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Bibliographic subject: Comparison across nations/languages

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MEASUREMENT of HAPPINESS Measurability of happiness Comparability of happiness measurements Comparison across populations Comparison across nations/languages
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Comparison across nations/languages,cross-cultural comparison
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Authors Title / Source Year Andrews, F.M. Comparative Studies of Life Quality: Comments on the Current State of the Art and some Issues for Future Research.
Szalai, A.;Andrews, F.M.,Eds.: "The Quality of Life", Sage, 1980, London, UK 1980 Armer, J.M. Formal Education and Psychological Malaise in an African Society.
Sociology of Education, 1970, Vol. 43, 143 - 158 1970 Davis, E.E.; Fine-Davis, M. Social Indicators of Living Conditions in Ireland with European Comparisons.
Social Indicators Research, 1991, Vol. 25, 290 - 329 1991 Headey, B.; Wearing, A.J. Understanding Happiness: A Theory of Subjective Well-Being.
Longman Cheshire, 1992, Melbourne, Australia 1992 Iijima, K. The Feelings of Satisfaction and Happiness of the Japanese and Other People.
Paper, Nippon Research Center, May 1982, Japan 1982 Inglehart, R. The Silent Revolution.
Princeton University Press, 1977, Princeton, USA 1977 Ostroot, N.; Shin, D.C.; Snyder, W.W. Quality of Life Perceptions in Two Cultures.
Social Indicators Research, 1982, Vol. 11, 113 - 138 1982 Ostroot, N.; Snyder, W.W. Measuring Cultural Bias in a Cross-National Study.
Social Indicators Research, 1985, Vol. 17, 243 - 251 1985 Ouweneel, P.; Veenhoven, R. Cross-National Differences in Happiness: Cultural Bias or Societal Quality?
Bleichrodt, N.; Drenth, P.J.; Eds.: "Contemporary Issues in Cross Cultural Psychology, Swets & Zeitlinger, 1990/91, Lisse, Netherlands 1990 Quereshi, M.Y. Cross-cultural Validation of the Michill Adjective Rating Scale (MARS).
Social Behavior and Personality, 1983, Vol. 11, 33 - 37 1983 Veenhoven, R. Leefbaarheid van Landen. (Livability of Countries).
Paper Presented at Conference of the Dutch Union for Sociology and Antropology, Autumn 1990, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1990 Veenhoven, R. Happiness in Nations.
Studies in Socio-Cultural Transformation, nr. 2, RISBO, 1993, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands 1993 Balatsky, G.; Diener, E. Subjective Well-Being among Russian Students.
Social Indicators Research, 1993, Vol. 28, 225 - 243 1993 Diener, E.; Diener, M. Cross-Cultural Correlates of Life Satisfaction and Self-Esteem.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1995, Vol. 68, 653 - 663 1995 Diener, E.; Diener, C.; Diener, M. Factors Predicting the Subjective Well-Being of Nations.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1995, Vol. 69, 851 - 864 1995 Diener, E.; Shao, L.; Smith, H.L.; Suh, E.M. National Differences in Reported Subjective Well-Being: Why do They Occur?
Social Indicators Research, 1995, Vol. 34, 7 - 32 1995 Goyder, J.; McCutcheon, T.I. Francophone Life-Satisfaction and Civic Culture: A Meta-Analysis of the Canadian Case.
Social Indicators Research, 1995, Vol. 34, 377 - 394 1995 Diener, E. Subjective Well-Being in Cross-Cultural Perspective.
Grad, H.;et al;Eds.: "Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Cross-Cultural Psychology", Swets & Zeitlinger, 1995, Netherlands 1995 Melich, A. National Dissatisfaction and Distrust in Europe: The Case Switzerland.
DeMoor, R.;Ed.: "Values in Western Societies", Tilburg University Press, 1995, Tilburg, Netherlands, 83 - 89 1995 Diener, E.; Suh, E.M. Measuring Quality of Life: Economic, Social and Subjective Indicators.
Social Indicators Research, 1997, Vol. 40, 189 - 216 1997 Russell, J.A.; Sato, K. Comparing Emotion Words Between Languages.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1995, Vol. 26, 384 -391 1995 Veenhoven, R. Die Lebenszufriedenheit der Burger. Ein Indikator für die 'Lebbarkeit' von Gesellschaften? ((Lifesatisfaction as an Indicator of Livability of Nations?)
Nol, H.H.;Ed.: "Sozialberichterstattung in Deutschland", Juventa, 1997, Germany, 267 - 293 1997 Veenhoven, R. Average Level of Satisfaction in 10 European Countries: Explanation of Differences.
