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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 88 0 1 11 336
Financial Distress and Happiness of Employees in Times of Economic Crisis 0 0 1 66 0 0 2 97
How universal is happiness? 0 0 3 224 0 1 13 506
Inequality in happiness: inequality in countries compared across countries 0 0 3 54 0 0 8 174
Life satisfaction in Nations 0 0 0 8 0 1 1 50
Measures of Gross National Happiness 0 0 3 267 0 0 7 861
Social Development and Happiness in Nations 0 0 1 74 1 2 12 288
Social equality and state welfare effort: More income-equality, no more equality in quality of life 0 0 0 31 0 1 1 142
Subjective Measures of Well-being 0 0 4 150 1 2 13 346
Sustainable consumption and happiness 0 0 1 125 1 1 8 364
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 1 1 4 264 5 5 24 728
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 2 87 0 0 3 207
Virtual Worlds as Petri Dishes for the Social and Behavioral Sciences 0 0 0 15 0 0 1 257
Why are Latin Europeans less happy? The impact of hierarchy 0 0 2 101 0 0 3 179
Why social policy needs subjective indicators 0 0 0 49 0 0 7 278
World Database of Happiness Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 0 0 0 84 0 2 2 312
World Database of happiness: Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’ 0 0 0 12 0 1 1 85
Total Working Papers 1 1 25 1,720 8 17 117 5,369


