Main subjects Bibliography
STUDY of HAPPINESS | |
Description | Number of Publications |
0 | |
Development of happiness research | 42 |
Early philosophy of happiness | 4 |
Prominence of happiness as a research topic | 19 |
Happiness in anthropology | 8 |
Happiness in architecture | 1 |
Happiness in economics | 11 |
Happiness in geography | 1 |
Happiness in gerontology | 1 |
Happiness in hisotory | 0 |
Happiness in philosophy | 2 |
Happiness in psychology | 1 |
Happiness in sociology | 8 |
Happiness in urban studies | 3 |
Pioneers in the study of happiness | 16 |
Problems in the study of happiness | 5 |
Questions and approaches | 14 |
Relevance | 44 |
Reviews of the literature on happiness | 235 |
Bibliographies | 15 |
Research infrastructure for happiness | 1 |
Findings archive | 14 |
Data sets | 14 |
Research organizations involved with happiness | 1 |
CONCEPT of HAPPINESS | |
Description | Number of Publications |
23 | |
Problems of conceptualizing happiness | 8 |
Meanings of the word happiness | 27 |
Meanings in common language | 53 |
Meanings in scientific language | 88 |
Definition of happiness used in this Bibliography and hence in this World Database of Happiness | 18 |
Aspects of happiness | 14 |
Components of happiness | 79 |
Affective component: Hedonic Level | 1 |
Cognitive component: Contentment | 1 |
Do people see the difference? | 2 |
Variable aspects of happiness | 9 |
Appropriateness | 3 |
Certainty | 0 |
Stability | 1 |
Practicality of this concept | 0 |
Do people evaluate their life? | 7 |
Do people have an idea of happiness? | 6 |
Certainty of happiness | 0 |
Stability of happiness | 100 |
How permanent are happiness judgments? | 112 |
In what conditions the most stable? | 26 |
Is stability better than instability? | 3 |
Divergence in components of happiness | 4 |
Difference with wider notions of wellbeing | 81 |
MEASUREMENT of HAPPINESS | |
Description | Number of Publications |
14 | |
Reviews of literature on measurement of happiness | 21 |
Reviews of measures used in particular populations (place, time, people) | 6 |
Measurability of happiness | 47 |
Validity of happiness measurements | 42 |
Validity doubts | 2 |
Do people distinguish between happiness and related matters? | 2 |
Do people distinguish between variants of happiness? | 1 |
Do people know their true happiness? | 9 |
Do people respond to questions about happiness | 3 |
Do people report honestly about their happiness? | 38 |
How do people interpret questions on happiness? | 1 |
Is happiness sufficiently stable? | 4 |
Can happiness indicators be validated? | 10 |
Reliability of happiness measurements | 38 |
Sources of bias | 1 |
Anonymity | 1 |
Classification bias | 1 |
Contextual bias | 35 |
Conversational bias | 3 |
Day of the week | 12 |
Effects of follow-up interviews | 3 |
Effect of weather during interview | 13 |
Interviewer bias | 6 |
Method effects | 35 |
Mood state bias | 4 |
Response shift | 3 |
Response style bias | 15 |
Retrospective bias | 6 |
Correction of bias | 10 |
Comparability of happiness measurements | 13 |
Comparability across measures | 6 |
Techniques for improving comparability | 21 |
Comparison across populations | 3 |
Comparison across nations/languages | 113 |
Comparison across persons | 13 |
Comparison over time | 5 |
Comparison across social categories | 2 |
Measurement problems | 7 |
Cardinal treatment of ordinal measurement | 4 |
Scalability | 7 |
Single questions | 5 |
Representativeness | 2 |
Selectivity in non-response to questions about happiness | 5 |
Selectivity in panel drop-out | 1 |
Imputation of missing cases | 1 |
Response behavior | 3 |
Answer time | 1 |
Vulnerability for focal value choice | 0 |
Comprehensibility for children | 1 |
Measures of overall happiness | 27 |
Self-report on direct questions | 19 |