Saris, W.E.;et al;Eds.: "A Comparative Study of Satisfaction with Life in Europe", Eötvös University Press,1996, Hungary, 243 - 252 1996 Saris, W.E.; Bunting, B.; Scherpenzeel, A.C.; Veenhoven, R. A Comparative Study of Satisfaction with Life in Europe.
Eötvös University Press, 1996, Budapest, Hungary 1996 Tucker, K.L.; Boehm, J.K.; Lyubomirsky, S.; Ozer, D.J. Testing for Measurement Invariance in the Satisfaction with Life Scale: A Comparison of Russians and North Americans.
Social Indicators Research, 2006, Vol. 78, 341 - 360 2006 Diener, E.; Suh, E.M. Measuring Subjective Well-Being to Compare Quality-of-Life of Cultures.
Diener, E.; Suh, E.M.; Eds.: "Culture and Subjective Well-Being", MIT Press, 2000, Cambridge, USA, 3 - 12 2000 Hampton, N.Z.; Marshall, A. Culture, Gender, Self-Efficacy, and Life Satisfaction: A Comparison between Americans and Chinese People with Spinal Cord Injuries.
Journal of Rehabilitation, 2000, Vol. 66, 21 - 28 2000 Suh, E.M. Psychocultural Factors of Subjective Well-Being.
Paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Association Convention, 1994, Chicago, USA 1994 Veenhoven, R. Vergelijken van Geluk in Landen. (Comparing Happiness across Nations).
Sociale Wetenschappen, 1998, Vol. 41, 58 - 84 1998 Veenhoven, R. Are the Russians as Unhappy as They Say They Are? Comparability of Self-Reports Across Nations.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2001, Vol. 2, 111 - 136 2001 Vitterso, J.; Diener, E.; Roysamb, E. The Concept of Life Satisfaction Across Cultures: Exploring its Diverse Meaning and Relation to Economic Wealth.
Gullone, E.;Cummins, R.A.;Eds.: "The Universality of Subjective Wellbeing Indicators", Kluwer, 2002, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 81 - 103 2002 Hirata, J. Happiness and Economics. Some Ethical Considerations.
Discussion Paper No. 99, Institute for Business Ethics, 2003, St. Gallen, Switzerland 2003 Scollon, C.N.; Biswas-Diener, R.; Diener, E.; Oishi, S. Emotions Across Cultures and Methods.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2004, Vol. 35, 304 - 326 2004 Oishi, S. The Experiencing and Remembering of Well-Being: A Cross-Cultural Analysis.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2002, Vol. 28, 1398 - 1406 2002 Layard, R. Happiness: Has Social Science a Clue?
London School of Economics, 2003, Lionel Robbins Memorial Lecture 2002/3, London, UK 2002 Lu, L.J.; Gilmour, R. Culture, Self and Ways to Achieve SWB: A Cross-Cultural Analysis.
Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies, 2004, Vol. 5, 51 - 79 2004 Diener, E.; Lucas, R.E.; Oishi, S. Personality, Culture and Subjective Well-Being: Emotional and Cognitive Evaluations of Life.
Annual Revue of Psychology, 2003, Vol. 54, 403 - 425 2003 Lau, A.L.D.; Cummins, R.A.; McPherson, W. An Investigation into the Cross-Cultural Equivalence of the Personal Well-Being Index.
Social Indicators Research, 2005, Vol. 72, 403 - 430 2004 Park, N.; Gilman, R.; Huebner, E.S.; Laughlin, J.E.; Valois, R.F. A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Dimensions of Child and Adolescent Life Satisfaction Reports.
Social Indicators Research, 2004, Vol. 66, 61 - 79 2004 Camfield, L. Subjective Measures of Well-Being in Subjective Measures Developing Countries.
Glatzer, W.; Von Below, S.; Stoffregen, M.; Eds.: "Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World", Kluwer, 2004, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 45 - 59 2004 Eid, M.; Diener, E. Norms for Experiencing Emotions in Different Cultures: Inter- and Intranational Differences.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001, Vol. 81, 869 - 885 2001 Wierzbicka, A. Happiness in Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspective.
Daedalus, 2004, Vol. 133, 34 - 43 2004 Vitterso, J.; Biswas-Diener, R.; Diener, E. The Divergent Meanings of Life Satisfaction; Item Response Modeling of the Satisfaction with Life Scale in Greenland and Norway.