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A comment on Kozma's review of Conditions of Happiness 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 17
Ancient Chinese philosophical advice: can it help us find happiness today? 0 0 1 47 0 0 10 224
Apparent Quality-of-Life in Nations: How Long and Happy People Live 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 84
Are the Russians as Unhappy as they say they are? 0 0 0 25 0 0 2 99
Arts-of-Living 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 80
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 0 3 0 1 5 37
Capability and happiness: Conceptual difference and reality links 0 1 1 76 0 2 4 221
Co-development of Happiness Research: Addition to “Fifty Years After the Social Indicator Movement” 0 1 2 6 0 1 2 34
Consumption and happiness: an introduction 0 0 1 16 0 1 6 102
Contentment and Affect in the Estimation of Happiness 1 3 6 33 2 6 33 164
Contextual correlates of happiness in European adults 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 15
Conversion of Verbal Response Scales: Robustness Across Demographic Categories 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 26
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 1 11 1 1 5 102
Developments in satisfaction-research 0 0 4 16 2 2 10 88
Did the Easterlin Paradox apply in South Korea between 1980 and 2015? A case study 1 1 1 10 4 4 5 63
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 2 104
Does intelligence boost happiness? Smartness of all pays more than being smarter than others 0 0 1 14 1 2 12 131
Editorial 0 0 0 6 1 1 2 38
Editorial: Special Issue on Subjective Well-being and Mental Health in the Early Days of COVID-19 0 0 1 1 0 0 6 6
Erratum to: Freedom and Happiness in Nations: A Research Synthesis 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 20
False Promise of Happiness 0 0 0 50 0 0 0 102
Financial distress and happiness of employees in times of economic crisis 0 0 0 13 0 1 3 67
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 0 5 57 2 4 35 444
Geography of happiness: configurations of affective and cognitive appraisal of life across nations 0 0 0 5 0 1 5 38
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number 0 0 1 59 0 0 2 246
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number: Did the Promise of Enlightenment Come True? 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 61
Happiness Scale Interval Study. Methodological Considerations 0 0 1 21 1 2 8 100
Happiness and Consumption: A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive* †0 0 2 7 0 1 7 47
Happiness in shrinking cities in Germany 0 0 0 29 0 1 4 117
Happy Protest Voters: The Case of Rotterdam 1997–2009 0 0 1 2 0 1 4 31
Happy life-expectancy 0 0 0 13 0 0 3 72
Has modernisation gone too far? Modernity and happiness in 141 contemporary nations 0 0 1 7 0 0 4 34
Healthy happiness: effects of happiness on physical health and the consequences for preventive health care 0 1 1 203 0 2 11 1,432
Hedonism and Happiness 0 0 4 108 0 1 11 450
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 1 34
How Does More Attention to Subjective Well-Being Affect Subjective Well-Being? 0 0 1 6 0 0 4 58
Index of Inequality-Adjusted Happiness (IAH) Improved: A Research Note 0 1 3 25 0 1 4 118
Inequality Of Happiness in Nations 0 0 0 46 0 0 2 132
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 4 31 0 0 11 146
Introduction 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 40
Is happiness a trait? 0 0 1 11 0 0 1 67
Is happiness relative? 0 0 4 163 1 4 18 731
Lebensqualität in der bundesrepublik 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 18
Life is Getting Better: Societal Evolution and Fit with Human Nature 0 0 2 49 1 2 10 240
Life-satisfaction is more a matter of feeling well than having what you want. Tests of Veenhoven's theory 0 0 3 36 0 1 17 151
Livability of the welfare-state 0 1 1 9 0 1 1 30
Measuring Inequality of Happiness in Nations: In Search for Proper Statistics 0 0 1 53 0 0 3 193
Mood during commute in the Netherlands 0 0 0 9 0 0 4 94
Notions of Art-of-Living 0 0 0 14 0 0 1 61
Obituary Michael Argyle 1925–2002 0 0 0 6 0 1 2 83
Pioneer in Subjective Quality of Life Research: Willem Saris 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
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 0 1 22
Preface 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 25
Quality-of-Life in Individualistic Society 0 0 1 16 0 0 3 102
Religiousness and happiness in three nations: a research note 0 0 1 101 0 2 7 385
Return of Inequality in Modern Society? Test by Dispersion of Life-Satisfaction Across Time and Nations 0 0 0 41 0 1 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 0 17
Reviews 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 27
Rising Happiness in Nations 1946–2004: A Reply to Easterlin 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 127
Stability of Boundaries Between Response Options of Response Scales: Does ‘Very Happy’ Remain Equally Happy over the Years? 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 22
Stability of Life-satisfaction over Time 0 0 0 40 0 1 2 147
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness 0 0 1 40 1 1 19 171
The Four Qualities of Life 0 0 4 221 1 5 23 1,106
The cross-national pattern of happiness: Test of predictions implied in three theories of happiness 0 0 1 31 0 1 6 149
The growing impact of marriage 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 27
The utility of happiness 0 0 1 26 0 2 6 117
The ‘10 Excess’ Phenomenon in Responses to Survey Questions on Happiness 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 25
Top-down versus bottom-up theories of subjective well-being 0 1 3 49 0 5 21 262
Two State-Trait Discussions on Happiness. A Reply to Stones et al 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 39
Unhappy Development: Dissatisfaction With Life on the Eve of the Arab Spring 0 0 1 11 0 1 7 116
Ways to Greater Happiness: A Delphi Study 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 55
Wealth and Happiness Revisited – Growing National Income Does Go with Greater Happiness 0 0 2 67 0 1 9 280
Well-Being in Nations and Well-Being of Nations 0 0 0 29 0 0 4 87
What is in the name? Content analysis of questionnaires on perceived quality of one’s work life 0 0 1 1 0 2 6 13
Why Social Policy Needs Subjective Indicators 0 0 0 25 0 0 0 108
Why are Locals Happier than Internal Migrants? The Role of Daily Life 0 0 1 33 0 1 11 144
Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive 0 0 1 11 0 1 7 52
World Database of Happiness 0 0 1 17 0 1 5 88
Total Journal Articles 2 10 75 2,293 21 75 450 11,510


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 9 266 0 10 69 1,141
Quality of life and happiness: concepts and measures 0 0 4 75 2 2 16 260
Quality-of-Life in the Modern Society Measured with Happy Life Years 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6
World Database of Happiness: a ‘findings archive’ 0 0 5 13 0 2 13 35
Total Chapters 0 1 18 354 2 14 99 1,442


Statistics updated 2024-09-04