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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 2 9 20 364
Financial Distress and Happiness of Employees in Times of Economic Crisis 0 0 0 66 0 5 8 107
How universal is happiness? 0 0 4 228 1 9 16 526
Inequality in happiness: inequality in countries compared across countries 0 0 1 57 4 11 19 199
Life satisfaction in Nations 0 0 0 8 0 2 6 57
Measures of Gross National Happiness 0 0 1 268 3 8 18 885
Social Development and Happiness in Nations 0 0 2 76 0 5 10 306
Social equality and state welfare effort: More income-equality, no more equality in quality of life 0 0 0 32 1 3 5 149
Subjective Measures of Well-being 0 0 0 154 0 5 13 367
Sustainable consumption and happiness 0 0 1 128 2 10 23 392
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 0 1 5 269 4 19 30 765
The Establishment of the GENEQOL Consortium to Investigate the Genetic Disposition of Patient-Reported Quality-of-Life Outcomes 0 0 0 21 0 7 9 169
Unhappy development: dissatisfaction with life on the eve of the Arab spring 0 0 0 87 0 6 8 217
Using Subjective Well-Being as a Headline Indicator in Dashboards to Track Human Progress 13 13 13 13 7 7 7 7
Using Subjective Well-being as a Headline Indicator in Dashboards to Track Human Progress 14 14 14 14 6 8 8 8
Virtual Worlds as Petri Dishes for the Social and Behavioral Sciences 0 0 0 15 0 1 3 260
Why are Latin Europeans less happy? The impact of hierarchy 0 0 0 101 0 2 6 186
Why social policy needs subjective indicators 0 0 0 49 0 5 11 289
World Database of Happiness Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 0 0 0 84 1 5 16 329
World Database of happiness: Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 0 0 1 13 0 9 16 103
Total Working Papers 27 28 42 1,774 31 136 252 5,685


