Introduction: Threats to Well-Being During the Covid-19 Pandemic -- Part I: The Impact of Covid-19 on Life Satisfaction and Happiness: Comparative and Longitudinal Perspectives -- The Impact of Covid-19 on Life Satisfaction: A Cross-National, Long Term Perspective -- Happiness Trends Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia: Assessing the Influence of Charitable Donations and Pandemic Severity -- The Well-Being of Young People in Europe During the Pandemic: The Social Ties, Labor Market Integration, and the Social Inequalities -- Part II: The Impact of Covid-19 on Employment and Workers’ Well-Being -- Employment Vulnerabilities of Female and Young Adults in Arab Countries: Trends Since the Onset 0f Covid-19 -- The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Faculty Well-Being: A Study of Academic Staff at Three Colleges in New York State -- Limited Social Contact at Work During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Shift Worker's Health and Well-Being -- Part III: Sociability, Civic Participation and Solidarity During the Pandemic -- The Pandemic Effects on Sociability and Well-Being of Low-Income Adolescents in Mexico -- The Latent Classes of the Volunteer Satisfaction Index and Donation During the Pandemic in Singapore -- Covid-19 and Community-Based Volunteerism: How the Rohingya Volunteers Acted for Community Engagement to Fight Against the Pandemic in Rohingya Refugee Camps of Bangladesh -- Part IV: The Impact of Covid-19 on Children’s Well-Being -- Children’s Well-Being During the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Exploratory Study Among 10–12 Year Old School Children in Bangladesh -- Children’s Profiles of Subjective Well-Being Change During the Covid-19 Pandemic and its Correlates: A Multi-National Study -- The Impact of Covid-19 on Young People’s Levels of Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Hilda 2001–2020.

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This open access book focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being, happiness and quality of life, taking into account the mediating effects of social inequalities. The volume brings together and into dialogue the different experiences and perspectives of countries and researchers from the Global North and South. Expert scholars from across the world have analyzed empirical data to reveal how the restrictions associated with the pandemic interrupted lives and livelihoods, and how different socio-economic groups and classes have been differently affected by the crisis. The chapters coalesce around four themes: the impact of COVID-19 on subjective well-being, life satisfaction and happiness in a comparative and longitudinal perspective; the impact of COVID-19 on employment and workers’ well-being; sociability, civic participation and solidarity during COVID-19; and the impact of COVID-19 on children’s and youths’ well-being. Engaging with contemporary theoretical debates on well-being, happiness and quality of life, this volume is of interest to scholars working on well-being, happiness and quality of life, global and cross-national studies, the social impact of COVID-19, and on social and economic change.

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