Prof. Bob Cummins

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  Deakin University Professor Bob Cummins, the author of the index, says wellbeing is related to a sense of community.
  
  "Anybody who's lived in a small country town knows ... that everybody says hello to everybody else," he told AAP.
  
  "You become very quickly connected to those communities."
  
  But he says areas with a high number of new Australians have lower levels of social connection.
  
  "This acts then to reduce the wellbeing of people in those areas," he says.
  
  "What this signals to government is that more resources are clearly required, not in terms of financial support ... but in terms of social interventions, about bringing people of different cultures together."
  
  He says policy makers need to direct more resources to these areas.

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  Professor Robert A. Cummins has held a Personal Chair in Psychology at Deakin University since 1997. He has published widely on the topic of Quality of Life and is regarded as an international authority in this area.

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  Professor Bob Cummins from Deakin University, the author of the Index, says that this outcome is driven by feeling connected to the community.
  
  "Community connection has a large impact on how people feel about their lives. This is very difficult to achieve in larger towns and cities but appears to be highly evident in smaller towns and country regions," Professor Cummins said.
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  "This appears to be caused by a lack of connection to the community, however it is important to note that this is a preliminary finding and there is definitely room for further research in this area," says Professor Cummins.

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  Professor Robert CumminsProfessor of PsychologyThe Australian Centre on Quality of Life, Deakin University, Australia

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  The report, 'The Wellbeing of Australians - differences between statistical sub divisions, towns and cities', authored by Professor Bob Cummins from Deakin University, shows that people who live in regions with a relatively small population have an increased sense of belonging and safety, which contributes greatly to their wellbeing.
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  Professor Cummins says that this outcome is driven by feeling connected to your community. He says this is difficult to achieve in larger towns and cities, but appears to be highly evident in smaller towns and country regions.

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  According to the renowned psychologist Bob Cummins, what subjective indicators measure is happiness as a mood, rather than happiness as an emotion.A mood is something stable, whereas an emotion tends to be fleeting.Cummins explains the narrow variation of happiness in surveys, all over the world, by theorizing that happiness, as a mood, is controlled by a management system that he calls subjective well-being homeostasis.
  
  Just as their physiological systems normally keep body temperature within a narrow range, people's psychological systems normally work to keep happiness from extreme change.A homeostatic system is resilient, working to help people bounce back from unusually bad (or even unusually good) experiences.
  
  Unhappy people seek help from external resources, the major ones being money and relationships.Cummins says that emotionally intimate relationships are the most powerful defense.Unhappy people also use internal resources such as the ability to rationalize or "explain away" a bad situation, to their advantage. (Would feeling a close relationship to God be an internal or an external resource?Either way, this homeostatic element would be very Filipino.)
  
  Bob Cummins, professor of psychology at Deakin University and developer of the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index, is the incoming president of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Happiness Studies.

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  Robert A. Cummins, Professor of Psychology, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Happiness Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

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  Robert Cummins

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  Deakin University Professor Bob Cummins, the author of the index, said wellbeing was related to a sense of community.
  
  "Anybody who's lived in a small country town knows . . . that everybody says hello to everybody else," Prof Cummins said.

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  The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index report, compiled by Bob Cummins, professor of psychology at Deakin University, shows the happiest communities are in rural Australia with populations of fewer than 40,000 people.
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  This finding was likely to reflect the anxiety about 'strangers' felt by the Australian-born in the area who were more likely to be interviewed for the survey, Professor Cummins said, rather than the feelings of the immigrants.
  
  Apart from inner-city Sydney, suburbs further west, including Auburn, Holroyd, Rosehill, Westmead and Pendle Hill also fell into the low wellbeing group.

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