Closed questions | 24 |
Content of questions | 6 |
Rating scales | 32 |
Repeated questions | 1 |
Time frame of questions | 4 |
Order of questions | 1 |
Open questions | 5 |
Life chart | 7 |
Focused interview | 5 |
Sentence completion | 0 |
Self report on indirect questioning | 10 |
Enjoyed activities | 3 |
Memory balance | 1 |
Projective measures | 9 |
Semantic differential scales | 2 |
Pictorial scales | 1 |
Summed satisfaction with life aspects | 72 |
Content-analysis of ego-documents | 2 |
positive/negative ratio in Tweets | 1 |
Rating by others | 32 |
Measures of hedonic level | 19 |
Self report on direct questions | 0 |
Questions on how one generally feels | 8 |
Repeated questions on mood of the moment | 39 |
Self report on indirect questions | 1 |
Average of specific affects | 3 |
Balance of positive and negative affect | 59 |
Projective indicators | 3 |
Time happy/unhappy | 2 |
Rating by others | 52 |
Rating of mood from face/voice | 10 |
Rating of mood from word use | 3 |
Inference on the basis of observed behavior | 1 |
Inference on the basis of biomarkers | 0 |
Indicators of hedonic level in animals | 3 |
Measures of contentment | 4 |
Self report | 0 |
Self report on direct question | 6 |
Self report on indirect questions | 7 |
Rating by others | 6 |
Mixed measures of happiness | 19 |
Self report | 0 |
Single direct questions | 3 |
Multiple direct questions | 27 |
Focused interview | 1 |
Self report on indirect questions | 4 |
Rating by others | 15 |
Observation techniques | 1 |
Correspondence of happiness ratings | 25 |
Affect-contentment configuration | 23 |
Affect- overall correlation | 2 |
ESM/global correspondence | 1 |
ESM/DRM correspondence | 1 |
Factor structure of happiness inventories | 113 |
Happiness-Life Satisfaction correspondence | 1 |
Intercorrelations between happiness indicators | 175 |
Aggregate measures of happiness in collectivities | 6 |
Average happiness | 2 |
Inequality in happiness | 24 |
Inequality-adjusted happiness | 8 |
Happiness of the least happy | 1 |
Combinations with other variables to denote wellbeing | 5 |
Happy Life Years | 35 |
HLY+ variants | 2 |
Stability of happiness | 0 |
Thriving/suffering | 1 |
Time unhappy | 2 |
Indicators of public mood in ' Big Data' | 15 |
Hedonic tone in public communications | 16 |
Topics of interest in media and internet searches | 1 |
Inferred happiness, on basis of known conditions | 1 |
Measures of life appraisals other than happiness | 10 |
Multiple questions involving invalid ones | 24 |
Adjustment scales | 51 |
Adjustment to life in nursing home | 1 |
Health related quality-of-life | 64 |
Authentic Happiness Inventory | 1 |
Ikigai inventory | 0 |
Love of life | 1 |
Morale in old age | 46 |
Peace of mind | 1 |
Phenomenology of happiness | 30 |
Uses of happiness measures | 10 |
Measures of happiness RECODE | 0 |
MODES OF EMPIRICAL HAPPINESS RESEARCH | |
Description | Number of Publications |
0 | |
Methods used in happiness research (other than cross-sections) | 16 |
Cross national studies on happiness | 1947 |
Experimental studies on happiness | 519 |
Longitudinal studies on happiness | 497 |
Follow-up of individuals | 1346 |
Trend happiness in collectivities | 380 |
Meta-analysis | 96 |
Methods in meta-analysis of happiness research | 148 |
Delphi study | 3 |
Multi-moment assessment of happiness | 87 |
Experience sampling (ESM) | 133 |
Day reconstruction moment (DRM) | 70 |
Qualitative studies on happiness | 171 |
Statistical analysis | 5 |
Instrumental variable analysis | 10 |
Mendelian randomization | 1 |
Multi-level studies on happiness | 104 |
People investigated: some much studied populations | 4 |
Happiness in age-groups | 12 |
In children | 64 |
Infants | 32 |
Pre-school children | 11 |
Basic school children | 131 |
High school pupils, adolescents | 626 |
