This collection consists of research findings on happiness in special publics, that is, populations other than the general public living in an area.

This collection does not include sub-groups selected from samples in wider populations, e.g. elderly persons selected from a sample of the general population in a country as presented in a specification of a correlational finding. The classification provides links to such ‘related subjects’

Special publics in which happiness has often been assessed are:

• adolescents
• elderly
• medical patients
• migrants
• user of a happiness training

Some exceptional special publics are:

• monks
• prostitutes
• prisoners

This collection holds distributional findings and correlational findings in these populations

This collection can be searched on

• place and time of the investigation
• measure of happiness used
• subject of correlational findings, if any
• methods of investigation

Go to: Classification of special publics

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