Worries and dissatisfaction. Structural challenges for future development
Worries and dissatisfaction. Structural challenges for future development

Summary/Abstract: This article is a résumé of mainly sociological research on worries, anxieties and pain. Quality of life research is primarily concerned with positive well-being like satisfaction and happiness. In contrast, this contribution is concerned with negative well-being like worries, anxieties, pain, also dissatisfaction and similar burdens. The method used here depends on the patchwork approach and summarizes research from the past 50 years on worrying features of societies. No new data are available for this work, however, I regard existing data which I put into a new frame of reference and reorganize according to my questions. Unavoidably, we have to cope with significant error margins, but the goal is to illustrate a complex problem as reliably as possible today.

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