SEARCH RESULTS   Found 25 text references: 1. " These are substantial reasons, I believe, for concluding that adaptation with regard to marital status is less than complete, that the formation of unions has a lasting positive effect on happiness, and that dissolution has a permanently negative effect." Source:   Easterlin, Richard A. "The economics of happiness" Daedalus 133.2 Mar. 22 2004: 26-34 2. "... the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT, good; and that in every political institution, a power to advance the public happiness involves a discretion which may be misapplied and abused." Source:   THOMAS, GEORGE. "As Far as Republican Principles Will Admit: Presidential Prerogative and Constitutional Government" Presidential Studies Quarterly 30.3 Sept. 1 2000: 534 3. "... people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." Source:   . "The Declaration of Independence" Washington Times July 4 1999: 2 4. " Child self-concept was measured using the Piers-Harris Self-Concept Scale (PH), an 80-item scale measuring children's perceptions of themselves that provided a total self-concept score and subscale scores measuring behavior, intellectual and school status, physical appearance, anxiety, popularity, and happiness and satisfaction (Piers, 1984)." Source:   McNelis, Angela M.,Huster, Gertrude A.,Michel, Marti,Hollingsworth, Judy,Eigen, Howard,Austin, Joan K. "Factors Associated With Self-Concept in Children With Asthma" Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 13.2 Apr. 1 2000: 55 5. " Recognition that needs are "linked to status" raises a most uncomfortable question: Are physicians the opportunists or dupes of a consumption system, or are they heroic innovators of new possibilities of human happiness?" Source:   FRANK, ARTHUR W. "All the Things Which Do Not Fit: Baudrillard and Medical Consumerism" Families, Systems & Health 18.2 June 22 2000: 205 6. " We all know that the tenor of our social life impacts our happiness." Pre-teens are more likely to care openly about social status." Source:   Lach, Jennifer. "toplines; In the Mind of the Beholder" American Demographics May 1 2000 7. " Can practitioners realistically advocate material simplicity--connecting personal practices to worldwide development--in a culture that equates status and personal happiness with material acquisition?" Source:   Walz, Tom,Ritchie, Heather. "Gandhian Principles in Social Work Practice: Ethics Revisited" Social Work 45.3 May 1 2000: 213 8. " Tong et al (1987) found that sexually abused children rated themselves lower than comparison children on self-concept regarding intellectual and school status, physical appearance and attributes, anxiety, popularity, happiness, and satisfaction." Source:   Margolin, Gayla,Gordis, Elana B. "THE EFFECTS OF FAMILY AND COMMUNITY VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN" Annual Review of Psychology Jan. 1 2000: 445 9. " The researchers looked at how the work status of both the husband and wife affected the marriage and their happiness with retirement." Source:   Tuttle, Erica. "New retirees face conflict with spouse: Best solution may be return to work" Washington Times Aug. 24 1999: 7 10. " Black women need to know the contradictions and ironies that our unique status presents to a country founded on the proposition that all men are created equal and endowed with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and opportunity to pursue happiness." Source:   Hine, Darlene Clark,Hannah, John A. "Black Women Need The Power of History to Fuel the Future" Black Issues in Higher Education 16.7 May 27 1999: 80 11. " Generally speaking, people in seemingly uninteresting, low-status jobs report levels of happiness and life satisfaction that are quite comparable to those of individuals in high-status occupations." Source:   Clausen, Christopher. "Against work" American Scholar 73.4 Sept. 22 2004: 133-139 12. "... depression history groups did not differ with respect to age, race, education, income, menopausal status, or current reports of relationship happiness." Source:   Cyranowski, Jill M.,Bromberger, Joyce,Youk, Ada,Matthews, Karen,Kravitz, Howard M.,Powell, Lynda H. "Lifetime depression history and sexual function in women at midlife" Archives of Sexual Behavior 33.6 Dec. 1 2004: 539-549 13. " The first is that people of low status are paying a higher price, in terms of health, happiness, opportunity