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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 1 4 21 365
Financial Distress and Happiness of Employees in Times of Economic Crisis 0 0 0 66 3 4 11 110
How universal is happiness? 0 0 4 228 1 6 16 527
Inequality in happiness: inequality in countries compared across countries 0 0 1 57 3 9 22 202
Life satisfaction in Nations 0 0 0 8 0 0 5 57
Measures of Gross National Happiness 0 0 1 268 2 7 19 887
Social Development and Happiness in Nations 0 0 2 76 1 3 10 307
Social equality and state welfare effort: More income-equality, no more equality in quality of life 0 0 0 32 2 5 6 151
Subjective Measures of Well-being 0 0 0 154 2 2 15 369
Sustainable consumption and happiness 0 0 1 128 3 9 26 395
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 0 0 5 269 2 13 31 767
The Establishment of the GENEQOL Consortium to Investigate the Genetic Disposition of Patient-Reported Quality-of-Life Outcomes 0 0 0 21 1 2 10 170
Unhappy development: dissatisfaction with life on the eve of the Arab spring 0 0 0 87 2 3 10 219
Using Subjective Well-Being as a Headline Indicator in Dashboards to Track Human Progress 12 25 25 25 1 8 8 8
Using Subjective Well-being as a Headline Indicator in Dashboards to Track Human Progress 0 14 14 14 1 9 9 9
Virtual Worlds as Petri Dishes for the Social and Behavioral Sciences 0 0 0 15 1 1 4 261
Why are Latin Europeans less happy? The impact of hierarchy 0 0 0 101 3 4 9 189
Why social policy needs subjective indicators 0 0 0 49 0 2 11 289
World Database of Happiness Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 0 0 0 84 3 5 19 332
World Database of happiness: Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 0 0 1 13 0 4 16 103
Total Working Papers 12 39 54 1,786 32 100 278 5,717