Children with disabilities | 4 |
In young adults | 85 |
In middle aged people | 44 |
In elderly people | 1468 |
Happiness in care givers | 40 |
Happiness in consumers | 0 |
Social media users | 1 |
Happiness in deviants | 1 |
Criminals | 1 |
Happiness in disadvantaged | 6 |
Homeless | 2 |
Happiness in high performers | 0 |
High IQ | 2 |
Inventors | 1 |
Top sporter | 6 |
Happiness in minorities | 5 |
Happiness in ethnic minorities | 130 |
Happiness in migrants | 216 |
Happiness in sexual minorities | 51 |
Asexuals | 1 |
Bi-Bisexuals | 8 |
Homo-Homosexuals | 36 |
Trans-genders | 30 |
Happiness in non-modern people | 51 |
Happiness of parents | 4 |
Parent of handicapped child | 1 |
Happiness in patients | 43 |
Handicapped | 13 |
Medical patients | 238 |
Mental patients | 107 |
Addicts | 7 |
Autists | 2 |
Demented | 1 |
Depressives | 12 |
Retarded | 4 |
Schizophrenics | 2 |
Nursing home residents | 11 |
Happiness in very rich or poor people | 4 |
Happiness in students | 869 |
Happiness in twins | 52 |
Happiness in unemployed people | 227 |
Happiness in working people | 34 |
Academics | 4 |
Entrepreneurs | 4 |
Farmers | 3 |
Teachers | 12 |
Health care professionals | 10 |
Volunteers | 1 |
Sex workers | 2 |
Happiness in retirees | 122 |
Happiness in tourists | 0 |
Happiness in war veterans | 0 |
Happiness in widows | 1 |
Topics of research | 2 |
Allocation efficiency; difference in happiness of people with random preference pattern | 2 |
Environmental efficiency of wellbeing | 2 |
Financial equivalence | 90 |
Unexplained component in prices | 1 |
Happiness in history | 17 |
Inequality of happiness | 82 |
Mediators | 98 |
Moderators | 160 |
CIT analysis | 1 |
Similarity in happiness | 1 |
Shape of relationship | 6 |
Shape happiness itself, difference on happy/unhappy people | 4 |
Shape relationship with correlate of happiness | 28 |
PREVALENCE of HAPPINESS | |
Description | Number of Publications |
4 | |
Are people typically positive about their life? | 32 |
Level of happiness | 5 |
Happiness level in places | 1 |
Happiness level in the world as a whole | 13 |
Happiness levels in parts of the world | 68 |
Happiness levels in nations | 707 |
Stability of nation ranking | 2 |
Happiness levels in regions | 173 |
Happiness level in cities | 72 |
Happiness level in quarters in cities | 6 |
Happiness level in rural villages | 3 |
In publics in nations | 18 |
Happiness in age groups in nations | 4 |
Happiness of children in nations | 15 |
Happiness of adolescents in nations | 24 |
Happiness in young adults in nations | 0 |
Happiness of working aged people in nations | 10 |
Happiness of elderly in nations | 20 |
Happiness of ethnic groups in nations | 14 |
Happiness of males/females in nations | 9 |
Happiness of students in nations | 6 |
Most/least happy types in nations | 1 |
Happiness in social contexts in nations | 0 |
Happiness in households | 0 |
Happiness in institutions | 0 |
Happiness in schools | 0 |
Happiness in workplaces | 0 |
Happy Life Years | 18 |
Happy life years in places | 4 |
Happy life years in publics | 1 |
Happy life years over time | 2 |
Change in happiness over time | 8 |
Trend of average happiness in places | 26 |
Trend in parts of the world | 3 |
Trend in national happiness | 523 |
Trend in regional happiness | 56 |
Trend happiness in cities | 15 |
Trend average happiness in publics | 26 |
Trend happiness in males and females | 16 |
Trend happiness in age groups | 31 |
Trend happiness among unemployed | 4 |
Trend happiness in ethnic groups | 13 |
Trend in marital categories | 6 |
Trend happiness among parents | 1 |
Trend in socio-economic strata | 14 |
Trend in rural setting | 2 |
Trend among working people | 2 |
Trend in conditions for happiness | 29 |
Trend inequality in happiness | 10 |
