- Title
- Collaboration vouchers: a policy to increase population wellbeing
- Creator
- Heslop, Benjamin; Drew, Antony; Stojanovski, Elizabeth; Bailey, Kylie; Paul, Jonathan
- Relation
- Societies Vol. 8, Issue 2, no. 37
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc8020037
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- While economic liberalism has delivered national wealth, substantial portions of the population have been left behind. The precariously and unemployed experience reduced wellbeing that may be remedied by their greater involvement in egalitarian, purposive collaborative groups. Policy to achieve this objective may be assisted by an understanding of how positive psychology interacts with social psychology. The PILAR model of collaboration is postulated to translate between an individual’s psychological capital (PsyCap) and their meeting of basic psychological needs (BPN). In a proposed cyclical model, a collaborating individual will meet BPN, thereby experience enhanced wellbeing, which bolsters PsyCap, and hence promotes further collaboration. Given collaboration is amenable to incentivisation, a policy of collaboration vouchers might cost-effectively promote individual wellbeing throughout society, whilst having complementary effects such as social cohesion
- Subject
- positive psychology; basic psychological needs; psychological capital; PILAR; collaboration; universal basic income; wellbeing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1398461
- Identifier
- uon:34436
- Identifier
- ISSN:2075-4698
- Rights
- © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
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