By Christie Napa Scollon, Laura A. King (auth.), Robert Biswas-Diener (eds.)
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So that’s problem No. 2: we are living an unsustainable way of life. The third issue of primary importance is that despite the fact that people in western developed countries are consuming far more material goods they are not getting any happier. For example consumer expenditure in the UK has nearly doubled since the early 1970s but levels of life satisfaction have remained resolutely flat (World Database of Happiness, 2010). This might be explained by the fact that it seems that people are becoming more materialistic in their expectations of life (Myers, 2000) and it is well known that being highly materialistic has much negative impact – for example, poorer personal relationships, lower self-esteem, and fewer good moods (Kasser, 2006).
Are they celebrated, trained, promoted? Through what social networks, personnel, and events are happiness viruses transmitted? Could some of the knowledge generated by the Positive Psychology N. uk R. V. 2011 33 34 N. Thin movement help people to promote happiness more efficiently and responsibly? Could Positive Psychology itself be enriched by taking more careful account of the social processes, the cultural endorsements, and the institutions involved in joy spreading? How do the pursuits and provisioning of other goods such as wealth, knowledge, health, and status interact and intersect with the pursuit and provisioning of happiness?
Example 2: Creating (Almost) Real-Time Feedback Loops for Organisational Change: Well-Being@Work The HPI is directly related to all three issues of primary importance outlined earlier and uses some insights from systems theory and positive psychology to raise awareness and create some critical reflection. For the HPI to galvanise genuine positive social change, however, it faces two major challenges. First, it is, in reality, an advocacy index produced using existing data sources on very small budgets and published by a UK think tank.