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Evidence based pursuit of happiness: What should we know, do we know and can we get to know? 0 0 0 91 1 4 22 369
Financial Distress and Happiness of Employees in Times of Economic Crisis 0 0 0 66 2 3 13 113
How universal is happiness? 0 0 0 228 0 2 13 529
Inequality in happiness: inequality in countries compared across countries 0 0 0 57 0 1 20 203
Life satisfaction in Nations 0 0 0 8 0 0 5 57
Measures of Gross National Happiness 0 0 1 268 0 0 17 887
Social Development and Happiness in Nations 0 0 1 76 0 0 8 307
Social equality and state welfare effort: More income-equality, no more equality in quality of life 0 0 0 32 2 2 8 153
Subjective Measures of Well-being 0 2 2 156 1 6 20 377
Sustainable consumption and happiness 0 1 2 129 0 1 24 397
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 0 0 4 269 1 2 31 769
The Establishment of the GENEQOL Consortium to Investigate the Genetic Disposition of Patient-Reported Quality-of-Life Outcomes 0 0 0 21 0 0 10 170
Unhappy development: dissatisfaction with life on the eve of the Arab spring 0 0 0 87 0 1 10 220
Using Subjective Well-Being as a Headline Indicator in Dashboards to Track Human Progress 0 0 26 26 1 2 11 11
Using Subjective Well-being as a Headline Indicator in Dashboards to Track Human Progress 0 0 14 14 1 1 11 11
Virtual Worlds as Petri Dishes for the Social and Behavioral Sciences 0 0 0 15 0 0 4 261
Why are Latin Europeans less happy? The impact of hierarchy 0 0 0 101 0 0 9 189
Why social policy needs subjective indicators 0 0 0 49 0 1 13 291
World Database of Happiness Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 0 0 0 84 0 1 18 333
World Database of happiness: Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 0 0 1 13 1 1 17 105
Total Working Papers 0 3 51 1,790 10 28 284 5,752


