Well-being and culture – an indissoluble combination
A recently published research study analyses the deep bond between cultural activities and “good life”
The paper provides an overview that attempts to outline different paths for “building well-being” over ten years of Italian history, starting with the economy and moving on to other different spheres, such as those of health, culture and psychology.
Well-being as the building block for a “good life”. and culture as a tool to attain a more wholesome feeling of well-being permeating our life. An important combination. for enterprises, too, and for the attainment of a corporate and production culture not purely focused on profit, and one that may find greater substantiation when scrutinised by scientific research. This is what Giorgio Tavano Blessi, Federica Viganò and Enzo Grossi attempted to achieve in “Il ruolo della cultura nella costruzione del benessere. Evidenze a livello nazionale 2008-2018” (“The role of culture in building well-being. National evidence 2008-2018”), a research study recently published in journal Sociologia urbana e rurale (Urban and rural sociology).
Tavano Blessi and his colleagues start from an observation: the topic of well-being is increasingly drawing the attention of academic studies because relevant in terms of individual and collective functioning. If we share this assumption, we can then surmise that what determines “well-being” can be analysed and find application in regional policies and communities.
Thus, the research study investigates the elements that constitute individual mental well-being in order to identify the most critical ones. A work undertaken on two levels: first of all, the work looks at the relevant literature, and then at statistical data gathered in two different years (2008 and 2018) in order to quantify the significance of factors generating well-being and finally assess how they may change.
As such, this paper allows to determine the underlying impact of culture – understood as the activities undertaken by individuals in their free time – and how it can represent one of the most relevant factors on individual well-being, explicitly illustrating the role it can play as a possible tool applicable to regional policies at the service of individuals and society – something that, by the by, is also significantly affected by socially responsible corporate operations.
Il ruolo della cultura nella costruzione del benessere. Evidenze a livello nazionale 2008-2018 (“The role of culture in building well-being. National evidence 2008-2018”)
Giorgio Tavano Blessi, Federica Viganò, Enzo Grossi
Sociologia urbana e rurale, 2023/130
A recently published research study analyses the deep bond between cultural activities and “good life”
The paper provides an overview that attempts to outline different paths for “building well-being” over ten years of Italian history, starting with the economy and moving on to other different spheres, such as those of health, culture and psychology.
Well-being as the building block for a “good life”. and culture as a tool to attain a more wholesome feeling of well-being permeating our life. An important combination. for enterprises, too, and for the attainment of a corporate and production culture not purely focused on profit, and one that may find greater substantiation when scrutinised by scientific research. This is what Giorgio Tavano Blessi, Federica Viganò and Enzo Grossi attempted to achieve in “Il ruolo della cultura nella costruzione del benessere. Evidenze a livello nazionale 2008-2018” (“The role of culture in building well-being. National evidence 2008-2018”), a research study recently published in journal Sociologia urbana e rurale (Urban and rural sociology).
Tavano Blessi and his colleagues start from an observation: the topic of well-being is increasingly drawing the attention of academic studies because relevant in terms of individual and collective functioning. If we share this assumption, we can then surmise that what determines “well-being” can be analysed and find application in regional policies and communities.
Thus, the research study investigates the elements that constitute individual mental well-being in order to identify the most critical ones. A work undertaken on two levels: first of all, the work looks at the relevant literature, and then at statistical data gathered in two different years (2008 and 2018) in order to quantify the significance of factors generating well-being and finally assess how they may change.
As such, this paper allows to determine the underlying impact of culture – understood as the activities undertaken by individuals in their free time – and how it can represent one of the most relevant factors on individual well-being, explicitly illustrating the role it can play as a possible tool applicable to regional policies at the service of individuals and society – something that, by the by, is also significantly affected by socially responsible corporate operations.
Il ruolo della cultura nella costruzione del benessere. Evidenze a livello nazionale 2008-2018 (“The role of culture in building well-being. National evidence 2008-2018”)
Giorgio Tavano Blessi, Federica Viganò, Enzo Grossi
Sociologia urbana e rurale, 2023/130