{"id":29278,"date":"2021-06-18T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T04:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/?p=29278"},"modified":"2021-06-18T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T04:11:56","slug":"undergrads-and-the-3am-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2021\/06\/18\/undergrads-and-the-3am-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergrads and the 3am Email"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From his teaching experience at the National University of Singapore, Senior Lecturer Georgios Georgiou (NUS Economics) explains that it is not uncommon for students to send him emails in the wee hours of the morning. He wonders whether these habits are associated with the students\u2019 many responsibilities and investigates their happiness levels. In The Straits Times<\/em>\u2019 Ask NUS Economists Series, Dr. Georgios Georgiou answers the question, \u201cAre undergraduates happier than the average Singaporeans?\u201d<\/p>\n

The United Nations publishes an annual report ranking countries according to their happiness. According to the report, Singapore experienced a decrease in average happiness from 2015 to 2018. This also caused Singapore to fall behind in global happiness rankings \u2014 from 22nd<\/sup> in 2015 to 34th<\/sup> in 2017. While Singapore\u2019s happiness level is not consistent with the fact that it is one of the richest countries in the world, Dr. Georgiou notes that this is in line with the experiences of affluent East Asian countries such as Japan and Korea.<\/p>\n

From his surveys gauging the happiness levels of Singapore\u2019s university students, Dr. Georgiou discovered that undergraduates were consistently registering happiness levels that were lower than Singapore\u2019s average, suggesting that the average student was indeed unhappier than the average Singaporean. An even more surprising finding is when adjusting happiness levels for international students on their exchange programs in Singapore, he discovered that the average happiness levels of local students would be even lower than the national average. This is attributed to the fact that international exchange students participating in the survey were pulling up the average happiness level.<\/p>\n

Dr. Georgiou asserts that the survey results of Singaporean students\u2019 happiness levels are a concern that needs to be tackled. He argues that we can take advantage of institutional tools to strengthen the social foundations of happiness \u2014 a strong support network, the autonomy to make choices, and generosity \u2014 to improve happiness levels among our students here.<\/p>\n

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  From his teaching experience at the National University of Singapore, Senior Lecturer Georgios Georgiou (NUS Economics) explains that it is not uncommon for students to send him emails in the wee hours of the morning. He wonders whether these habits are associated with the students\u2019 many responsibilities and investigates their happiness levels. In The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":29279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4539,4529,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communications-and-new-media","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29280,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278\/revisions\/29280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}