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A comment on Kozma's review of Conditions of Happiness 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 18
Ancient Chinese philosophical advice: can it help us find happiness today? 0 0 0 47 0 2 6 231
Apparent Quality-of-Life in Nations: How Long and Happy People Live 0 0 0 17 1 1 3 87
Are the Russians as Unhappy as they say they are? 0 0 0 25 0 3 7 108
Arts-of-Living 0 0 0 10 0 3 7 90
Book reviews 0 0 0 0 0 5 7 17
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 4 6 47
Capability and happiness: Conceptual difference and reality links 0 0 0 78 0 5 6 229
Co-development of Happiness Research: Addition to “Fifty Years After the Social Indicator Movement” 0 0 0 8 0 5 6 43
Consumption and happiness: an introduction 0 0 1 17 0 4 9 111
Contentment and Affect in the Estimation of Happiness 0 0 2 35 0 4 12 185
Contextual correlates of happiness in European adults 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 19
Conversion of Verbal Response Scales: Robustness Across Demographic Categories 0 0 0 0 2 6 8 35
Cultural bias in ratings of perceived life quality 0 0 0 2 0 4 5 24
Daily Activities and Happiness in Later Life: The Role of Work Status 0 0 0 11 1 3 4 106
Developments in satisfaction-research 0 0 3 19 0 1 10 98
Did the Easterlin Paradox apply in South Korea between 1980 and 2015? A case study 0 1 3 13 6 13 24 94
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 2 2 108
Does Happiness Foster Social Bonds? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive 0 0 0 0 1 4 14 15
Does intelligence boost happiness? Smartness of all pays more than being smarter than others 2 2 4 18 15 36 53 190
Editorial 0 0 0 6 0 4 9 47
Editorial: Special Issue on Subjective Well-being and Mental Health in the Early Days of COVID-19 0 0 0 2 0 9 12 21
Erratum to: Freedom and Happiness in Nations: A Research Synthesis 0 0 0 1 1 5 7 28
False Promise of Happiness 0 0 0 50 1 1 2 105
Financial distress and happiness of employees in times of economic crisis 0 1 2 15 0 7 11 81
Finding the Key to Happy Aging: A Day Reconstruction Study of Happiness 0 0 0 27 0 2 5 110
Freedom and Happiness in Nations: A Research Synthesis 0 0 0 59 0 6 16 475
Geography of happiness: configurations of affective and cognitive appraisal of life across nations 0 0 0 5 0 1 2 40
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number 0 0 0 59 0 5 8 257
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number: Did the Promise of Enlightenment Come True? 0 0 0 8 0 2 5 68
Happiness Scale Interval Study. Methodological Considerations 0 1 1 22 0 4 5 106
Happiness and Consumption: A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive* †0 0 1 8 1 7 18 73
Happiness and productivity: a research synthesis using an online findings archive 0 0 0 0 4 6 6 6
Happiness in shrinking cities in Germany 0 0 0 29 1 3 5 123
Happy Protest Voters: The Case of Rotterdam 1997–2009 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 36
Happy life-expectancy 0 0 0 13 2 5 8 81
Has modernisation gone too far? Modernity and happiness in 141 contemporary nations 0 0 0 8 0 3 9 47
Healthy happiness: effects of happiness on physical health and the consequences for preventive health care 0 0 1 205 2 14 35 1,472
Hedonism and Happiness 0 0 2 110 0 4 8 460
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 8 44
How Does More Attention to Subjective Well-Being Affect Subjective Well-Being? 0 0 0 6 2 3 7 70
How to Take Stock of Research Findings on Happiness in Regions Using the World Database of Happiness 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Index of Inequality-Adjusted Happiness (IAH) Improved: A Research Note 0 0 1 26 2 4 6 128
Inequality Of Happiness in Nations 0 0 0 46 2 4 5 137
Inequality-Adjusted Happiness in Nations Egalitarianism and Utilitarianism Married in a New Index of Societal Performance 0 0 0 29 0 5 6 125
Informed Pursuit of Happiness: What we should know, do know and can get to know 0 0 0 31 0 7 13 162
Introduction 0 0 0 9 1 6 7 47
Is happiness a trait? 0 1 1 12 0 3 6 74
Is happiness relative? 1 1 3 172 2 14 34 782
Lebensqualität in der bundesrepublik 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 21
Life is Getting Better: Societal Evolution and Fit with Human Nature 0 0 0 52 1 4 11 260
Life-satisfaction is more a matter of feeling well than having what you want. Tests of Veenhoven's theory 0 0 3 43 2 5 16 173
Livability of the welfare-state 0 0 0 10 0 5 10 42
Measuring Inequality of Happiness in Nations: In Search for Proper Statistics 0 0 0 53 0 1 6 199
Mood during commute in the Netherlands 0 0 1 10 0 7 9 109
Notions of Art-of-Living 0 0 0 14 1 4 5 66
Obituary Michael Argyle 1925–2002 0 0 0 6 0 2 3 87
Pioneer in Subjective Quality of Life Research: Willem Saris 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 11
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 2 3 5 28
Preface 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 30
Quality-of-Life in Individualistic Society 0 0 0 17 0 3 9 113
Religiousness and happiness in three nations: a research note 0 0 0 101 0 5 11 397
Return of Inequality in Modern Society? Test by Dispersion of Life-Satisfaction Across Time and Nations 0 0 0 41 2 5 5 129
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 1 1 62 0 6 9 332
Reviews 0 0 0 2 1 2 4 32
Reviews 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 22
Rising Happiness in Nations 1946–2004: A Reply to Easterlin 0 0 0 23 0 3 6 135
Stability of Boundaries Between Response Options of Response Scales: Does ‘Very Happy’ Remain Equally Happy over the Years? 0 0 0 3 0 3 4 27
Stability of Life-satisfaction over Time 0 0 0 40 0 2 8 156
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 0 1 4 44 2 8 19 194
The Four Qualities of Life 0 0 1 226 2 10 28 1,155
The cross-national pattern of happiness: Test of predictions implied in three theories of happiness 0 0 0 32 0 6 12 164
The growing impact of marriage 0 0 0 2 1 4 4 31
The utility of happiness 0 0 0 27 0 4 8 130
The ‘10 Excess’ Phenomenon in Responses to Survey Questions on Happiness 0 0 0 4 2 6 8 34
Top-down versus bottom-up theories of subjective well-being 0 0 0 51 7 12 16 284
Two State-Trait Discussions on Happiness. A Reply to Stones et al 0 0 0 2 0 1 7 48
Unhappy Development: Dissatisfaction With Life on the Eve of the Arab Spring 0 1 2 14 4 16 29 153
Ways to Greater Happiness: A Delphi Study 0 0 0 8 1 2 2 59
Wealth and Happiness Revisited – Growing National Income Does Go with Greater Happiness 0 0 0 71 1 6 13 300
Well-Being in Nations and Well-Being of Nations 0 0 0 29 0 1 6 93
What is in the name? Content analysis of questionnaires on perceived quality of one’s work life 0 0 0 1 0 2 6 20
Why Social Policy Needs Subjective Indicators 0 0 1 26 1 5 13 124
Why are Locals Happier than Internal Migrants? The Role of Daily Life 0 0 1 34 2 4 10 156
Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive 0 0 1 13 0 2 9 65
World Database of Happiness 0 0 0 17 1 3 11 100
Total Journal Articles 3 10 40 2,373 81 408 798 12,540


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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How Do We Assess How Happy We Are? Tenets, Implications and Tenability of Three Theories 0 3 14 286 0 17 51 1,222
Quality of life and happiness: concepts and measures 0 1 6 84 1 10 26 310
Quality-of-Life in the Modern Society Measured with Happy Life Years 0 0 0 0 2 6 7 14
World Database of Happiness: a ‘findings archive’ 0 0 0 13 0 3 10 45
Total Chapters 0 4 20 383 3 36 94 1,591


Statistics updated 2026-04-09