"People often act against their wellbeing.
Researchers speculate that tight community bonds and high diversity of age and ethnicity may act as a buffer against low wellbeing, although they caution the pilot study's small sample size makes such ward-by-ward comparisons tenuous.
They are already at war against the wellbeing of our Earth.
When a person needing assistance votes against his own wellbeing, he might therefore think he's voting against lazy or otherwise unsympathetic people and not against himself.
While our defanged democracies provide ballot boxes, elected representatives feel free to ignore mass demonstrations and work against the general wellbeing, deploying lies and hysteria where necessary (from WMDs to "we are broke").
While studying for his PhD at the LSE he devised and developed Mappiness, an iPhone app-based research project designed to measure wellbeing against environmental factors in a new way, and on a much larger scale than previously attempted.
The report, which looks at 176 countries, assesses mothers' wellbeing against the same five indicators: lifetime risk of maternal death, under-five mortality rate, expected number of years of formal schooling, gross national income per capita and the participation of women in national government (see page 77 for details on the methodology).
Although negative ones are emphasised in public accounts such as local authority consultations, in more deliberative settings (such as focus groups), participants balanced these implications for personal wellbeing against broader determinants of health, such as carbon emission reduction and divesting resources to spend on other services, which might accrue from reduced energy expenditure.
This provided an opportunity for dynamic analysis of economic and wellbeing effects, against a backdrop of increased divergence in the wider national settings.
In a homily on Monday in the Vatican guesthouse where he lives, the Argentinian pontiff railed against "a culture of wellbeing" which he said had convinced some people they were better off shunning procreation and getting a pet instead.
