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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest update — now expanded to 156 nations — on a metric of well-being as viewed through the lens of economics The human condition lies on a vast spectrum between “miserable” and “happy.” In the ...

Life's hard, there's no doubt about it — but we have a certain level of control over how we react to the things thrown at us. Whether that be our attitude in the morning, our decisions throughout the ...

James Pethokoukis is a columnist at AEIdeas, the blog of the American Enterprise Institute, and a CNBC contributor. He is on Twitter. Updated September 8, 2015, 3:32 AM Market capitalism has done ...

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 ...