psychology.
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SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING AND INDIVIDUAL MATERIAL SITUATION IN FOUR COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL EUROPE

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Švorc J.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2018
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vol. 50
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issue 6
727 – 759
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This article deals with the subjective well-being (SWB) and with its association with subjective and objective measures of individual material conditions in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Material conditions are measured by the level of income; relative income approximated by subjective evaluation of one’s own financial situation as compared to most people, as well as to one’s own past financial situation; subjective economic strain; financial problems; ability to afford selected items and housing defects. The statistical analysis is based on data sourced from the third and fourth wave of the European Quality of Life Study. The results show that a better material situation as approximated by the given variables is associated with improved SWB in the Czech Republic and Poland. In Hungary, people in high-income groups are not on average happier and more satisfied with their lives than people in low-income groups, and people who are able to make ends meet are not on average happier and more satisfied than those who are unable. In Slovakia, people in high-income groups are not on average more satisfied with their lives than people in low-income groups, and people evaluating their financial situation favourably as compared to most people in their country are not on average happier and more satisfied with their lives than people evaluating it as worse. The subjective financial situation relative to most people and the subjective economic strain seem to be especially important factors.
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Příslib štěstí a tyranie dokonalosti. Reformy státu v depeších francouzských velvyslanců o vládě Josefa II.

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Ondo Grečenková M.
Folia historica Bohemica
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2012
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vol. 27
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issue 1
155-186
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The elaboration of the study is based on dispatches of French envoys on the Vienna court, which reflect reform activities of Emperor Joseph II. The first section describes the theory of reforms, innovations and modernizations as it was conceived by 18th century authors and questions, which they asked in connection with benefits and “dangers” of the reform activities. The main part concentrates on a debate between the French foreign minister and his envoys regarding a potential success of modernizing projects of French enlighteners based on observation of enlightening reforms implemented by Joseph II in the Habsburg monarchy and by his brother Peter Leopold in Tuscany. Special attention is paid to debates over the reformer’s influence on the success of the reforms and results of “monitoring” the public opinion as regards the benefit of the introduced changes and methods of their implementation.
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