Happier individuals are better connected to their family, express positive stands on teachers, professors, sport workers and members of some nations.
Personal Stands and Wellbeing
Results confirm that happiness is affected by certain personal stands and characteristics of research participants such as those indicating openness to new experiences, being people loving, optimistic, positive, future and present focused, knowledge oriented, relaxed, creative, helping, just and empathetic.
Initiation of media addiction
Increase in media use places question of media addiction as important issue for general quality of life. In those terms there is an assumption that personal characteristics in combination with stressful situations cause repression of inner impulses, thus provoking some psychological conditions such as depression, anxiety or loneliness.
Classification of media addiction
Appearance of social networks opened new realms of life simulation, potentially boosting media addictions. Because of appearance and widespread use of new media, there is a need to explore potential hazards of such activities, one of them being media addiction.
Social networks in logistics system decision-making
Social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have been becoming very popular during the last few years. Facebook is currently the world’s most populous “country” with more than 1 .3 billion “ inhabitants”. According to the statistical data, the users share their impressions daily in the form of statuses about upcoming events and present state of affairs, their problems, plans, novel experiences about the products, political stances, and alike.
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Media and political persuasion
Public opinion is important for political decisions. Politicians change public attitudes. They often turn public disagreement to predominant support for some policies (Mutz, etal. 1996). Long term change of political attitudes is caused by slow development of personality types (Riesman 1950). Research efforts in the field of political persuasion were based on personality stability, rather than media influence. On the other hand, changes in public opinion and social conditions occur frequently.
Media addiction and political participation
This exploratory study seeks to expand previous research by addressing the main research hypothesis that increase in media addiction causes decrease in political participation.
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Media addiction by using universal indicators
The addiction is defined as a dependence on a behavior or substance that a person is powerless to stop.
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