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A comment on Kozma's review of Conditions of Happiness 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 20
Ancient Chinese philosophical advice: can it help us find happiness today? 0 0 0 47 0 0 7 233
Apparent Quality-of-Life in Nations: How Long and Happy People Live 0 0 0 17 0 0 4 88
Are the Russians as Unhappy as they say they are? 0 0 0 25 0 0 8 110
Arts-of-Living 0 0 0 10 0 1 9 92
Book reviews 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 18
Can Happiness Apps Generate Nationally Representative Datasets? - a Case Study Collecting Data on People’s Happiness Using the German Socio-Economic Panel 0 0 0 4 0 0 13 55
Capability and happiness: Conceptual difference and reality links 0 0 0 78 1 3 10 233
Co-development of Happiness Research: Addition to “Fifty Years After the Social Indicator Movement” 0 0 0 8 0 1 10 47
Consumption and happiness: an introduction 0 0 0 17 0 1 11 117
Contentment and Affect in the Estimation of Happiness 0 1 2 36 0 3 16 192
Contextual correlates of happiness in European adults 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 20
Conversion of Verbal Response Scales: Robustness Across Demographic Categories 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 38
Cultural bias in ratings of perceived life quality 0 0 0 2 0 0 6 25
Daily Activities and Happiness in Later Life: The Role of Work Status 0 0 0 11 0 0 7 110
Developments in satisfaction-research 0 0 4 20 0 1 12 101
Did the Easterlin Paradox apply in South Korea between 1980 and 2015? A case study 0 1 3 14 0 5 32 105
Do They Know How Happy They Are? On the Value of Self-Rated Happiness of People With a Mental Disorder 0 0 0 19 0 0 3 109
Does Happiness Foster Social Bonds? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive 0 0 0 0 2 3 13 19
Does intelligence boost happiness? Smartness of all pays more than being smarter than others 0 0 6 20 0 11 86 226
Editorial 0 0 0 6 0 1 12 50
Editorial: Special Issue on Subjective Well-being and Mental Health in the Early Days of COVID-19 0 0 0 2 1 1 15 24
Erratum to: Freedom and Happiness in Nations: A Research Synthesis 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 30
False Promise of Happiness 0 0 0 50 0 0 4 107
Financial distress and happiness of employees in times of economic crisis 0 0 1 15 1 3 17 89
Finding the Key to Happy Aging: A Day Reconstruction Study of Happiness 0 0 0 27 0 0 4 110
Freedom and Happiness in Nations: A Research Synthesis 0 0 0 59 4 5 19 482
Geography of happiness: configurations of affective and cognitive appraisal of life across nations 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 40
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number 0 0 0 59 0 1 12 263
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number: Did the Promise of Enlightenment Come True? 0 0 1 9 0 1 9 72
Happiness Scale Interval Study. Methodological Considerations 0 0 1 22 0 1 8 109
Happiness and Consumption: A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive* †0 0 0 8 1 5 16 79
Happiness and Single Parenthood: A Literature Review Using an Online Findings Archive 1 1 1 1 10 10 13 13
Happiness and productivity: a research synthesis using an online findings archive 1 1 1 1 7 7 17 17
Happiness in shrinking cities in Germany 0 0 0 29 0 0 5 123
Happy Protest Voters: The Case of Rotterdam 1997–2009 0 0 0 2 0 0 5 38
Happy life-expectancy 0 0 0 13 0 5 12 87
Has modernisation gone too far? Modernity and happiness in 141 contemporary nations 0 0 0 8 1 1 11 52
Healthy happiness: effects of happiness on physical health and the consequences for preventive health care 0 0 2 206 1 1 37 1,477
Hedonism and Happiness 0 0 2 110 0 1 13 465
Homogenizing Responses to Different Survey Questions on the Same Topic: Proposal of a Scale Homogenization Method Using a Reference Distribution 0 0 0 1 0 1 10 46
How Does More Attention to Subjective Well-Being Affect Subjective Well-Being? 0 0 0 6 1 3 10 73
How to Take Stock of Research Findings on Happiness in Regions Using the World Database of Happiness 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 4
Index of Inequality-Adjusted Happiness (IAH) Improved: A Research Note 0 0 1 26 0 0 6 129
Inequality Of Happiness in Nations 0 0 0 46 1 1 9 141
Inequality-Adjusted Happiness in Nations Egalitarianism and Utilitarianism Married in a New Index of Societal Performance 0 0 1 30 0 0 8 127
Informed Pursuit of Happiness: What we should know, do know and can get to know 0 0 0 31 1 1 15 166
Introduction 0 0 0 9 0 0 8 48
Is happiness a trait? 0 0 1 12 0 0 6 75
Is happiness relative? 0 0 2 172 0 2 34 789
Lebensqualität in der bundesrepublik 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 22
Life is Getting Better: Societal Evolution and Fit with Human Nature 0 0 0 52 1 1 15 265
Life-satisfaction is more a matter of feeling well than having what you want. Tests of Veenhoven's theory 0 0 1 43 1 2 14 176
Livability of the welfare-state 0 0 0 10 0 1 10 45
Measuring Inequality of Happiness in Nations: In Search for Proper Statistics 0 0 0 53 0 1 10 204
Mood during commute in the Netherlands 0 0 1 10 0 0 11 111
Notions of Art-of-Living 0 0 0 14 0 1 6 67
Obituary Michael Argyle 1925–2002 0 0 0 6 1 1 5 89
Pioneer in Subjective Quality of Life Research: Willem Saris 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 12
Pooling Time Series Based on Slightly Different Questions About the Same Topic Forty Years of Survey Research on Happiness and Life Satisfaction in The Netherlands 0 0 0 4 0 0 5 28
Preface 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 34
Publisher Correction: Happiness and Single Parenthood: A Literature Review Using an Online Findings Archive 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quality-of-Life in Individualistic Society 0 0 1 18 0 1 11 115
Religiousness and happiness in three nations: a research note 0 0 0 101 0 0 15 402
Return of Inequality in Modern Society? Test by Dispersion of Life-Satisfaction Across Time and Nations 0 0 0 41 1 2 7 131
Review of Barry Schwartz “The Paradox of Choice. Why more is less” Harper & Collins, New York, USA 2004, ISBN 0-06-000568-8, 265 pages 0 0 1 62 0 0 10 335
Reviews 0 0 0 2 1 1 6 34
Reviews 0 0 0 2 1 1 6 24
Rising Happiness in Nations 1946–2004: A Reply to Easterlin 0 0 0 23 0 0 11 140
Stability of Boundaries Between Response Options of Response Scales: Does ‘Very Happy’ Remain Equally Happy over the Years? 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 27
Stability of Life-satisfaction over Time 0 1 1 41 0 2 9 159
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 0 0 3 44 0 0 20 199
The Four Qualities of Life 0 0 1 226 0 0 33 1,163
The cross-national pattern of happiness: Test of predictions implied in three theories of happiness 0 0 0 32 0 2 15 168
The growing impact of marriage 0 0 0 2 0 0 6 33
The happiness of housewives: a review of research 0 1 1 1 0 3 4 4
The utility of happiness 0 0 0 27 0 2 8 132
The ‘10 Excess’ Phenomenon in Responses to Survey Questions on Happiness 0 0 0 4 1 2 12 38
Top-down versus bottom-up theories of subjective well-being 0 0 1 52 0 3 27 297
Two State-Trait Discussions on Happiness. A Reply to Stones et al 0 0 0 2 1 3 9 52
Unhappy Development: Dissatisfaction With Life on the Eve of the Arab Spring 0 0 2 14 0 0 30 158
Ways to Greater Happiness: A Delphi Study 0 0 0 8 1 2 6 63
Wealth and Happiness Revisited – Growing National Income Does Go with Greater Happiness 0 0 0 71 0 1 17 304
Well-Being in Nations and Well-Being of Nations 0 0 0 29 1 1 8 96
What is in the name? Content analysis of questionnaires on perceived quality of one’s work life 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 22
Why Social Policy Needs Subjective Indicators 0 0 1 26 1 2 15 128
Why are Locals Happier than Internal Migrants? The Role of Daily Life 0 1 2 35 0 3 14 162
Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive 0 0 0 13 0 2 9 68
World Database of Happiness 0 0 0 17 1 2 11 106
Total Journal Articles 2 7 45 2,388 46 128 1,045 12,896


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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How Do We Assess How Happy We Are? Tenets, Implications and Tenability of Three Theories 1 1 10 287 3 4 42 1,231
Quality of life and happiness: concepts and measures 0 0 6 85 2 5 33 321
Quality-of-Life in the Modern Society Measured with Happy Life Years 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 15
World Database of Happiness: a ‘findings archive’ 0 0 0 13 0 0 10 47
Total Chapters 1 1 16 385 5 9 93 1,614


Statistics updated 2026-09-10