Browsing by Subject "Well-being"

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    Benefits of fiber-enriched foods on satiety and parameters of human well-being in adults with and without cardiometabolic risk
    (2023) Ehret, Janine; Brandl, Beate; Schweikert, Karsten; Rennekamp, Rachel; Ströbele-Benschop, Nanette; Skurk, Thomas; Hauner, Hans
    Consumption of fiber-rich foods is linked to beneficial effects on chronic diseases and gut health, while implications towards improving satiety and parameters of well-being remain unclear. A randomized placebo-controlled intervention study was conducted to compare the effects of fiber-enriched foods to their non-enriched counterparts in adults over a 12-week period on selected clinical parameters—satiety, quality of life, body sensation, and life satisfaction—subjective health status, and importance of diet for well-being. Quality of life (QOL) differed significantly between intervention and control groups at baseline, throughout, and at the end of the study. No effects on satiety, satisfaction with life, or the importance of diet for well-being could be shown between groups. With higher fiber intake, body sensation ratings increased. A higher BMI was significantly associated with lower-body sensation, subjective health status and quality of life. Fiber-enriched foods do not seem to affect feeling of satiety or parameters of well-being. Larger samples and additional methods are necessary to fully explore the effect of increased fiber intake on patient-related outcomes in more detail.
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    Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator : inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income
    (2020) Yamey, Gavin; Prettner, Klaus; Ogbuoji, Osondu; Kufenko, Vadim; Fan, Victoria Y.; Bloom, David E.
    Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a “good life,” such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can be calculated with manageable data requirements. Against this backdrop, a need exists for a measure of well-being that preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to fill this gap and calculate it for 149 countries.
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    Job insecurity, employability, and health : an analysis for germany across generations
    (2014) Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso
    In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health, and this association is quite strong. This negative effect of job insecurity is, in many cases, exacerbated by poor employability.
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    Preschool child care and child well-being in Germany : does the migrant experience differ?
    (2017) Kaiser, Micha; Bauer, Jan M.
    Because the value of preschool child care is under intensive debate among both policy - makers and society in general,this paper analyzes the relation between preschool care and the well-being of children and adolescents in Germany. It also examines differences in outcomes based on child socioeconomic background by focusing on the heterogeneous effects for migrant children. Our findings, based on data from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey of Children and Adolescents, suggest that children who have experienced child care have a slightly lower well-being overall. For migrant children, however, the outcomes indicate a positive relation.
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    The deep imprint of Roman sandals : evidence of long-lasting effectsof Roman rule on personality, economic performance, and well-beingin Germany
    (2020) Wyrwich, Michael; Wahl, Fabian; Obschonka, Martin; Fritsch, Michael
    We investigate whether the Roman presence in the southern part of Germany nearly 2,000 years ago had a deep imprinting effect with long run consequences on a broad spectrum of measures ranging from present-day personality profiles to a number of socioeconomic outcomes and why. Today’s populations living in the former Roman part of Germany score indeed higher on certain personality traits, have higher life and health satisfaction, longer life expectancy, generate more inventions and behave in a more entrepreneurial way. These findings help explain that regions under Roman rule have higher present-day levels of economic development in terms of GDP per capita. The effects hold when controlling for other potential historical influences. When addressing potential channels of a long term effect of Roman rule the data indicates that the Roman road network plays an important role as a mechanism in the imprinting that is still perceptible today.
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    Wohlbefinden als neue Erfolgsgröße im Dienstleistungsmanagement : eine Analyse von Kunden- und Mitarbeiterwohlbefinden im Dienstleistungskontext
    (2019) Falter, Mareike; Hadwich, Karsten
    Currently, a paradigm shift from a customer-centered mindset to humanistic marketing takes place in science and practice. Thereby, individual, collective and social wellbeing plays a significant role. In service management, the subject area of transformative service research, which serves as a starting point for social transformation with regard to improving our society and environment, has been established. However, current research about wellbeing as a new success factor in the service context is very limited or incomplete. The present study’s central aim is therefore to make a scientific contribution to the topic of wellbeing in the service context, and to give practical implications for service managers, companies and political decision-makers with regard to service design, in order to create a positive impact on individual and social wellbeing. Subsequently, chapter 2 includes an analysis of wellbeing in the context of internal service marketing. This article aims to analyze the effects of digitalization in the work environment on employee wellbeing. The results show that with a high degree of digitalization in an employee’s work environment, the fulfilment of the basic needs competence, autonomy and human relationships decreases, as opposed to a work environment with a medium or low degree of digitalization. Mediation analysis reveals that employee satisfaction is not only influenced by digitalization in the work environment. These findings suggest that looking beyond indicators for employee satisfaction and taking psychological employee wellbeing as a new success factor into account benefits service management. Thus, by surveying employee wellbeing, additional determining factors can be identified in order to further explain employees’ reactions and behavior, and to create a pleasant work environment that serves employees and their individual needs. In the third chapter, wellbeing is considered as a new success factor in external service marketing. The study aims to analyze the effect of buying from social enterprises on consumer wellbeing, as in comparison with buying from other business models. Four experiments were conducted. The results of the variance analysis clearly show that buying products or services from a social enterprise increases consumer wellbeing, in comparison to buying from profit-oriented companies or companies with CSR activities. Accordingly, the present study gives an indication that a social enterprise not only represents a suitable business model for improving societal wellbeing or protecting the environment, but also brings wellbeing to the consumers themselves. Moreover, the results show that consumer wellbeing depends on the mission, or the objective of the business model. No significant differences between the purchase of products or services regarding consumer wellbeing occur. This finding especially widens the discussion about whether consumption of material goods as opposed to experiences increases wellbeing. The authors emphasize the significance of social enterprises and encourage managers and political decision-makers to invest in social enterprises. Chapter 4 contains an analysis of wellbeing in interactive service marketing. Its objective is to conceptualize and operationalize customer wellbeing in customer-employee-interaction in the service context, and thus develop a suitable measurement tool. Along the scale development process by Churchill (1979), the customer service wellbeing scale is developed. Hence, the measurement tool customer service wellbeing consists of the following five dimensions: positive emotions during the service process, engagement during the service process, (good) relationships with the service employees, meaning and accomplishment of the service, and absence of negative emotions during the service process. The results show that the customer service wellbeing scale, as compared to established dimensions, yields an important explanatory contribution in the service context. Furthermore, the study provides valuable findings regarding the scientific discourse on the bottom-up-spillover theory, and the suspected connection of individual consumption situations affecting superordinate areas of life, and therefore contribute to people’s overall life satisfaction. In chapter five, the author finally takes up all findings obtained, and illustrates how relevant it is to incorporate wellbeing as a new success factor in service management. It is emphasized that a consideration of wellbeing in the service context allows for further developing the design of sustainable services, for promoting services with a social value and impact, for creating a suitable work environment for employees, and last but not least for valuing individuals with their personalities and needs, instead of merely focusing on a calculable consumer.