Arie Sherman and Tal Shavit, “The Thrill of Creative Effort at Work: An
Empirical Study on Work, Creative Effort and Well-Being.” Journal of
Happiness Studies 19(7): 2049–2069, October 2018 [pdf].
• Maybe work isn’t just a means to the end of having money? Could it be that there are some non-pecuniary benefits of work?
• Sherman and Shavit suggest that workers might invest creative effort to build up their “hedonic capital.”
• They survey 922 Israeli adults who are salaried employees (that is, not self-employed). The idea is to see if those who invest more creative effort at work (for the purpose of making work more enjoyable) have higher subjective well-being.
• The authors check four measures (on 0-to-10 scales) of subjective well-being: overall satisfaction; meaning and purpose; positive feelings; and, negative feelings.
• The results indicate that creative effort (self-rated on a 1-to-7 scale) at work improves subjective well-being (SWB) when SWB is measured as life satisfaction, meaning and purpose, or positive affect.
• Creative and intellectual work raises SWB.
• Good health and financial satisfaction raise SWB; income does not aid meaning and purpose.
• Having children does not raise SWB but does add meaning and purpose.
• There are U-shaped age effects on SWB and positive affect (that is, there's a trough in midlife), but not for meaning and purpose.
• Good health, financial satisfaction, and religiosity all seem to reduce negative affect.
• Maybe work isn’t just a means to the end of having money? Could it be that there are some non-pecuniary benefits of work?
• Sherman and Shavit suggest that workers might invest creative effort to build up their “hedonic capital.”
• They survey 922 Israeli adults who are salaried employees (that is, not self-employed). The idea is to see if those who invest more creative effort at work (for the purpose of making work more enjoyable) have higher subjective well-being.
• The authors check four measures (on 0-to-10 scales) of subjective well-being: overall satisfaction; meaning and purpose; positive feelings; and, negative feelings.
• The results indicate that creative effort (self-rated on a 1-to-7 scale) at work improves subjective well-being (SWB) when SWB is measured as life satisfaction, meaning and purpose, or positive affect.
• Creative and intellectual work raises SWB.
• Good health and financial satisfaction raise SWB; income does not aid meaning and purpose.
• Having children does not raise SWB but does add meaning and purpose.
• There are U-shaped age effects on SWB and positive affect (that is, there's a trough in midlife), but not for meaning and purpose.
• Good health, financial satisfaction, and religiosity all seem to reduce negative affect.
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