Below are some illustrations of where to go on this site if you seek answers to questions about happiness
What is ‘happiness”?
| Key text | Introductory text to the Bibliography, chapter 2 Concept of Happiness |
| Literature | Bibliography of Happiness: Subject section CONCEPTS OF HAPPINESS |
Can happiness be measured?
| Key text | Diener, E. (1994 ) Assessing subjective well-being, Social Indicators Research, 31, 103 – 157 |
| Literature | Bibliography of Happiness: Subject section MEASURES OF HAPPINESS >> Can happiness be measured? |
How is happiness measured?
| Key text | Introductory text to the collection Measures of Happiness, chapter 3 Methods for Measuring Happiness and chapter 4 Accepted measures of happiness |
| Literature | Bibliography of Happiness: Subject section Measures of happiness >> Measures of overall happiness |
| Collections | Collection Measures of Happiness, select characteristics |
How happy are we?
| Key text | Diener, E. & Diener, C. ‘Most people are happy‘, Psychological Science, 1996, Vol. 7, 181 -185 |
| Literature | Bibliography of happiness: Subject section PREVALENCE OF HAPPINESS >> Are people typically positive about their life? |
| Collections | Collection Distributional Findings |
| Reports | Happiness in Nations: Rank Report on Average Happiness |
Do we get happier?
| Key text | Ruut Veenhoven, Is life getting better? How long and happy do people live in modern society? |
| Literature | Bibliography of happiness: Subject section PREVALENCE OF HAPPINESS >> Change in happiness over time |
| Collections | Collection Distributional Findings |
| Reports | Happiness in Nations: Trend Report on Average Happiness |
In what conditions are we most happy?
| Key text | Ruut Veenhoven: What we know about happiness |
| Literature | Bibliography of Happiness: Subject subject section CORRELATES OF HAPPINESS |
| Collections | Collection Correlational Findings |
What are the consequences of enjoying life or not?
| Key text | Lyubomirsky, S. et. al. The benefits of Frequent Positive Affect, Psychological Bulletin, 2005, Vol. 131, 803 – 855 |
| Literature | Bibliography of Happiness: Subject section Consequences of happiness |
| Collections | Collection Correlational Findings Each subject category starts with a section on ‘development’ and in that section you will always find a subsection called ‘Later’. For example in the subject category ‘Coping’ contains a sub-category ‘Later coping’ with findings on the relation between earlier happiness and later coping. In this collection you can also select findings observed in follow-up of the same persons over time, i.e. longitudinal. |