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Evidence based pursuit of happiness: What should we know, do we know and can we get to know? 0 0 3 90 0 1 11 343
Financial Distress and Happiness of Employees in Times of Economic Crisis 0 0 0 66 0 2 2 99
How universal is happiness? 0 0 0 224 0 0 6 510
Inequality in happiness: inequality in countries compared across countries 0 1 2 56 0 3 8 180
Life satisfaction in Nations 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 50
Measures of Gross National Happiness 0 0 1 267 0 3 8 867
Social Development and Happiness in Nations 0 0 1 74 2 3 14 294
Social equality and state welfare effort: More income-equality, no more equality in quality of life 0 1 1 32 0 1 3 144
Subjective Measures of Well-being 0 0 4 154 1 1 12 354
Sustainable consumption and happiness 0 1 2 127 2 3 9 369
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 0 0 1 264 0 1 16 734
The Establishment of the GENEQOL Consortium to Investigate the Genetic Disposition of Patient-Reported Quality-of-Life Outcomes 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 159
Unhappy development: dissatisfaction with life on the eve of the Arab spring 0 0 0 87 0 1 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 1 101 0 0 2 179
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 0 2 312
World Database of happiness: Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 0 0 0 12 0 0 3 87
Total Working Papers 0 3 16 1,731 5 19 99 5,425


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A comment on Kozma's review of Conditions of Happiness 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 17
Ancient Chinese philosophical advice: can it help us find happiness today? 0 0 1 47 0 0 5 224
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 1 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 1 1 4 0 1 5 40
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 2 7 0 1 2 35
Consumption and happiness: an introduction 0 0 0 16 0 0 2 102
Contentment and Affect in the Estimation of Happiness 0 0 5 33 0 4 20 171
Contextual correlates of happiness in European adults 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 15
Conversion of Verbal Response Scales: Robustness Across Demographic Categories 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 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 5 88
Did the Easterlin Paradox apply in South Korea between 1980 and 2015? A case study 0 0 1 10 2 4 9 68
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 intelligence boost happiness? Smartness of all pays more than being smarter than others 0 0 1 14 1 1 12 137
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 0 0 1 0 0 3 8
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 1 1 1 103
Financial distress and happiness of employees in times of economic crisis 0 0 0 13 0 2 5 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 3 58 1 3 27 458
Geography of happiness: configurations of affective and cognitive appraisal of life across nations 0 0 0 5 0 0 4 38
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number 0 0 1 59 1 2 4 249
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number: Did the Promise of Enlightenment Come True? 0 0 0 8 1 2 2 63
Happiness Scale Interval Study. Methodological Considerations 0 0 1 21 0 0 5 100
Happiness and Consumption: A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive* †0 0 0 7 2 5 9 54
Happiness in shrinking cities in Germany 0 0 0 29 1 1 3 118
Happy Protest Voters: The Case of Rotterdam 1997–2009 0 0 1 2 1 1 4 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 1 2 5 38
Healthy happiness: effects of happiness on physical health and the consequences for preventive health care 0 0 1 203 0 2 8 1,436
Hedonism and Happiness 0 0 1 108 0 2 6 452
Homogenizing Responses to Different Survey Questions on the Same Topic: Proposal of a Scale Homogenization Method Using a Reference Distribution 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 36
How Does More Attention to Subjective Well-Being Affect Subjective Well-Being? 0 0 0 6 1 3 5 63
Index of Inequality-Adjusted Happiness (IAH) Improved: A Research Note 0 0 2 25 1 2 5 121
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 3 31 0 0 7 148
Introduction 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 40
Is happiness a trait? 0 0 0 11 0 0 1 68
Is happiness relative? 3 3 8 169 4 7 25 747
Lebensqualität in der bundesrepublik 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 19
Life is Getting Better: Societal Evolution and Fit with Human Nature 0 0 4 52 1 4 15 248
Life-satisfaction is more a matter of feeling well than having what you want. Tests of Veenhoven's theory 0 1 4 39 0 2 11 156
Livability of the welfare-state 0 0 1 9 0 0 2 31
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 1 4 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 1 1 1 1 2 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 1 1 1 23
Preface 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25
Quality-of-Life in Individualistic Society 1 1 2 17 1 1 5 104
Religiousness and happiness in three nations: a research note 0 0 1 101 0 0 6 386
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 1 1 28
Reviews 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 18
Rising Happiness in Nations 1946–2004: A Reply to Easterlin 0 0 0 23 0 2 2 129
Stability of Boundaries Between Response Options of Response Scales: Does ‘Very Happy’ Remain Equally Happy over the Years? 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 23
Stability of Life-satisfaction over Time 0 0 0 40 0 0 1 147
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 0 0 0 40 1 3 11 175
The Four Qualities of Life 0 0 5 224 1 10 32 1,123
The cross-national pattern of happiness: Test of predictions implied in three theories of happiness 0 1 1 32 0 1 5 152
The growing impact of marriage 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 27
The utility of happiness 0 1 2 27 0 1 7 121
The ‘10 Excess’ Phenomenon in Responses to Survey Questions on Happiness 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 26
Top-down versus bottom-up theories of subjective well-being 0 0 2 50 0 0 16 266
Two State-Trait Discussions on Happiness. A Reply to Stones et al 0 0 0 2 2 2 3 41
Unhappy Development: Dissatisfaction With Life on the Eve of the Arab Spring 0 1 1 12 0 4 10 124
Ways to Greater Happiness: A Delphi Study 0 0 0 8 0 1 2 57
Wealth and Happiness Revisited – Growing National Income Does Go with Greater Happiness 0 3 5 71 0 5 11 287
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 1 1 1 1 5 14
Why Social Policy Needs Subjective Indicators 0 0 0 25 1 1 2 110
Why are Locals Happier than Internal Migrants? The Role of Daily Life 0 0 1 33 1 1 7 146
Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive 0 0 1 12 0 2 7 56
World Database of Happiness 0 0 1 17 0 0 3 89
Total Journal Articles 5 15 71 2,325 37 102 405 11,713


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 1 9 270 5 14 53 1,166
Quality of life and happiness: concepts and measures 1 3 5 78 3 14 29 283
Quality-of-Life in the Modern Society Measured with Happy Life Years 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 7
World Database of Happiness: a ‘findings archive’ 0 0 1 13 0 0 4 35
Total Chapters 1 4 15 361 9 29 87 1,491


Statistics updated 2025-03-03