Trend inequality in happiness across nations | 3 |
Trend inequality of happiness within nations | 17 |
Trend difference in inequality within nations across nations | 3 |
Trend inequality of happiness in publics | 7 |
Trend inequality (happiness gap) across income groups | 1 |
Happiness in historical times | 5 |
Inequality of happiness | 0 |
Inequality of happiness in parts of the world | 2 |
Inequality of happiness in places | 0 |
Inequality of happiness in nations | 12 |
Inequality of happiness in regions | 7 |
Inequality of happiness in publics | 4 |
CORRELATES OF HAPPINESS | |
Description | Number of Publications |
0 | |
Situational correlates of happiness | 0 |
Physical environment | 3 |
Natural environment | 11 |
Climate/Season | 41 |
Humidity | 1 |
Summer/winter time | 3 |
Temperature | 2 |
Weather | 2 |
Variability of weather conditions | 1 |
Nature | 21 |
Indoor green | 1 |
Scenic beauty | 6 |
Urban green | 12 |
Pollution | 46 |
Sustainability | 6 |
Built environment | 18 |
Housing | 14 |
Architecture | 3 |
Home amenities | 1 |
Urbanity | 17 |
Compactness | 2 |
Size of the town | 22 |
urban growth/shrink | 1 |
Sub-urban | 4 |
Urban/rural | 84 |
Remoteness | 3 |
Societal context: | 0 |
National setting | 81 |
Conditions for happiness in nations: how universal? | 18 |
Differences in conditions for happiness | 94 |
Outer conditions | 15 |
Inner conditions | 17 |
Differences in ways of evaluating life | 23 |
History of nation | 0 |
Nation characteristics | 3 |
Cohesion in nation | 34 |
Civic organization | 4 |
Charity | 4 |
Common events | 2 |
Conflict | 5 |
Homogeneity | 6 |
Minority problems | 1 |
Nationalism | 3 |
Trust | 42 |
Culture in the nation | 61 |
Attitudes in nation | 1 |
Alienation in nation | 4 |
Attitude to happiness in nation | 1 |
Fear of happiness in nation | 0 |
Preference for happiness in nation | 1 |
Attitude to immigrants in nation | 3 |
Attitude to sexuality in nation | 2 |
Pessimism in nation | 4 |
Concerns in nation | 0 |
Cultural diversity in nation | 4 |
Individualism/collectivism in nation | 47 |
Meaning in nation | 1 |
Morality in nation | 4 |
Religiousness in nation | 31 |
Values in nation | 24 |
Valuation of autonomy in nation | 6 |
Valuation of competitiveness in nation | 1 |
Valuation of family in nation | 1 |
Valuation of pleasure in nation. Moral hedonism | 9 |
Valuation of long-term in nation | 1 |
Valuation of materialism in nation | 4 |
Valuation of work in nation | 2 |
Demography in the nation | 3 |
Age composition in nation | 0 |
Birth pattern in nation | 7 |
Birth control in nation | 2 |
E/immigration in/out nation | 6 |
Genetic composition/distance | 4 |
Life expectancy in nation | 0 |
Population density in nation | 0 |
Ethnic diversity in nation | 0 |
Sex balance in nation | 0 |
Economy in the nation | 62 |
Affluence in nation | 173 |
Consumption in nation | 1 |
Economic competitiveness of nation | 1 |
Advertising in nation | 3 |
Innovation in nation | 2 |
Economic growth/decline in nation | 185 |
Change average household income in nation | 1 |
Change consumer confidence in nation | 3 |
Change exports of nation | 0 |
Change stock market prices in nation | 5 |
Economic Stability in nation | 1 |
Economic Regime (Capitalism) in nation | 16 |
Entrepreneurial climate in nation | 3 |
Equivalent income in nation | 0 |
Export by nation | 1 |
Inflation in nation | 17 |
Openness of economy in nation | 3 |
Price level in nation | 1 |
Sustainability of the economic system in nation | 5 |
Extraction industry in nation | 2 |
Pollution in nation | 4 |
Sustainable energy in nation | 1 |
Tax regime in nation | 8 |
Tax compliance in nation | 1 |
Trade unions in nation | 4 |
Unemployment rate in nation | 43 |
Working conditions in nation | 0 |
Job protection in nation | 9 |
Labor market regulation | 2 |