Social Indicators Research, 2005, Vol. 74, 327 - 348 2005 Diener, E. Guidelines for National Indicators of Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2006, Vol. 7, 397 - 404 2006 Manabe, K Cross-National Comparison of the Structure of Well-Being: Examination based on Data from the World Values Survey.
School of Sociology Journal, 2005, No.98, 17 - 33 2005 Manabe, K The Culture of Happiness and Satisfaction in Asia: Data Analysis of the AsiaBarometer Survey.
Social Sciences Review, 2005, Vol. 10, 1 - 9 2005 Manabe, K The Culture of Happiness and Satisfaction in Asia.
Inoguchi, T;, Eds.: "Human Beliefs and Values in Striding Asia", Akashi Shoten, 2006, Tokyo, Japan, 1 - 16, 295 - 310 2006 Blanchflower, D.G. International Evidence on Well-Being.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3354, Institute of the Study of Labor, 2008, Bonn, Germany 2008 Lucas, R.E.; Diener, E. Can We Learn about National Differences in Happiness from Individual Responses? A Multilevel Approach.
VandeVijver, F.J.;et al;Eds.: ''Multilevel Analysis of Individuals and Cultures'', Lawrence Erlbaum, 2008, New York, USA, 223 - 248 2008 Scollon, C.N.; Caldwell, A.E.; Howard, A.H.; Ito, S. The Role of Ideal Affect in the Experience and Memory of Emotions.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2009, Vol. 10, 257 -2 69 2009 Diener, E.; Oishi, S. Are Scandinavians Happier than Asians? Issues in comparing Nations on Subjective Well-Being.
Columbus, F.; Ed.: "Asian Economic and Political Issues", 2004, Vol. 10, 1 - 25 2004 Veenhoven, R. Comparability of Happiness accross Nations.
School of Sociology and Social Work Journal no.104, Kwansei Gakuin University, 2008, Kobe, Japan. 2008 Bolle, F.; Kemp, S. Can we Compare Life Satisfaction between Nationalities? Evaluating Actual and Imagined Situations.
Social Indicators Research, 2009, Vol. 90, 397 - 408 2009 Helliwell, J.F. Life Satisfaction and Quality of Development.
NBER Working Paper no. 14507, 2008, Cambridge, USA 2008 Bjornskov, C. How Comparable are the Gallup World Poll Life Statisfaction Data?
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2010, Vol.11, 41- 60 2010 Veenhoven, R. Cross-National Differences in Happiness: Cultural Measurement Bias or Effect of Culture?
International Journal of Wellbeing, 2012, Vol. 2, 333 - 353 2012 Helliwell, J.F.; Wang, S. The State of World Happiness.
Helliwell, J.F.;Layard, R.;Wang, S.;Eds.: "World Happiness Report'', Earth Institute, Columbia University, 2012, New York, USA, Chapter 2 2012 Tay, L.; Diener, E.; Drasgow, F. Multilevel Mixed-Measurement IRT Analysis: An Explication to Self-Reported Emotions across the World.
Organizational Research Methods, 2011, Vol. 14, 177 - 207 2011 Samman, E. Psychological and subjective Well-being: a Proposal for internationally comparable Indicators.
Oxford Development Studies, 2007, Vol. 35, 459 - 486 2007 Angelini, V.; Cavapozzi, D.; Paccagnella, O. Do Danes and Italians rate Life Satisfaction in the Same Way? Using Vignettes to Correct for Individual-Specific Scale Biases.
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014,Vol. 76, 643 - 666 2014 Coulmas, F. The Quest for Happiness in Japan.
Working Paper 09/1, 2008, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Germany 2008 Oishi, S. The Concept of Life Satisfaction across Cltures: An IRT Analysis.
Journal of Research in Personality, 2006, Vol. 40, 411 -423 2006 Fischer, J.A. Subjective Well-Being as Welfare Measure: Concepts and Methodology.
MPRA Paper no 16619, 2009, München, Germany 2009 Oishi, S.; Diener, E.; Schimmack, U. The value-congruence Model of Memory for emotional Experiences: an Explanation for cultural Differences in emotional Self-reports.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2007, Vol. 93, 897 - 905 2007 Oishi, S.; Roth, D.P. The Role of Self-reports in culture and personality Research: it is too early to giev uo Self-reports.
Journal of Research in Personality, 2009, Vol. 43, 107 - 109 2009 Thompson, E.R. Development and Validation of an Internationally Reliable Short-Form of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS).
