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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 0 1 91 2 3 8 350
Financial Distress and Happiness of Employees in Times of Economic Crisis 0 0 0 66 0 1 4 101
How universal is happiness? 0 0 4 228 0 0 6 516
Inequality in happiness: inequality in countries compared across countries 0 0 2 57 0 1 7 184
Life satisfaction in Nations 0 0 0 8 1 1 3 53
Measures of Gross National Happiness 1 1 1 268 4 6 12 876
Social Development and Happiness in Nations 1 1 2 76 1 1 9 300
Social equality and state welfare effort: More income-equality, no more equality in quality of life 0 0 1 32 0 0 2 145
Subjective Measures of Well-being 0 0 0 154 1 3 7 360
Sustainable consumption and happiness 0 0 1 127 1 3 10 376
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 2 2 3 267 5 7 12 745
The Establishment of the GENEQOL Consortium to Investigate the Genetic Disposition of Patient-Reported Quality-of-Life Outcomes 0 0 0 21 0 1 2 161
Unhappy development: dissatisfaction with life on the eve of the Arab spring 0 0 0 87 1 1 3 211
Virtual Worlds as Petri Dishes for the Social and Behavioral Sciences 0 0 0 15 1 1 1 258
Why are Latin Europeans less happy? The impact of hierarchy 0 0 0 101 1 1 2 181
Why social policy needs subjective indicators 0 0 0 49 2 3 3 281
World Database of Happiness Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 0 0 0 84 2 6 9 321
World Database of happiness: Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 1 1 1 13 2 2 3 90
Total Working Papers 5 5 16 1,744 24 41 103 5,509


