Feeling miserable isn't always attributed to one specific cause; in fact, according to a study from the journal Kyklos, it can be a side effect of many things, from mental illness, to poverty, and ...

A job that you hate can be emotionally draining. While there’s a lot of negative discourse about professional environments these days, with many attempting to convince most workers that they have to ...

Would you say some people or most people are miserable? It’s hard to tell these days. With all the fake drama everyone seems to be indulging in, one has a difficult time telling whether or not people ...

The huge number of books about how to better your career astounds me. I sometimes wonder if there really is anything new worth writing about. But last year I read a book that seemed cheesy on the ...

In Gallup's latest report on workplace engagement, Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO wrote that “16% of employees are actively disengaged — they are miserable in the workplace." If you are absolutely ...

It’s eventually going to happen. Though we’ve been riding this happiness train in psychology for a long time now, at some point the pendulum is going to swing: Miserable will become the new happy, old ...

Patrick Lencioni, renowned business consultant and bestselling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, knows a thing or two about organizational health. Through the story of a CEO turned pizzeria ...

More than a half-century ago, in 1952, when positive psychology set off a wave of religiously inspired self-help in the U.S. with the release of Norman Vincent Peale’s popular bestseller The Power of ...

It is essential for policy-makers to have a read of their constituents’ well-being, as viewed through the lens of economic statistics. Author’s note: Below is the latest installment of Hanke’s Annual ...