Access Statistics for Ruut Veenhoven

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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
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Evidence based pursuit of happiness: What should we know, do we know and can we get to know? 0 1 3 91 0 1 9 344
Financial Distress and Happiness of Employees in Times of Economic Crisis 0 0 0 66 0 0 2 99
How universal is happiness? 0 0 0 224 1 1 6 511
Inequality in happiness: inequality in countries compared across countries 0 0 2 56 0 0 6 180
Life satisfaction in Nations 0 0 0 8 1 2 3 52
Measures of Gross National Happiness 0 0 1 267 1 1 8 868
Social Development and Happiness in Nations 0 0 0 74 1 5 13 297
Social equality and state welfare effort: More income-equality, no more equality in quality of life 0 0 1 32 1 1 4 145
Subjective Measures of Well-being 0 0 4 154 0 1 10 354
Sustainable consumption and happiness 0 0 2 127 0 2 7 369
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 0 0 1 264 1 2 15 736
The Establishment of the GENEQOL Consortium to Investigate the Genetic Disposition of Patient-Reported Quality-of-Life Outcomes 0 0 0 21 0 1 1 160
Unhappy development: dissatisfaction with life on the eve of the Arab spring 0 0 0 87 0 0 2 209
Virtual Worlds as Petri Dishes for the Social and Behavioral Sciences 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 257
Why are Latin Europeans less happy? The impact of hierarchy 0 0 0 101 0 1 2 180
Why social policy needs subjective indicators 0 0 0 49 0 0 0 278
World Database of Happiness Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 0 0 0 84 0 1 3 313
World Database of happiness: Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 0 0 0 12 0 0 3 87
Total Working Papers 0 1 14 1,732 6 19 94 5,439