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2007, Vol. 38, 227 - 242 2007 Trockman, C.T.; Kadohiro, J.K.; Murdaugh, C. Adapting Instruments for Caregiver Research in Elderly Japanese American Women.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 1997, Vol. 12, 109 - 120 1997 Tov, W.; Au, E., W., M. Comparing Well-Being Across Nations: Conceptual and Emperical Issues.
David, S. A.; Boniwell, I.; Ayers, A. C.; Eds: "The Oxford Handbook of Happiness", Oxford University Press, 2013, Oxford, UK, 17 - 34 2013 MacIntosh, R. A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Affect Balance Scale in 38 Nations: A Research Note.
Social Psychology Quarterly, 1998, Vol. 61, 83 - 95 1998 Gilman, R.; Huebner, E.S.; Park, N.; Tian, L. Cross-National Adolescent Multidimentional Life Satisfaction Reports: Analyses of Mean Scores andResponse Style Differences.
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008, Vol. 37, 142 - 154 2008 Singelis, T.M.; Barrio, C.; Yamada, A.M. Metric Equivalence of the Bidimensional Acculturation Scale, the Satisfaction With Life Scale, and the Self-Construal Scale, Across Spanish and English Language Versions.
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2006, Vol. 28, 231 - 244 2006 Mathews, G. Happiness, Culture and Context.
International Journal of Wellbeing, 2012, Vol. 2, 299 - 312 2012 Lora, E Beyond Facts: Understanding Quality of Life. Chapter 2: The personality of Quality of Life Perceptions.
IDB, Book, 2008, Chapter 2, 15 - 39 2008 Casas, F. Analysing the Comparability of 3 Multi-Item Subjective Well-Being Psychometric Scales Among 15 Countries Using Samples of 10 and 12-Year-Olds.
Child Indicators Research, 2016, Published Online, 1 - 34 2016 Moller, V.; Roberts, B.; Zani, D. The Personal Wellbeing Index in the South African IsiXhosa Translation: A Qualitative Focus Group Study.
Social Indicators Research, 2015, Volume 124, 835 - 862 2015 Jorm, A.F.; Ryan, S. Cross-national and Historical Differences in Subjective Well-Being.
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2014, Vol.43, 330 - 340 2014 Kim, H.; Schimmack, U. The Role of Positive Self-Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Difference in Well-Being.
Cross-Cultural Research, 2015, 1 - 15, 2015 Sheldon, K.M.; Lyubomirsky, S.; Osin, E.N. Russians Inhibit the Expression of Happiness to Strangers: Testing a Display Rule Model
Journal of Cross-Psychology, 2017, Vol. 48, 1 - 16 2017 Baier, D,; Boehnke, K. Subjektives Wohlbefinden im Kulturvergleich. Subjective Well-being Accros Cultures.
Anwendungsfelder der kulturvergeleichenden Psychologie, 2007, Chapter 9, 464 - 489 2007 Kim, H. Cultural Differences in Self- and other Evaluations Well-Being: A Study of European and Asian Canadians.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012, 1 - 18 2012 Lolle, H.L.; Andersen, H. Measuring Happiness and Overall Life Satisfaction: A Danish Survey Experiment on the Impact of Language and Translation Problems.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2016, Vol. 17, 1337 - 1350 2016 Schnettler, B.; Lobos, G.; Miranda-Zapata, E. Measurement Invariance in the Satisfaction with Life Scale in Chilean and Ecuadorian Older Adults
Personality and Individual Differences, 2017, Vol. 110, 96 - 101 2017 Caballo, C.; Crespo, M.; Jenaro, C. Factor Structure of the Schalock and Keith Quality of Life Questionnaire (QOL-Q): Validation on Mexican and Spanish Samples.
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2005, Vol. 49, 773-776 2005 Sachs, J. Validation of the Satisfaction with Life Scale in a Sample of Hong Kong University Students.
Psychologia, 2003, Vol. 46, 225 - 234 2003 Zemojtel-Piotrowska, M.; Cieciuch, J.; Piotrowski, J. Measurement Invariance of Personal Well-Being Index (PWI-8) Across 26 Countries
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, Vol. 18, 1697 - 1711 2017 Bieda, A.; Hirschfeld, G.; Schönfeld, P. Universal Happiness? Cross-cultural Measurement Invariance of Scales Assessing Positive Mental Health.
Psychological Assessment, 2017, Vol 29, 408-421 2017 Eckersley, R. Subjective Wellbeing: Telling Only Half the Story. A Commentary on Diener et al. (2012). Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales.
Social lndicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112, 529 - 534 2013 Rojas-Gualdron, D.F. Inter-Regional Metric Disadvantages When Comparing Country Happiness on a Global Scale. A Rasch-Based Consequential Validity Analysis.
