The relationship between innovation and subjective wellbeing
By Paul Dolan, Robert Metcalfe. 2012
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Innovation should improve people's lives. The links made between innovation and subjective wellbeing (SWB) have, however, rarely been made. We use a representative survey of the British population and new primary data to explore the relationship between innovation and SWB. We show that creativity and SWB are correlated. This applies to questions related to self-reported creativity and for working in creative environments. More research is needed to determine the relative effects of each direction of causality in the relationship between innovation and SWB in the workplace and in life generally.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
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- Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-Being (2015, background): “20 corroborate Dolan and Metcalfe‟s (2012) results that show a positive association between innovation and well-being.”
- Do hotel employees really care for corporate social responsibility (CSR): a happiness approach to employee innovativeness (2021, background): “Dolan and Metcalfe (2012) proposed that subjective well-being and creativity are correlated; however, they call for further research to determine the direction of causality.”
- Measuring the impact of innovative human capital on small firms' propensity to innovate (2015, background): “The subjective characteristics of the individual have also emerged in the innovation literature recently where, for example, the relationship between innovation and subjective wellbeing is examined (Dolan and Metcalfe, 2012).”