Retirement age in nation | 3 |
Self-employment in nation | 3 |
Work hours in nation | 8 |
Geography in nation | 0 |
Environmental quality | 3 |
Natural resources | 1 |
Inequality in the nation | 7 |
Inequality of happiness in nation | 26 |
Differences across nations | 9 |
Trends over time | 10 |
Inequality in health in nation | 0 |
inequality of opportunities in nation | 4 |
Inequality of incomes in nation | 97 |
visibility of income differences in nation | 1 |
Inequality between sexes (women emancipation) in nation | 25 |
Inequality in social prestige in nation | 12 |
Social mobility in nation | 0 |
Power distance in nation | 1 |
Freedom in the nation | 13 |
Economic freedom in nation | 23 |
Political freedom in nation | 15 |
Private freedom in nation | 10 |
Compulsory service in nation | 1 |
Genes in nation in nation | 1 |
Government in nation | 9 |
Centralization in nation | 6 |
Corruption in nation | 13 |
Quality of government in nation | 27 |
Size of government in nation | 26 |
Knowledge in nation | 2 |
Education in nation | 13 |
IQ in nation | 11 |
Life-style in the nation | 1 |
Art of living in nations | 1 |
Consumption in nation | 3 |
Alcohol use in nation | 1 |
Smoking in nation | 3 |
Pace of life in nation | 3 |
Sporting in nation | 2 |
Livability of nation | 12 |
Apparent livability | 0 |
Anthropometric indicators of human thriving in nation | 0 |
Mental health in nation | 9 |
Depression in nation | 1 |
Use of anti-depressives in nation | 3 |
Physical health in nation | 5 |
lllness in nation | 0 |
COVID-19 in nation | 0 |
Obesity in nation | 0 |
Pain in nation | 0 |
Public mood in nation | 1 |
Time spend in unpleasant activities in nation | 1 |
Suicide rate in nation | 9 |
Assumed livability of nation | 0 |
Law in the nation | 1 |
Legal system in nation | 1 |
Property rights in nation | 3 |
Rule of law in nation | 5 |
Modernity of the nation | 104 |
Automobile use in nation | 1 |
Internet penetration in nation | 6 |
Urbanization in nation | 2 |
Nature in nation | 2 |
Personality in nation | 15 |
Competitiveness in nation | 4 |
Conformism in nation | 1 |
Empathy in nation | 1 |
Openness in nation | 2 |
Tightness in nation | 4 |
Politics in the nation | 22 |
Democracy in nation | 29 |
Political change in nation | 2 |
Ruling ideology/party in nation | 1 |
Unrest in nation | 3 |
Position of the nation | 8 |
External threats to nation | 12 |
Involvement in war of nation | 5 |
Success in war of nation | 0 |
Comparative quality-of-life in nation | 4 |
QOL in neighboring countries | 3 |
Foreign aid by nation | 3 |
Involvement in global society of nation | 8 |
EU membership of nation | 2 |
Reputation of country of origin | 2 |
Relative wealth of nation | 3 |
Tourist visits to nation | 1 |
Public goods in the nation | 6 |
Child-care in nation | 5 |
Maternity leave in nation | 2 |
Mental health care in nation | 1 |
Pension system in nation | 5 |
Social security in nation | 74 |
Relational patterns in nation | 26 |
Divorce rate in nation | 2 |
Family values in nation | 3 |
Households in nation | 0 |
Public life in nation | 1 |
Sex life in nation | 2 |
Acceptance of homo-sex in nation | 3 |
Safety in the nation | 7 |
Crime rate in nation | 2 |
Disasters in nation | 1 |
Hunger in nation | 1 |
Size of the nation | 4 |
Time regime in nation | 1 |
Social change in nation | 53 |
Social progress in nation | 8 |
Summed macro societal conditions | 22 |
Kinds of effect | 1 |
Latin-American pattern | 4 |
Macro level models | 1 |
Size of societal differences in happiness | 2 |
Regional setting | 42 |
Cohesion in region | 0 |
Ethnic diversity in region | 1 |
Immigrants in region | 0 |
Social capital in region | 3 |
Culture in region | 0 |
Attitudes in region | 0 |
Attitudes to parenthood | 1 |
Attitudes to sexuality | 1 |
Education in region | 0 |
