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Evidence based pursuit of happiness: What should we know, do we know and can we get to know? 0 0 1 91 6 13 18 361
Financial Distress and Happiness of Employees in Times of Economic Crisis 0 0 0 66 4 5 7 106
How universal is happiness? 0 0 4 228 4 5 11 521
Inequality in happiness: inequality in countries compared across countries 0 0 1 57 5 9 13 193
Life satisfaction in Nations 0 0 0 8 2 5 7 57
Measures of Gross National Happiness 0 1 1 268 3 8 13 880
Social Development and Happiness in Nations 0 1 2 76 3 5 12 304
Social equality and state welfare effort: More income-equality, no more equality in quality of life 0 0 0 32 0 1 2 146
Subjective Measures of Well-being 0 0 0 154 5 8 14 367
Sustainable consumption and happiness 0 1 1 128 4 11 19 386
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 1 4 5 269 8 14 20 754
The Establishment of the GENEQOL Consortium to Investigate the Genetic Disposition of Patient-Reported Quality-of-Life Outcomes 0 0 0 21 6 7 9 168
Unhappy development: dissatisfaction with life on the eve of the Arab spring 0 0 0 87 5 6 7 216
Virtual Worlds as Petri Dishes for the Social and Behavioral Sciences 0 0 0 15 1 3 3 260
Why are Latin Europeans less happy? The impact of hierarchy 0 0 0 101 1 5 6 185
Why social policy needs subjective indicators 0 0 0 49 3 8 9 287
World Database of Happiness Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 0 0 0 84 3 8 15 327
World Database of happiness: Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 0 1 1 13 5 11 12 99
Total Working Papers 1 8 16 1,747 68 132 197 5,617