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A comment on Kozma's review of Conditions of Happiness 0 0 0 1 2 3 3 20
Ancient Chinese philosophical advice: can it help us find happiness today? 0 0 0 47 2 2 8 233
Apparent Quality-of-Life in Nations: How Long and Happy People Live 0 0 0 17 0 1 3 87
Are the Russians as Unhappy as they say they are? 0 0 0 25 0 1 7 108
Arts-of-Living 0 0 0 10 1 2 8 91
Book reviews 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 18
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 6 8 12 53
Capability and happiness: Conceptual difference and reality links 0 0 0 78 1 1 7 230
Co-development of Happiness Research: Addition to “Fifty Years After the Social Indicator Movement” 0 0 0 8 3 5 9 46
Consumption and happiness: an introduction 0 0 0 17 4 4 10 115
Contentment and Affect in the Estimation of Happiness 0 0 2 35 1 2 13 186
Contextual correlates of happiness in European adults 0 0 0 1 1 2 5 20
Conversion of Verbal Response Scales: Robustness Across Demographic Categories 0 0 0 0 2 4 10 37
Cultural bias in ratings of perceived life quality 0 0 0 2 1 3 6 25
Daily Activities and Happiness in Later Life: The Role of Work Status 0 0 0 11 2 3 6 108
Developments in satisfaction-research 0 0 3 19 1 1 11 99
Did the Easterlin Paradox apply in South Korea between 1980 and 2015? A case study 0 0 3 13 6 12 30 100
Do They Know How Happy They Are? On the Value of Self-Rated Happiness of People With a Mental Disorder 0 0 0 19 1 1 3 109
Does Happiness Foster Social Bonds? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive 0 0 0 0 1 2 15 16
Does intelligence boost happiness? Smartness of all pays more than being smarter than others 0 2 4 18 11 39 64 201
Editorial 0 0 0 6 2 4 11 49
Editorial: Special Issue on Subjective Well-being and Mental Health in the Early Days of COVID-19 0 0 0 2 2 6 14 23
Erratum to: Freedom and Happiness in Nations: A Research Synthesis 0 0 0 1 2 6 9 30
False Promise of Happiness 0 0 0 50 1 2 3 106
Financial distress and happiness of employees in times of economic crisis 0 1 2 15 4 5 15 85
Finding the Key to Happy Aging: A Day Reconstruction Study of Happiness 0 0 0 27 0 0 5 110
Freedom and Happiness in Nations: A Research Synthesis 0 0 0 59 2 6 18 477
Geography of happiness: configurations of affective and cognitive appraisal of life across nations 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 40
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number 0 0 0 59 4 4 12 261
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number: Did the Promise of Enlightenment Come True? 1 1 1 9 3 3 8 71
Happiness Scale Interval Study. Methodological Considerations 0 0 1 22 2 2 7 108
Happiness and Consumption: A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive* †0 0 1 8 1 3 17 74
Happiness and productivity: a research synthesis using an online findings archive 0 0 0 0 2 8 8 8
Happiness in shrinking cities in Germany 0 0 0 29 0 1 5 123
Happy Protest Voters: The Case of Rotterdam 1997–2009 0 0 0 2 2 3 5 38
Happy life-expectancy 0 0 0 13 1 3 9 82
Has modernisation gone too far? Modernity and happiness in 141 contemporary nations 0 0 0 8 3 4 12 50
Healthy happiness: effects of happiness on physical health and the consequences for preventive health care 1 1 2 206 3 6 37 1,475
Hedonism and Happiness 0 0 2 110 1 2 9 461
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 1 9 45
How Does More Attention to Subjective Well-Being Affect Subjective Well-Being? 0 0 0 6 0 2 7 70
How to Take Stock of Research Findings on Happiness in Regions Using the World Database of Happiness 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2
Index of Inequality-Adjusted Happiness (IAH) Improved: A Research Note 0 0 1 26 1 3 7 129
Inequality Of Happiness in Nations 0 0 0 46 3 6 8 140
Inequality-Adjusted Happiness in Nations Egalitarianism and Utilitarianism Married in a New Index of Societal Performance 1 1 1 30 1 2 7 126
Informed Pursuit of Happiness: What we should know, do know and can get to know 0 0 0 31 2 4 15 164
Introduction 0 0 0 9 1 4 8 48
Is happiness a trait? 0 1 1 12 0 1 6 74
Is happiness relative? 0 1 2 172 2 6 35 784
Lebensqualität in der bundesrepublik 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 22
Life is Getting Better: Societal Evolution and Fit with Human Nature 0 0 0 52 4 6 15 264
Life-satisfaction is more a matter of feeling well than having what you want. Tests of Veenhoven's theory 0 0 3 43 0 2 16 173
Livability of the welfare-state 0 0 0 10 2 2 12 44
Measuring Inequality of Happiness in Nations: In Search for Proper Statistics 0 0 0 53 4 4 10 203
Mood during commute in the Netherlands 0 0 1 10 2 4 11 111
Notions of Art-of-Living 0 0 0 14 0 1 5 66
Obituary Michael Argyle 1925–2002 0 0 0 6 1 1 4 88
Pioneer in Subjective Quality of Life Research: Willem Saris 0 0 0 1 1 2 5 12
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 3 5 28
Preface 0 0 0 0 2 3 7 32
Quality-of-Life in Individualistic Society 0 0 0 17 0 1 9 113
Religiousness and happiness in three nations: a research note 0 0 0 101 5 8 16 402
Return of Inequality in Modern Society? Test by Dispersion of Life-Satisfaction Across Time and Nations 0 0 0 41 0 2 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 0 1 62 3 4 12 335
Reviews 0 0 0 2 1 2 5 33
Reviews 0 0 0 2 1 2 5 23
Rising Happiness in Nations 1946–2004: A Reply to Easterlin 0 0 0 23 5 6 11 140
Stability of Boundaries Between Response Options of Response Scales: Does ‘Very Happy’ Remain Equally Happy over the Years? 0 0 0 3 0 1 4 27
Stability of Life-satisfaction over Time 0 0 0 40 0 1 8 156
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 0 0 4 44 3 6 21 197
The Four Qualities of Life 0 0 1 226 4 7 31 1,159
The cross-national pattern of happiness: Test of predictions implied in three theories of happiness 0 0 0 32 2 3 14 166
The growing impact of marriage 0 0 0 2 2 3 6 33
The utility of happiness 0 0 0 27 0 0 8 130
The ‘10 Excess’ Phenomenon in Responses to Survey Questions on Happiness 0 0 0 4 1 5 9 35
Top-down versus bottom-up theories of subjective well-being 1 1 1 52 8 16 24 292
Two State-Trait Discussions on Happiness. A Reply to Stones et al 0 0 0 2 1 1 7 49
Unhappy Development: Dissatisfaction With Life on the Eve of the Arab Spring 0 0 2 14 3 9 31 156
Ways to Greater Happiness: A Delphi Study 0 0 0 8 2 3 4 61
Wealth and Happiness Revisited – Growing National Income Does Go with Greater Happiness 0 0 0 71 2 4 15 302
Well-Being in Nations and Well-Being of Nations 0 0 0 29 1 1 7 94
What is in the name? Content analysis of questionnaires on perceived quality of one’s work life 0 0 0 1 1 3 7 21
Why Social Policy Needs Subjective Indicators 0 0 1 26 1 3 14 125
Why are Locals Happier than Internal Migrants? The Role of Daily Life 0 0 1 34 1 4 11 157
Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive 0 0 0 13 1 2 9 66
World Database of Happiness 0 0 0 17 1 2 12 101
Total Journal Articles 4 9 41 2,377 160 325 946 12,700


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 13 286 4 8 51 1,226
Quality of life and happiness: concepts and measures 1 1 7 85 5 8 29 315
Quality-of-Life in the Modern Society Measured with Happy Life Years 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 14
World Database of Happiness: a ‘findings archive’ 0 0 0 13 2 3 12 47
Total Chapters 1 2 20 384 11 23 99 1,602


Statistics updated 2026-05-06