Metrics of subjective well-being : limits and improvements /: limits and improvements. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gaël Brulé, Filomena Maggino, editors.
• Editors: Brulé, Gaël; Maggino, Filomena
• Contents: Towards more complexity in subjective well-being studies / Gaël Brulé and Filomena Maggino -- Can good life be measured? The dimensions and measurability of a life worth living / Frank Martela -- The Subjective object of well-being studies : well-being as the experience of being well / Mariano Rojas -- Measures of happiness : which to choose? / Ruut Veenhoven -- Explaining the decline in subjective well-being over time in panel data / Katia Iglesias, Pascale Gazareth and Christian Suter -- Reducing current limitations in order to enhance the quality of subjective well-being research : the example of mindfulness / Rebecca Shankland, Ilios Kotsou, Caroline Cuny, Lionel Strub, and Nicholas J.L. Brown -- Measuring indecision in happiness studies / Stefania Capecchi -- Evaluating comparability of survey data on subjective well-being / Ingebjørg Kristoffersen -- Label scale and rating scale in subjective well-being measurement / Ester Macri -- Culture and well-being : a research agenda designed to improve cross-cultural research involving the life satisfaction construct / Dong-Jin Lee, Grace B. Yu and Joseph Sirgy -- Objective and subjective indices of well-being : resolving the Easterlin Happiness-Income Paradox / Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb and Emma Zang -- Methods to increase the comparability in cross-national surveys, highlight on the scale interval method and the reference distribution method / Tineke de Jonge.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 264 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306; Well-being; Quality of life; Social indicators; Happiness; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319618104; 3319618105
• Related ISBNs: 9783319618098; 3319618091
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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