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The effects of socioeconomic status, work-life balance and mental health on happiness among Thai workforces
No full textThesis (Ph.D. (Human Resource and Organization Development))--National Institute of Development Administration, 2017The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between
happiness and mental health (MH), socioeconomic status (SES), work-life balance
(WL), family satisfaction (FS) and community satisfaction (CS). The variables of
happiness are consisted of three components: life satisfaction, positive affect and
negative affect. There are two elements for mental health: mental capacity (coping
ability) and mental quality (kindness and altruism) while socioeconomic status
variable is a composite indicator of education and income. We used the secondary
data from the National Statistics Office of Thailand. The samples are composed of
8,585 voluntary respondents aged 15 years and over. The data were analyzed using
structural equation modelling (SEM) with AMOS version 23.0 in order to test the
relationships of factors affecting happiness.The findings revealed that happiness was significantly correlated with
SES, MH, FS, WL and CS. The correlations between happiness and SES, MH, FS,
WL and CS were .32, .31, .22, .14 and .08, respectively. The total effect of SES, MH,
FS, WL and CS toward happiness were .35, .306, .316, .165 and .216, respectively.
The results suggested that SES, MH and FS were highly correlated with Thai
workforce’s happiness while WL and CS had rather low correlation with happiness.
Mental health which comprising of coping ability, kindness and altruism played an
important role as a partial mediator between happiness and all affecting factors. There was a high statistically significant relationship between FS and CS which the
covariance between FS and CS was 0.34. Moreover, the developed SEM model of
happiness was proved to be able to predict happiness at an acceptable level of 40%
(R2 = 0.4)
The moderating effect of love money on the relationship between socioeconomic status and happiness
No full textThesis (Ph.D. (Human Resource and Organization Development))--National Institute of Development Administration, 2018The objective of this research is to find the moderating effects of love of
money (LOM) on the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and
happiness. In particular, this study explores the relationship not only directly from
SES to happiness, but also indirectly through life domains’ satisfaction, i.e. job,
income and family satisfaction. Additionally, it further studies the moderating roles of
LOM on those indirect or mediated relationships.Data were purposive sampling method collecting 433 samplers from four
different target groups which were selected with the mix of high- and low- income as
well as high- and low- LOM groups. The structural equation modelling technique was
employed. Our finding shows that there is no direct relationship found on SES and
happiness, however, SES indirectly and positively relates to happiness through job,
family and income satisfactions. This suggests a multiple mediated relationship
between SES and happiness. LOM has a negative effect on happiness as well as on
job satisfaction and income satisfaction.In addition, LOM reveals moderating roles on SES-income satisfaction
(strengthening) and job satisfaction-happiness (weakening) relationships. The results
suggest that low LOM people has a mind of contentment because they can be more
satisfied with their income no matter how much they have comparing with high LOM people. On the other hand, high LOM people undermines job satisfaction as a source
of happiness, therefore lowering their overall happiness or life satisfaction
The impacts of corporate social responsibility, quality of work life and job-related outcomes in Thailand
No full textThesis (Ph.D. (Human Resource and Organization Development))--National Institute of Development Administration, 2016The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts among corporate social
responsibility (CSR) , quality of work life ( QWL) and job-related outcomes (JRO) ,
including organizational performance ( OP) as both financial performance ( FP) and
subjective organizational performance ( SP) or the employee’ s perception on
organizational performance, job satisfaction (JS) and organizational commitment (OC)
in order to maintain the attention of the organizations in Thailand towards this areaTo accomplish this purpose and to test the hypotheses, the research focused on
the sample frame, designed from 49 listed organizations as in manufacturing, services
and trading sectors. These organizations were recognized for good practices in CSR,
revealed in the project of Thai Listed Companies Association and Thaipat Institute.
The study was conducted in sequential explanatory design, mainly in quantitative
approach. Data were collected from online questionnaire distributed to 1,225
respondents as the participant targets. The response yielded 633 usable questionnaires
or 51.7 percent response rate. The main research findings included: ( a) the positive
relationship among CSR, quality of work life, and job-related outcomes (subjective
organizational performance, job satisfaction and organizational commitment), (b) all
CSR categories have a positive impact on higher-order quality of work life, while only business-practice CSR has a positive impact on lower-order quality of work life, (c)
product-related features CSR has a positive impact on job satisfaction, whereas
philanthropic CSR has a positive impact on organizational commitment and (d) the
employees who have never participated in CSR activities have lower quality of work
life, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and subjective organizational
performance than those who have ever participatedIn order to explore the reasons behind the mentioned relationship, the semistructured interview was then conducted with six participants from six organizations
in different dimensions of size and industry. The results showed that philanthropic
CSR represented the key CSR activities in the organizations, whereas both businesspractice and product-related features CSR have been growing for the achievement in
sustainability. However, although CSR-participated employees were proud to
contribute in those CSR activities and practices, there were some negative perceptions
on some CSR practices and activities that can generate the returns or any benefit back
to the organizations.The findings in this study supported to the momentum of positive impacts
shown in previous studies but with specifically focused on the perception of
employees towards each category of CSR; therefore, this research suggested that the
organization should plan and design their CSR activities and practices in order to
drive the positive impacts on quality of work life and job-related outcomes in all
aspects. Additionally, the organization should pay attention on CSR contribution by
emphasizing business practices and product-related features, along the path of
sustainable developmentHowever, some limitations of this study should be noted. Firstly, this study
focused only the listed organizations with good practices in CSR, future studies on
SMEs or emerging organizations are suggested in order to justify the generalizations
made for the study on CSR in Thailand. Secondly, as shown in the findings, both CSR
and quality of work life have no relationship with short-term financial performance.
Instead, by emphasizing on the way of sustainability, long-term organizational performance should also be explored; so, longitudinal studies are also suggested.
Thirdly, this study measured only three variables representing job-related outcomes;
therefore, further research should expand to investigate the impacts on other
outcomes, for instance, absenteeism, productivity, turnover rate and product-andservice quality
Change in factor endowments and comparative advantage of Thailand: 1975-1985.
No full textChange in factor endowments and comparative advantage of Thailand: 1975-1985
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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