Religiousness in region | 2 |
Demography in region | 1 |
Marriage in region | 1 |
Immigrants in region | 2 |
Population density in region | 1 |
Economy in the region | 5 |
Economic freedom in region | 1 |
Economic growth/decline in region | 9 |
Economic innovation in region | 4 |
Economic prosperity in region | 7 |
Extraction industry in region | 2 |
Income difference in region | 12 |
Economic investment in region | 2 |
Poverty in region | 3 |
Price level in region | 1 |
Mass-production in region | 0 |
Tourism in region | 4 |
Unemployment rate in region | 12 |
Environment in the region | 6 |
Eco-energy in region | 1 |
Government in region | 1 |
Decentralization in region | 1 |
Institutional quality in region | 2 |
History of region | 1 |
Livability of region | 0 |
Happiness in region | 1 |
Health in region | 0 |
Obesity in region | 1 |
Suicide rate in region | 0 |
Personality in region | 2 |
Politics in region | 0 |
Democracy in region | 6 |
Public goods in region | 2 |
Amenities in region | 2 |
Expense on education in region | 1 |
Social security in region | 2 |
Relational pattern in region | 0 |
Safety in region | 0 |
Crime rate in region | 8 |
Regional difference in correlates of happiness | 5 |
Local setting | 43 |
Demography in vicinity | 2 |
Age-composition in vicinity | 1 |
Migration in vicinity | 0 |
Emigration out of vicinity | 1 |
Immigration in vicinity | 3 |
Economy in vicinity | 2 |
Economic growth/decline in vicinity | 3 |
Industry in vicinity | 0 |
Renewable energy plants in vicinity | 2 |
Social enterprises in vicinity | 0 |
Tourism in vicinity | 9 |
Openness of economy in vicinity | 1 |
Economic prosperity in vicinity | 25 |
Standard of living in vicinity | 1 |
Unemployment in vicinity | 5 |
Amenities in vicinity | 27 |
Health care in vicinity | 1 |
Water supply in vicinity | 4 |
Transport in vicinity | 10 |
Traffic jams in vicinity | 2 |
Distance to local facilities | 2 |
Political situation in vicinity | 0 |
Local democracy | 0 |
Health in vicinity | 1 |
Societal situation in vicinity | 0 |
Income difference in vicinity | 23 |
Segregation in vicinity | 4 |
Social problems in vicinity | 15 |
Noise in vicinity | 1 |
Crime in vicinity | 6 |
Social ties in vicinity | 9 |
Neighborhood correlates of happiness | 78 |
Ethnic homogeneity in neighborhood | 2 |
Happiness of other people in neighborhood | 2 |
Income in neighborhood | 1 |
Individual circumstances | 1 |
Social status of more and less happy people | 75 |
Gender | 191 |
Inter sex | 1 |
Transgender | 14 |
Age | 245 |
Ageing | 151 |
Chronological age | 62 |
Young-old difference in happiness | 3 |
Stage of life | 17 |
Minority status | 48 |
Ethnicity | 145 |
Homeless | 2 |
Migrants | 167 |
Expats | 4 |
Sexual orientation | 5 |
Homosexuals | 32 |
Transsexuals | 28 |
Integration of minorities | 3 |
Income/poverty/wealth | 554 |
Level of income | 18 |
Perceived relative income | 8 |
Liquidity | 1 |
Source of income | 3 |
Pensions, savings | 3 |
Private transfers | 2 |
Migrant remittances | 2 |
Social security | 9 |
Work | 0 |
Wealth | 5 |
Assets | 18 |
Debts | 20 |
Net wealth | 14 |
Very rich | 0 |
Energy Poverty | 1 |
Education | 148 |
Elite education | 0 |
Over-education | 1 |
Occupational prestige | 10 |
Social rank | 29 |
Own rank adults | 11 |
Actual rank | 30 |
Rank mobility | 32 |
Rank consistence | 4 |
Rank of family of origin | 2 |
Of adults | 0 |
Of children | 2 |
Happiness and social roles | 26 |
Gender roles | 63 |
Androgynous | 0 |
Gender identity | 2 |
Main breadwinner | 1 |
Leadership | 6 |
Role discrepancies | 12 |
Summed multiple socio-demographic characteristics | 63 |
Institutional environment | 0 |
School environment | 0 |
School characteristics | 17 |
School-home difference | 1 |
School type | 10 |
Work conditions | 151 |
Bridge job | 1 |
Flex-work | 17 |