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A comment on Kozma's review of Conditions of Happiness 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 17
Ancient Chinese philosophical advice: can it help us find happiness today? 0 0 0 47 0 1 2 225
Apparent Quality-of-Life in Nations: How Long and Happy People Live 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 84
Are the Russians as Unhappy as they say they are? 0 0 0 25 0 0 3 101
Arts-of-Living 0 0 0 10 0 0 3 83
Book reviews 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
Can Happiness Apps Generate Nationally Representative Datasets? - a Case Study Collecting Data on People’s Happiness Using the German Socio-Economic Panel 0 0 1 4 0 1 5 41
Capability and happiness: Conceptual difference and reality links 0 0 3 78 0 0 4 223
Co-development of Happiness Research: Addition to “Fifty Years After the Social Indicator Movement” 0 1 3 8 0 2 4 37
Consumption and happiness: an introduction 1 1 1 17 3 3 5 105
Contentment and Affect in the Estimation of Happiness 0 0 3 33 0 2 16 173
Contextual correlates of happiness in European adults 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15
Conversion of Verbal Response Scales: Robustness Across Demographic Categories 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 27
Cultural bias in ratings of perceived life quality 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 19
Daily Activities and Happiness in Later Life: The Role of Work Status 0 0 0 11 0 0 1 102
Developments in satisfaction-research 0 0 1 16 0 0 3 88
Did the Easterlin Paradox apply in South Korea between 1980 and 2015? A case study 0 0 1 10 0 4 11 70
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 2 106
Does Happiness Foster Social Bonds? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Does intelligence boost happiness? Smartness of all pays more than being smarter than others 0 0 1 14 0 1 11 137
Editorial 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 38
Editorial: Special Issue on Subjective Well-being and Mental Health in the Early Days of COVID-19 0 1 1 2 0 1 3 9
Erratum to: Freedom and Happiness in Nations: A Research Synthesis 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 21
False Promise of Happiness 0 0 0 50 0 1 1 103
Financial distress and happiness of employees in times of economic crisis 0 0 0 13 0 0 4 70
Finding the Key to Happy Aging: A Day Reconstruction Study of Happiness 0 0 0 27 0 0 0 105
Freedom and Happiness in Nations: A Research Synthesis 0 1 2 59 0 2 22 459
Geography of happiness: configurations of affective and cognitive appraisal of life across nations 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 38
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number 0 0 0 59 0 1 3 249
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number: Did the Promise of Enlightenment Come True? 0 0 0 8 0 1 2 63
Happiness Scale Interval Study. Methodological Considerations 0 0 0 21 0 1 5 101
Happiness and Consumption: A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive* †0 0 0 7 2 5 11 57
Happiness in shrinking cities in Germany 0 0 0 29 0 1 3 118
Happy Protest Voters: The Case of Rotterdam 1997–2009 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 33
Happy life-expectancy 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 73
Has modernisation gone too far? Modernity and happiness in 141 contemporary nations 0 0 1 8 0 1 5 38
Healthy happiness: effects of happiness on physical health and the consequences for preventive health care 0 1 2 204 1 2 9 1,438
Hedonism and Happiness 0 0 0 108 0 0 5 452
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 2 3 36
How Does More Attention to Subjective Well-Being Affect Subjective Well-Being? 0 0 0 6 0 1 5 63
Index of Inequality-Adjusted Happiness (IAH) Improved: A Research Note 0 0 1 25 0 2 5 122
Inequality Of Happiness in Nations 0 0 0 46 0 0 1 132
Inequality-Adjusted Happiness in Nations Egalitarianism and Utilitarianism Married in a New Index of Societal Performance 0 0 0 29 0 0 2 119
Informed Pursuit of Happiness: What we should know, do know and can get to know 0 0 0 31 0 1 3 149
Introduction 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 40
Is happiness a trait? 0 0 0 11 0 0 1 68
Is happiness relative? 1 4 8 170 1 6 25 749
Lebensqualität in der bundesrepublik 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 19
Life is Getting Better: Societal Evolution and Fit with Human Nature 0 0 4 52 0 2 13 249
Life-satisfaction is more a matter of feeling well than having what you want. Tests of Veenhoven's theory 0 1 4 40 0 1 7 157
Livability of the welfare-state 0 1 2 10 0 1 3 32
Measuring Inequality of Happiness in Nations: In Search for Proper Statistics 0 0 0 53 0 0 2 193
Mood during commute in the Netherlands 0 0 0 9 0 1 6 100
Notions of Art-of-Living 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 61
Obituary Michael Argyle 1925–2002 0 0 0 6 0 0 3 84
Pioneer in Subjective Quality of Life Research: Willem Saris 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 7
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 1 1 23
Preface 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25
Quality-of-Life in Individualistic Society 0 1 1 17 0 1 2 104
Religiousness and happiness in three nations: a research note 0 0 1 101 0 0 4 386
Return of Inequality in Modern Society? Test by Dispersion of Life-Satisfaction Across Time and Nations 0 0 0 41 0 0 2 124
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 0 61 0 0 1 323
Reviews 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 18
Reviews 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 28
Rising Happiness in Nations 1946–2004: A Reply to Easterlin 0 0 0 23 0 0 2 129
Stability of Boundaries Between Response Options of Response Scales: Does ‘Very Happy’ Remain Equally Happy over the Years? 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 23
Stability of Life-satisfaction over Time 0 0 0 40 0 1 2 148
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 0 0 0 40 1 2 7 176
The Four Qualities of Life 0 1 4 225 1 6 31 1,128
The cross-national pattern of happiness: Test of predictions implied in three theories of happiness 0 0 1 32 0 0 5 152
The growing impact of marriage 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 27
The utility of happiness 0 0 1 27 0 1 7 122
The ‘10 Excess’ Phenomenon in Responses to Survey Questions on Happiness 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 26
Top-down versus bottom-up theories of subjective well-being 0 1 3 51 0 2 14 268
Two State-Trait Discussions on Happiness. A Reply to Stones et al 0 0 0 2 1 3 4 42
Unhappy Development: Dissatisfaction With Life on the Eve of the Arab Spring 0 0 1 12 1 1 10 125
Ways to Greater Happiness: A Delphi Study 0 0 0 8 0 0 2 57
Wealth and Happiness Revisited – Growing National Income Does Go with Greater Happiness 0 0 4 71 0 0 8 287
Well-Being in Nations and Well-Being of Nations 0 0 0 29 0 0 1 87
What is in the name? Content analysis of questionnaires on perceived quality of one’s work life 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 14
Why Social Policy Needs Subjective Indicators 0 0 0 25 0 2 3 111
Why are Locals Happier than Internal Migrants? The Role of Daily Life 0 0 1 33 0 1 5 146
Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive 1 1 2 13 1 1 7 57
World Database of Happiness 0 0 1 17 0 0 3 89
Total Journal Articles 3 16 60 2,336 12 78 367 11,754


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 3 8 273 4 14 51 1,175
Quality of life and happiness: concepts and measures 0 1 3 78 2 6 30 286
Quality-of-Life in the Modern Society Measured with Happy Life Years 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 7
World Database of Happiness: a ‘findings archive’ 0 0 0 13 0 0 3 35
Total Chapters 1 4 11 364 6 21 85 1,503


Statistics updated 2025-05-12