Contents

• A collection of scientific publications on happiness, defined as the subjective enjoyment of one’s life-as-a-whole.

Scope

• Any scientific publication that refers to the subjective appreciation of life-as-a-whole, even if this subject is only a side-issue.
• Not included are related fields like ‘mental health’, ‘social adjustment’ ‘alienation’ and satisfaction with ‘domains of life’.

Coverage at 1-7-2020

• About 15000 publications.
• Almost complete coverage of the social-science literature up to 2019 in English, German, and Dutch.
• Includes journal articles, books, dissertations, conference papers and unpublished research reports.

Descriptives

• Title descriptions involving:
  • Author, title, publisher or journal, year of publication
  • Language of the report
  • Type of study
    
• Subject classification of about 450 categories
  
• Classification of reported empirical studies by
  • Time frame: past / present / future / perceived change
  • Variant measured: overall happiness / hedonic level / contentment
  • Eligible for inclusion in the findings archive, depending on whether the happiness measure fits our conceptualization
  • If eligible: finding entered in the database or waiting to be entered
    
• Links to full text of about half of the publications

Links to:

• Introductory text to this Bibliography of Happiness
• How to search in this Bibliography of Happiness
• Search screen of this Bibliography of Happiness