Formal/informal employment | 4 |
Job security | 15 |
Part time work | 31 |
Pay | 1 |
Organization | 4 |
Communication in organization | 1 |
Self employed | 47 |
Shift work | 1 |
Subsidized work | 0 |
Support at work | 1 |
Telework | 6 |
Work schedule flexibility | 7 |
Intimate environment | 31 |
Joint effects | 27 |
Theories about happiness and intimate ties | 35 |
Network characteristics | 11 |
Happiness and Children | 10 |
Having children | 111 |
Adoption of child | 0 |
Birth of children | 36 |
Pregnancy | 5 |
Childlessness | 50 |
Number of children | 18 |
Kind of children | 1 |
Adopted children | 0 |
Adult children | 2 |
Foster-children | 6 |
Grand-children | 6 |
Step-children | 3 |
Leaving home of children | 18 |
Planning of children | 0 |
unplanned child | 1 |
use of contraception | 0 |
Contacts with children | 30 |
Contact of adult children with parents | 3 |
Custody of divorced parents | 1 |
Frequency of contact | 2 |
Quality of contact | 12 |
Characteristics of children | 19 |
Age of children | 3 |
Distance to adult children | 1 |
Family situation of children | 33 |
Handicapped child | 1 |
Wellbeing of children | 22 |
Happiness and Family | 11 |
Characteristics of kin | 1 |
Loss of an intimate | 1 |
Single parent | 9 |
Relations with kids | 7 |
Happiness and Household | 7 |
Living alone or not | 8 |
Family household | 13 |
Nuclear household | 0 |
One parent family | 9 |
Extended family household | 9 |
Non-family household | 1 |
Communal households | 3 |
Institutional living | 91 |
Cloister | 1 |
Hospice | 1 |
Jail | 4 |
Nursing home | 6 |
Orphanage | 2 |
Shelter | 1 |
Child care | 1 |
Household size | 3 |
Homeless | 6 |
Happiness and Love Life | 14 |
Attachment | 3 |
Love styles | 6 |
Sex life | 64 |
Violence | 1 |
Happiness and Marriage | 32 |
Marital status | 130 |
Currently married (vs. all unmarried) | 37 |
Cohabit | 12 |
Living apart together (LAT) | 2 |
Formerly married | 0 |
Separation/divorce | 61 |
Widowhood | 40 |
Remarriage | 10 |
Single | 3 |
Lifelong singles | 15 |
Young singles | 1 |
Happiness and kind of marriage | 6 |
Attitudes to spouse | 2 |
Characteristics of the bond | 51 |
Family life cycle | 12 |
Shared household work | 2 |
Characteristics of the spouse | 77 |
Income of spouse | 0 |
Unemployment of spouse | 4 |
Well-being of spouse | 6 |
Similarity in ethnicity with spouse | 1 |
Similarity in personality with spouse | 2 |
Similarity in wellbeing of spouses | 3 |
Polygamy | 5 |
Working wife/mother | 36 |
Happiness and Social Support | 111 |
Effects of social support | 47 |
On happiness | 104 |
Balance of support | 2 |
Loss of social support | 2 |
Migration of intimates | 12 |
Intimates left in home country | 2 |
On further indicators of well-being | 12 |
Care givers | 51 |
Home care | 2 |
Sources of social support | 0 |
Support by community | 1 |
Support by spouse | 1 |
Happiness and Pets | 7 |
Happiness and non-family intimate ties | 0 |
Relation with colleagues | 1 |
Relation with friends | 5 |
Relation with teachers | 1 |
Happiness and happiness of other people | 1 |
Occurrences | 0 |
Recent life-events | 159 |
Collective events | 4 |
Disaster | 45 |
COVID-19 | 21 |
Economic events | 11 |
Festivities | 11 |
Political events | 18 |
Sport events | 3 |
Time change | 1 |
War | 20 |
Terrorist attack | 9 |
Individual life events | 12 |
Minor daily event | 35 |
Disturbing interruptions | 2 |
Time pressure | 5 |
Uplifts | 5 |
Major life events | 116 |
Abortion | 2 |
Accident | 14 |
Bereavement | 20 |
Church drop-out | 1 |
Divorce | 17 |
Expropriation | 2 |
Financial good/bad luck | 7 |
Lottery winning | 15 |
Marriage | 3 |
Medical treatment | 23 |
Hospitalization | 10 |
Treatments | 133 |
Medication | 3 |
Rehabilitation | 4 |
Sex-reassignment | 19 |
Transplantation | 9 |
Job change | 16 |
First job | 2 |
