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PREVALENCE of HAPPINESS Are people typically positive about their life?
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Are people typically positive about their life?, favorable, negative, neutral, rosy
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Publications that report an empirical study that used a valid measure of happiness, the results of which are eligible for inclusion in the findings archive

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List of Publications on this Subject

Authors Title / Source Year Bless, H.; Schwarz, N. Ist Schlechte Stimmung die Ausnahme? Eine Meta-analyse von Stimmungsuntersuchungen. (Is a Bad Mood the Exception? A Meta-analysis of Mood Investigations.)
Paper, University Heidelberg, 1984, Germany 1984 Csikszentmihalyi, M. Beyond Boredom and Anxiety.
Jossey Bass, 1975, San Francisco, USA 1975 Fordyce, M.W. A Review of Research on the Happiness Measures: A Sixty Second Index of Happiness and Mental Health.
Social Indicators Research, 1988, Vol. 20, 355 - 381 1988 Gallup, Human Needs and Satisfactions: A Global Survey.
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1976, Vol. 40, 459 - 467 1976 Hofstätter, P.R. Bedingungen der Zufriedenheit. (Conditions for Contentment.)
Interfrom Verlag, 1986, Zürich, Switzerland 1986 MacKaye, J. The Economy of Happiness.
Little & Brow, 1906, Boston, USA 1906 Moum, T. Is Subjective Well-Being a Predictor of Non-Response in Broad Population Surveys.
Social Indicators Research, 1994, Vol. 32, 1 - 20 1994 Myers, D.G. The Pursuit of Happiness. Who is Happy and Why?
William Morrow, 1992, New York, USA 1992 Siegler, I.C. Threats to External Validity in Survey Research with the Elderly: The Effects of Selective Drop-out on Health, Morale, Social Relations and Environmental Circumstances.
PhD Dissertation, Syracuse University, 1974, USA 1974 Silbermann, I. On 'Happiness'.
Psychoanalytic Studies of the Child, 1985, Vol. 40, 45 -472 1985 Soper, W.B. Preliminary Study of Ratings of Satisfaction by Male University Faculty.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1979, Vol. 48, 425 - 426 1979 Stones, M.J.; Kozma, A. A Magical Model of Happiness.
Social Indicators Research, 1991, Vol. 25, 31 - 50 1991 Swoboda, H. Die Qualität des Lebens: vom Wohlstand zum Wohlbefinden.(The Quality of Life, from Welfare to Well-being.)
Suhrkamp, 1974, Stuttgart, Germany, 86 - 113 1974 Veenhoven, R. Is Happiness Relative?
Social Indicators Research, 1991, Vol. 24, 1 - 34. 1991 Wessman, A.E.; Ricks, D.F. Mood and Personality.
Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 1966, New York, USA 1966 Cummins, R.A. On the Trait of the Gold Standard for Subjective Well-Being.
Social Indicators Research, 1995, Vol. 35, 179 - 200 1995 Szasz, T.S. Pain and Pleasure: A Study of Bodily Feelings.
Basic Books, 1957, New York, USA 1957 Lykken, D.T. Happiness: What Studies on Twins Show Us About Nature, Nurture and the Happiness Set-Point.
Golden Books, 1999, New York, USA 1999 Myers, D.G. The Funds, Friends, and Faith of Happy People.
The American Psychologist, 2000, Vol. 55, 56 - 67 2000 Staudinger, U.M. Das Paradox des subjektiven Wohlbefindens. (The Paradox of Subjective Well-Being).
Psychologische Rundschau, 2000, Vol. 51, 185 - 197 2000 Zelenski, J.M.; Larsen, R.J. The Distribution of Basic Emotions in Every Day Life: A State and Trait Perspective from Experience Sampling Data.
Journal of Research in Personality, 2000, Vol. 34, 178 - 197 2000 Diener, E.; Fujita, F.; Sandvik, E. What Subjective Well-Being Researchers Can Tell Emotion Researchers about Affect.
Paper 8th Conference International Society for Research on Emotion, 1994, USA 1994 Diener, E.; Diener, C. Most People Are Happy.
Psychological Science, 1996, Vol. 7, 181 - 185 1996 Veenhoven, R. Happiness as an Aim in Public Policy: the Greatest Happiness Principle.
Linley, R.A.; Joseph, S.; Eds.: "Positive Psychology in Practice", Wiley, 2004, USA, 658 - 678 2004 Biswas-Diener, R.; Diener, E.; Vitterso, J. Most People are Pretty Happy, but There is Cultural Variation:: The Inughuit, The Amish and the Maasai.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2005, Vol. 6, 205 - 226 2005 Veenhoven, R. Le Bonheur du plus grand Nombre comme But des Politiques Sociales. (The Greatest Happiness Principle: Happiness as an Public Policy).
Revue Québécoise de Psychologie, 2007, Vol. 28, 35- 60 2007 Lavallee, L.F.; Hatch, P.M; McKinley, T.; Michalos, A.C. Development of the Contentment with Life Assessment Scale (CLAS): Using Daily Life Experiences to Verify Levels of Self-Reported Life Satisfaction.
Social Indicators Research, 2007, Vol. 83, 201 - 244 2007 Chen, Z.; Davey, G. Normative Life Satisfaction in Chinese Societies.
Social Indicators Research, 2008, Vol. 89, 557 - 564 2008 Haybron, D.M. Happiness. A Very Short Introduction.
Oxford University Press, 2013, UK 2013 Diener, E.; Kanazawa, S.; Suh, E.M. Why People Are in a Generally Good Mood.
Personality and Social Psychology Review 2015, Vol. 19, 235 - 256 2015 Diener, E.; Choi, H.; Diener, C. Revisiting "Most People Are Happy" - And Discovering When They Are Not.
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2018, Vol. 13, 166 - 170 2018 Ponocny, I.; Stross, B.; Weismayer, Ch. Are Most People Happy? Exploring the Meaning of Subjective Well-Being Ratings
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2016, Vol. 17, 2635 - 2653 2016