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A comment on Kozma's review of Conditions of Happiness 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 17
Ancient Chinese philosophical advice: can it help us find happiness today? 0 0 0 47 2 3 7 231
Apparent Quality-of-Life in Nations: How Long and Happy People Live 0 0 0 17 0 1 2 86
Are the Russians as Unhappy as they say they are? 0 0 0 25 2 4 6 107
Arts-of-Living 0 0 0 10 2 2 6 89
Book reviews 0 0 0 0 4 6 6 16
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 2 3 5 45
Capability and happiness: Conceptual difference and reality links 0 0 0 78 5 5 6 229
Co-development of Happiness Research: Addition to “Fifty Years After the Social Indicator Movement” 0 0 1 8 3 4 6 41
Consumption and happiness: an introduction 0 0 1 17 4 5 9 111
Contentment and Affect in the Estimation of Happiness 0 1 2 35 3 6 13 184
Contextual correlates of happiness in European adults 0 0 0 1 1 3 3 18
Conversion of Verbal Response Scales: Robustness Across Demographic Categories 0 0 0 0 4 5 7 33
Cultural bias in ratings of perceived life quality 0 0 0 2 2 3 3 22
Daily Activities and Happiness in Later Life: The Role of Work Status 0 0 0 11 2 2 3 105
Developments in satisfaction-research 0 2 3 19 1 8 10 98
Did the Easterlin Paradox apply in South Korea between 1980 and 2015? A case study 1 1 3 13 7 13 22 88
Do They Know How Happy They Are? On the Value of Self-Rated Happiness of People With a Mental Disorder 0 0 0 19 2 2 2 108
Does Happiness Foster Social Bonds? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive 0 0 0 0 3 5 14 14
Does intelligence boost happiness? Smartness of all pays more than being smarter than others 0 2 2 16 8 19 26 162
Editorial 0 0 0 6 2 7 7 45
Editorial: Special Issue on Subjective Well-being and Mental Health in the Early Days of COVID-19 0 0 1 2 5 6 9 17
Erratum to: Freedom and Happiness in Nations: A Research Synthesis 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 24
False Promise of Happiness 0 0 0 50 0 1 2 104
Financial distress and happiness of employees in times of economic crisis 0 0 1 14 6 8 10 80
Finding the Key to Happy Aging: A Day Reconstruction Study of Happiness 0 0 0 27 2 4 5 110
Freedom and Happiness in Nations: A Research Synthesis 0 0 1 59 2 7 14 471
Geography of happiness: configurations of affective and cognitive appraisal of life across nations 0 0 0 5 1 1 2 40
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number 0 0 0 59 5 6 9 257
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number: Did the Promise of Enlightenment Come True? 0 0 0 8 2 3 6 68
Happiness Scale Interval Study. Methodological Considerations 1 1 1 22 4 4 6 106
Happiness and Consumption: A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive* †0 0 1 8 5 8 19 71
Happiness in shrinking cities in Germany 0 0 0 29 2 3 5 122
Happy Protest Voters: The Case of Rotterdam 1997–2009 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 35
Happy life-expectancy 0 0 0 13 3 4 6 79
Has modernisation gone too far? Modernity and happiness in 141 contemporary nations 0 0 0 8 2 5 9 46
Healthy happiness: effects of happiness on physical health and the consequences for preventive health care 0 0 2 205 11 23 33 1,469
Hedonism and Happiness 0 1 2 110 3 6 7 459
Homogenizing Responses to Different Survey Questions on the Same Topic: Proposal of a Scale Homogenization Method Using a Reference Distribution 0 0 0 1 1 6 10 44
How Does More Attention to Subjective Well-Being Affect Subjective Well-Being? 0 0 0 6 1 4 6 68
Index of Inequality-Adjusted Happiness (IAH) Improved: A Research Note 0 0 1 26 2 2 6 126
Inequality Of Happiness in Nations 0 0 0 46 1 2 2 134
Inequality-Adjusted Happiness in Nations Egalitarianism and Utilitarianism Married in a New Index of Societal Performance 0 0 0 29 4 5 5 124
Informed Pursuit of Happiness: What we should know, do know and can get to know 0 0 0 31 5 6 12 160
Introduction 0 0 0 9 3 4 4 44
Is happiness a trait? 0 0 0 11 2 3 5 73
Is happiness relative? 0 1 5 171 10 20 35 778
Lebensqualität in der bundesrepublik 0 0 0 2 2 2 3 21
Life is Getting Better: Societal Evolution and Fit with Human Nature 0 0 0 52 2 5 11 258
Life-satisfaction is more a matter of feeling well than having what you want. Tests of Veenhoven's theory 0 1 4 43 3 8 15 171
Livability of the welfare-state 0 0 1 10 5 5 11 42
Measuring Inequality of Happiness in Nations: In Search for Proper Statistics 0 0 0 53 1 3 6 199
Mood during commute in the Netherlands 0 0 1 10 5 6 8 107
Notions of Art-of-Living 0 0 0 14 3 4 4 65
Obituary Michael Argyle 1925–2002 0 0 0 6 2 3 3 87
Pioneer in Subjective Quality of Life Research: Willem Saris 0 0 1 1 2 2 5 10
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 3 25
Preface 0 0 0 0 3 4 4 29
Quality-of-Life in Individualistic Society 0 0 1 17 2 6 9 112
Religiousness and happiness in three nations: a research note 0 0 0 101 2 3 8 394
Return of Inequality in Modern Society? Test by Dispersion of Life-Satisfaction Across Time and Nations 0 0 0 41 3 3 3 127
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 1 1 1 62 5 5 8 331
Reviews 0 0 0 2 1 3 3 31
Reviews 0 0 0 2 1 2 3 21
Rising Happiness in Nations 1946–2004: A Reply to Easterlin 0 0 0 23 2 5 5 134
Stability of Boundaries Between Response Options of Response Scales: Does ‘Very Happy’ Remain Equally Happy over the Years? 0 0 0 3 2 3 4 26
Stability of Life-satisfaction over Time 0 0 0 40 1 3 8 155
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 1 2 4 44 5 10 17 191
The Four Qualities of Life 0 1 2 226 7 18 30 1,152
The cross-national pattern of happiness: Test of predictions implied in three theories of happiness 0 0 0 32 5 10 11 163
The growing impact of marriage 0 0 0 2 3 3 3 30
The utility of happiness 0 0 0 27 4 6 9 130
The ‘10 Excess’ Phenomenon in Responses to Survey Questions on Happiness 0 0 0 4 2 4 5 30
Top-down versus bottom-up theories of subjective well-being 0 0 1 51 4 6 10 276
Two State-Trait Discussions on Happiness. A Reply to Stones et al 0 0 0 2 1 3 9 48
Unhappy Development: Dissatisfaction With Life on the Eve of the Arab Spring 1 2 2 14 10 17 23 147
Ways to Greater Happiness: A Delphi Study 0 0 0 8 1 1 1 58
Wealth and Happiness Revisited – Growing National Income Does Go with Greater Happiness 0 0 0 71 4 10 11 298
Well-Being in Nations and Well-Being of Nations 0 0 0 29 1 3 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 5 18
Why Social Policy Needs Subjective Indicators 0 1 1 26 3 8 13 122
Why are Locals Happier than Internal Migrants? The Role of Daily Life 0 1 1 34 1 3 8 153
Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive 0 0 1 13 1 5 8 64
World Database of Happiness 0 0 0 17 2 4 10 99
Total Journal Articles 5 18 48 2,368 243 439 699 12,375


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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How Do We Assess How Happy We Are? Tenets, Implications and Tenability of Three Theories 2 3 15 285 13 21 57 1,218
Quality of life and happiness: concepts and measures 1 2 7 84 7 14 27 307
Quality-of-Life in the Modern Society Measured with Happy Life Years 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 10
World Database of Happiness: a ‘findings archive’ 0 0 0 13 2 7 9 44
Total Chapters 3 5 22 382 24 45 97 1,579


Statistics updated 2026-02-12