International Journal of Psychological Research, 2017, Vol. 10, 26 - 33 2017 Mellor, K.S.; Caballero, F.F. Measurement Invariance of the Day Reconstruction Method: Results from the COURAGE in Europe Project.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2016, Vol. 17, 1769 - 1787 2016 Krohne, H.W.; Egloff, B.; Kohlmann, C.W.; Tausch, A.M. Untersuchungen mit einer deutschen Version der ''Positive and Negative Affect Schedule'' (PANAS). (Research with a German Version of ''Positive and Negative Affect Schedule'' (PANAS).
Diagnostica, 1996, Vol. 42, 139 - 156 1996 Thin, N. Qualitive Approaches to Culture and Well-being
E. Diener, S. Oishi, & L. Tay (Eds.), "Handbook of well-being", 2018, DEF Publisers, Salt Lake City, United States of America, 1-20 2018 Tov, W.; Diener, E. Culture and SubjectiveWell-Being
E. Diener (ed.), "Culture and Well-Being: The Collected Works of Ed Diener", 2007, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., Dordrecht, Netherlands 2007 Joshanloo, M. The Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of Positive and Negative Affect: A Study in Iran and the USA
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2016, Vol. 32, 265-272 2016 Nonnenmacher, A.; Friedrichs, J. The Missing Link: Deficits of Country-Level Studies. A Review of 22 Articles Explaining Life Satisfaction.
Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 110, 1221 - 1244 2013 Ponizovsky, Y.; Dimitrova, R.; Schachner, M.K. The Satisfaction With Life Scale: Measurement Invariance across Immigrant Groups
European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2013, Vol. 10, 526 - 532 2013 Tomyn, A.; Cummins, R.A.; Stokes, M.A. A Rasch Analysis of the Personal Well-Being Index in School Children
Evaluation & the Health Professions, 2019, 1 - 22 2019 Lee, D.J.; Sirgy, M.J.; Yu, G.B. Culture and Well-Being: A Research Agenda Designed to Improve Cross-Cultural Research nvolving the Life Satisfaction Construct
Brulé, G. and Maggino, F. (Eds.):"Metrics of Subjective Well-Being: Limits and Improivements" 2017, Springer Internationol Publishing AG, Cham, Switserlan 2017 Guntuku, S.C.; Li, M.; Tay, L. Studying Cultural Differences in Emoji Usage across the East and theWest
Conference Paper, 2019, The 13th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2019), Munich, Germany 2019 Levisen, C. The story of "Danish Happiness". Global Discourse and Local Semantics
International Journal of Language and Culture, 2015, Vol. 1, 174 - 193 2014 Rappleye, J.; Komatsu, H.; Uchida, Y. ‘Better Policies for Better Lives’?: Constructive Critique of the OECD’s (mis)Measure of Student Well-being
Journal of Education Policy, 2019, 1 - 25 2019 Eurofound, Life and Society in the EU Candidate Countries
Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union 2019 Brulé, G Petites mythodologies du bonheur Francais. (Minor myrrgodologies of French happiness)
Dunod, 2020, Paris, France 2020 Emerson, S.D.; Gadermann, A.M.; Guhn, M. Measurement Invariance of the Satisfaction with Life Scale: Reviewing Three Decades of Research
Quality of Life Research, 2017, Vol. 26, 2251 - 2264 2017 Jang, S.; Cao, C.; Kim, E.S. Measurement Invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale Across 26 Countries
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2017, Vol. 48, 560 - 576 2017 Sirgy, M.J.; Estes, R.J.; Selian, A.N. How We Measure Well-Being: The Data Behind the History of Well-Being
R.J. Estes, M.J. Sirgy (eds.), The Pursuit of Human Well-Being, International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life, 2017, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Chapter 6 2017 Dogan, T.; Akinci Cotok, N. Adaptation of the Short Form of the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire into Turkish: A Validity and Reliability Study
Türk Psikolojik Danışma ve Rehberlik Dergis, 2011, Vol. 4, 165 - 172 2011 Extremera, N.; Fernandez-Berrocal, P. The Subjective Happiness Scale: Translation and Preliminary Psychometric Evaluation of a Spanish Version
Social Indicators Research, 2014, Vol. 119, 473-481 2014 Farage, M.A.; Chen, J.; Rodenberg, C. Translation and Validation of the Farage Quality Life (FQoLTM) Instrument for Consumer Products into Traditional Chinese
Global Journal of Health Science, 2013, Vol. 5, 1-12 2013