Metrics of subjective well-being

Description

This volume analyses the quantification of the effect of factors measuring subjective well-being, and in particular on the metrics applied. With happiness studies flourishing over the last decades, both in number of publications as well as in their exposure, researchers working in this field are aware of potential weaknesses and pitfalls of these metrics. Contributors to this volume reflect on different factors influencing quantification, such as scale size, wording, language, biases, and cultural comparability in order to raise awareness on the tools and on their conditions of use. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Towards More Complexity in Subjective Well-Being Studies (Gaël Brulé, Filomena Maggino)....Pages 1-17 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 Can Good Life Be Measured? The Dimensions and Measurability of a Life Worth Living (Frank Martela)....Pages 21-42 The Subjective Object of Well-Being Studies: Well-Being as the Experience of Being Well (Mariano Rojas)....Pages 43-62 Front Matter ....Pages 63-63 Measures of Happiness: Which to Choose? (Ruut Veenhoven)....Pages 65-84 Explaining the Decline in Subjective Well-Being Over Time in Panel Data (Katia Iglesias, Pascale Gazareth, Christian Suter)....Pages 85-105 Reducing Current Limitations in Order to Enhance the Quality of Subjective Well-Being Research: The Example of Mindfulness (Rebecca Shankland, Ilios Kotsou, Caroline Cuny, Lionel Strub, Nicholas J. L. Brown)....Pages 107-132 Measuring Indecision in Happiness Studies (Stefania Capecchi)....Pages 133-153 Front Matter ....Pages 155-155 Evaluating Comparability of Survey Data on Subjective Well-being (Ingebjørg Kristoffersen)....Pages 157-184 Label Scale and Rating Scale in Subjective Well-Being Measurement (Ester Macri)....Pages 185-200 Front Matter ....Pages 201-201 Culture and Well-Being: A Research Agenda Designed to Improve Cross-Cultural Research Involving the Life Satisfaction Construct (Dong-Jin Lee, Grace B. Yu, Joseph Sirgy)....Pages 203-221 Objective and Subjective Indices of Well-Being: Resolving the Easterlin Happiness–Income Paradox (Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb, Emma Zang)....Pages 223-235 Methods to Increase the Comparability in Cross-National Surveys, Highlight on the Scale Interval Method and the Reference Distribution Method (Tineke de Jonge)....Pages 237-262 Back Matter ....Pages 263-264