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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 0 2 4 228
Apparent Quality-of-Life in Nations: How Long and Happy People Live 0 0 0 17 1 2 2 86
Are the Russians as Unhappy as they say they are? 0 0 0 25 1 2 3 104
Arts-of-Living 0 0 0 10 0 4 5 87
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 0 3 42
Capability and happiness: Conceptual difference and reality links 0 0 0 78 0 1 1 224
Co-development of Happiness Research: Addition to “Fifty Years After the Social Indicator Movement” 0 0 2 8 0 0 3 37
Consumption and happiness: an introduction 0 0 1 17 0 0 4 106
Contentment and Affect in the Estimation of Happiness 1 1 2 35 1 3 12 179
Contextual correlates of happiness in European adults 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 16
Conversion of Verbal Response Scales: Robustness Across Demographic Categories 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 28
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 1 103
Developments in satisfaction-research 2 3 3 19 4 5 6 94
Did the Easterlin Paradox apply in South Korea between 1980 and 2015? A case study 0 1 2 12 2 4 13 77
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 0 106
Does Happiness Foster Social Bonds? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive 0 0 0 0 1 4 10 10
Does intelligence boost happiness? Smartness of all pays more than being smarter than others 1 1 1 15 5 8 12 148
Editorial 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 38
Editorial: Special Issue on Subjective Well-being and Mental Health in the Early Days of COVID-19 0 0 1 2 0 2 3 11
Erratum to: Freedom and Happiness in Nations: A Research Synthesis 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 23
False Promise of Happiness 0 0 0 50 0 0 1 103
Financial distress and happiness of employees in times of economic crisis 0 0 1 14 0 0 4 72
Finding the Key to Happy Aging: A Day Reconstruction Study of Happiness 0 0 0 27 1 1 2 107
Freedom and Happiness in Nations: A Research Synthesis 0 0 2 59 4 5 13 468
Geography of happiness: configurations of affective and cognitive appraisal of life across nations 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 39
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number 0 0 0 59 0 0 4 251
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number: Did the Promise of Enlightenment Come True? 0 0 0 8 0 2 4 65
Happiness Scale Interval Study. Methodological Considerations 0 0 0 21 0 1 2 102
Happiness and Consumption: A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive* †0 0 1 8 0 0 14 63
Happiness in shrinking cities in Germany 0 0 0 29 0 1 2 119
Happy Protest Voters: The Case of Rotterdam 1997–2009 0 0 0 2 1 2 3 35
Happy life-expectancy 0 0 0 13 1 1 3 76
Has modernisation gone too far? Modernity and happiness in 141 contemporary nations 0 0 0 8 3 3 8 44
Healthy happiness: effects of happiness on physical health and the consequences for preventive health care 0 1 2 205 5 11 17 1,451
Hedonism and Happiness 0 1 1 109 0 1 3 453
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 3 5 39
How Does More Attention to Subjective Well-Being Affect Subjective Well-Being? 0 0 0 6 1 2 5 65
Index of Inequality-Adjusted Happiness (IAH) Improved: A Research Note 0 1 1 26 0 1 5 124
Inequality Of Happiness in Nations 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 132
Inequality-Adjusted Happiness in Nations Egalitarianism and Utilitarianism Married in a New Index of Societal Performance 0 0 0 29 0 0 0 119
Informed Pursuit of Happiness: What we should know, do know and can get to know 0 0 0 31 0 3 6 154
Introduction 0 0 0 9 1 1 1 41
Is happiness a trait? 0 0 0 11 1 2 3 71
Is happiness relative? 0 0 4 170 3 6 21 761
Lebensqualität in der bundesrepublik 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 19
Life is Getting Better: Societal Evolution and Fit with Human Nature 0 0 0 52 2 5 11 255
Life-satisfaction is more a matter of feeling well than having what you want. Tests of Veenhoven's theory 0 0 4 42 4 5 13 167
Livability of the welfare-state 0 0 1 10 0 2 6 37
Measuring Inequality of Happiness in Nations: In Search for Proper Statistics 0 0 0 53 2 4 5 198
Mood during commute in the Netherlands 0 1 1 10 1 2 6 102
Notions of Art-of-Living 0 0 0 14 1 1 1 62
Obituary Michael Argyle 1925–2002 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 84
Pioneer in Subjective Quality of Life Research: Willem Saris 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 8
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 1 2 3 25
Preface 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25
Quality-of-Life in Individualistic Society 0 0 1 17 2 4 5 108
Religiousness and happiness in three nations: a research note 0 0 0 101 0 4 5 391
Return of Inequality in Modern Society? Test by Dispersion of Life-Satisfaction Across Time and Nations 0 0 0 41 0 0 0 124
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 1 3 326
Reviews 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 19
Reviews 0 0 0 2 2 2 3 30
Rising Happiness in Nations 1946–2004: A Reply to Easterlin 0 0 0 23 3 3 5 132
Stability of Boundaries Between Response Options of Response Scales: Does ‘Very Happy’ Remain Equally Happy over the Years? 0 0 0 3 1 1 2 24
Stability of Life-satisfaction over Time 0 0 0 40 1 3 6 153
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 1 2 3 43 4 6 13 185
The Four Qualities of Life 1 1 2 226 9 13 30 1,143
The cross-national pattern of happiness: Test of predictions implied in three theories of happiness 0 0 1 32 3 3 5 156
The growing impact of marriage 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 27
The utility of happiness 0 0 1 27 2 2 6 126
The ‘10 Excess’ Phenomenon in Responses to Survey Questions on Happiness 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 27
Top-down versus bottom-up theories of subjective well-being 0 0 1 51 2 2 6 272
Two State-Trait Discussions on Happiness. A Reply to Stones et al 0 0 0 2 2 4 8 47
Unhappy Development: Dissatisfaction With Life on the Eve of the Arab Spring 1 1 2 13 4 6 14 134
Ways to Greater Happiness: A Delphi Study 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 57
Wealth and Happiness Revisited – Growing National Income Does Go with Greater Happiness 0 0 3 71 3 4 9 291
Well-Being in Nations and Well-Being of Nations 0 0 0 29 1 3 4 91
What is in the name? Content analysis of questionnaires on perceived quality of one’s work life 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 17
Why Social Policy Needs Subjective Indicators 1 1 1 26 1 2 6 115
Why are Locals Happier than Internal Migrants? The Role of Daily Life 0 0 0 33 0 2 5 150
Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive 0 0 1 13 2 2 7 61
World Database of Happiness 0 0 0 17 0 0 6 95
Total Journal Articles 8 15 48 2,358 94 179 419 12,030


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 5 13 282 4 12 49 1,201
Quality of life and happiness: concepts and measures 1 4 8 83 4 9 28 297
Quality-of-Life in the Modern Society Measured with Happy Life Years 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7
World Database of Happiness: a ‘findings archive’ 0 0 0 13 2 2 4 39
Total Chapters 1 9 21 378 10 23 82 1,544


Statistics updated 2025-12-06