and self-image, than before." Source:   Reeves, Richard. "'The honours system, far from being abolished, should be hugely expanded': in our society, high status depends too much on money. We need more diverse ways of sharing out esteem, so that all can have prizes, argues Richard Reeves" New Statesman (1996) 133.4713 Nov. 8 2004: 33-36 14. " Evolution of a Balanced, Aligned Use of the Power of Thought Buss (2000) discusses youthful mental health and happiness from an evolutionary perspective citing several major obstacles or barriers to happiness and well-being for American adolescents." Source:   Kelley, Thomas M. "Positive psychology and adolescent mental health: false promise or true breakthrough?" Adolescence 39.154 June 22 2004: 257-279 15. "... human happiness; I think you have them both at present; take care to keep them; :it is in your power to do it (Stanhope 1901, 2:424)." Source:   Mieder, Wolfgang. ""A Man of Fashion Never Has Recourse to Proverbs": Lord Chesterfield's Tilting at Proverbial Windmills" Folklore 111.1 Apr. 1 2000: 23 16. " Born in 1950 to a father and mother who were active National Socialists in Austria even before Hitler's rise to power in Germany, Haider has always stressed the happiness of his childhood and his respect for his parents and their entire..." Source:   Wistrich, Robert S. "Haider and His Critics" Commentary 109.4 Apr. 1 2000: 30 17. "... should have maximal authority and minimal power," and a longer one, "Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults." " Source:   Goode, Stephen. "Szasz Says So" Insight on the News 16.28 July 31 2000: 4 18. "... the existence of such a power, which apportions happiness in accordance with a human being's merit or guilt, a power ordering the whole of nature and governing the world with supreme wisdom? that is, any grounds for believing in God? (6:482)." Source:   Firestone, Chris L. "Kant and religion: conflict or compromise?" Religious Studies 35.2 June 1 1999: 151-153 19. " Still, the reserves of general moderation remain pretty strong in the United States, especially in the continuing power of the Lockean bargain whereby the pursuit of private happiness is understood to be conditioned on mutual tolerance in public life." Source:   Baumann, Fred. "Our fractious foreign policy debate" Public Interest .157 Sept. 22 2004: 67-85 20. "... all kinds are more traumatic." Valuing intimacy more, income and power less, would counter this "loss of happiness." But how to bring that about, how to promote companionship rather than economic growth or procedural equality as a societal norm?" Source:   Scialabba, George. "The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age ofPlenty" American Prospect 11.20 Sept. 11 2000: 50 21. " These experiences help explain why he hailed so enthusiastically the American notion that the end of government is liberty, not happiness, or prosperity, or power,..." Source:   CLAUSEN, CHRISTOPHER. "Lord Acton and the Lost Cause" American Scholar 69.1 Jan. 1 2000: 49 22. "... all kinds are more traumatic." Valuing intimacy more, income and power less, would counter this "loss of happiness." But how to bring that about, how to promote companionship rather than economic growth or procedural equality as a societal norm?" Source:   Scialabba, George. "The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies" American Prospect 11.20 Sept. 11 2000: 50 23. " The Declaration of Independence proclaims that "governments are instituted" to secure the rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," and that those governments "derive their just powers from the..." Source:   . "Thankful for America; U.S. is decidedly different" Washington Times Nov. 25 2004: 21 24. " Philosophers from Francis Bacon to John Dewey have emphasized the increased power over nature that scientific knowledge affords and how it can contribute immeasurably to human advancement and happiness." Source:   Kurtz, Paul. "Humanist Manifesto 2000" Free Inquiry 19.4 Sept. 22 1999: 5 25. " As a consequence, as the number of political critiques of the play has grown, so too has grown in some circles the suspicion that disaffection with the play's happiness can only emerge from the over-determined, if not anachronistic..." Source:   Conlan, J.P. "The Fey Beauty of A Midsummer Night's Dream: a Shakespearean comedy in its courtly context" Shakespeare Studies 32 Jan. 1 2004: 118-173 back to top