Job loss | 6 |
Psychological treatment | 124 |
Anti-depressive drugs | 11 |
Reminiscence therapy | 3 |
Migration | 5 |
Migration to other country | 36 |
Move (change house within country) | 26 |
Military service | 2 |
Retirement | 26 |
School drop-out | 4 |
School leave | 1 |
Sex reassignment | 16 |
Victimization | 3 |
Victim of bullying | 20 |
Victim of domestic violence | 4 |
Victim of crime | 26 |
Victim of discrimination | 1 |
Victim of war | 3 |
Experiences | 4 |
Desired experience | 2 |
Extra-ordinary states of consciousness | 5 |
Moving experiences | 7 |
Stress of events | 10 |
Reminiscence of events | 2 |
Ritual marking of life change | 1 |
Predictability of life events | 4 |
Life-history | 9 |
Birth history | 2 |
Happiness and Earlier Living Conditions | 13 |
Pre-natal conditions | 0 |
Medication of mother during pregnancy | 1 |
Conditions in childhood | 49 |
Intimate environment in childhood | 87 |
Alcohol consumption of parents | 1 |
Birth order | 1 |
Family crisis | 2 |
Foster child | 2 |
Happiness of parents | 7 |
Hardship in family | 0 |
Lived in an institution | 2 |
Mental health state of parents | 1 |
Number of siblings | 2 |
Only child | 1 |
Parenting style | 6 |
Participation in family | 0 |
Single parent family | 4 |
Violence in family | 3 |
School environment in childhood | 1 |
Social status in childhood | 20 |
Unemployment of parent | 3 |
Wealth/poverty of parents | 7 |
Society in childhood | 3 |
Country of origin | 2 |
Economic recession in childhood | 1 |
Social change in childhood | 1 |
Stress in childhood | 3 |
Physical characteristics in childhood | 1 |
Conditions in adulthood | 3 |
Intimate network | 21 |
Social status | 6 |
Society | 0 |
Work | 6 |
Reasons for earlier retirement( or not) | 1 |
Earlier intimate environment | 6 |
Happiness and Life Course | 48 |
Income history | 0 |
Income change | 2 |
Military service | 1 |
School history | 1 |
Happiness and Earlier Personal Characteristics | 8 |
Earlier appreciations | 1 |
Earlier health | 8 |
Earlier intelligence | 5 |
Earlier life style | 4 |
Earlier mental effectiveness | 2 |
Earlier personality | 11 |
Earlier physical activity | 1 |
Earlier preferences | 1 |
Earlier values | 3 |
Happiness and Life change/event | 61 |
earlier goal change | 1 |
Happiness and Life Review | 15 |
Life regrets | 5 |
Life suffering | 2 |
Personal correlates of happiness | 0 |
Physical characteristics | 0 |
Physical characteristics | 24 |
Allostatic load | 1 |
Androgens | 1 |
Appearance | 15 |
Blood pressure | 8 |
Bone density | 2 |
Brain | 1 |
Brain volumes | 1 |
left/right hemisphere asymmetry | 2 |
Genes | 11 |
Glucose regulation | 1 |
Heart rate | 4 |
Immune function | 2 |
Height | 11 |
Hormone levels | 2 |
Cortisol level | 5 |
Menstruation | 3 |
Menopause | 6 |
Skin color | 1 |
Strength | 4 |
Vagal tone | 4 |
Voice | 0 |
Weight | 43 |
Physical health | 76 |
General health | 26 |
Frailty | 1 |
Self-perceived health | 118 |
Physician-rated health | 8 |
Non-western notions of health | 1 |
Ayurveda Prakrit health rating | 1 |
Health complaints | 5 |
Fatigue | 2 |
Itch | 0 |
Nausea | 0 |
Pain | 16 |
Sleepless | 2 |
Particular disease | 39 |
Infectious and parasitic diseases | 1 |
Aids | 22 |
COVID-19 | 1 |
Neoplasms (Cancer) | 31 |
Breast cancer | 13 |
Oral cancer | 1 |
Prostate cancer | 1 |
Diseases of blood, blood organs and certain immune mechanisms | 2 |
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | 28 |
Mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders | 11 |
Diseases of the nervous system | 52 |
Epilepsy | 0 |
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) | 4 |
Parkinson disease | 3 |
Tetraplegia | 15 |
Diseases of the eye and adnexa | 10 |
Diseases of the ear and mastoid process | 4 |
Diseases of the circulatory system | 40 |
Stroke | 18 |
Diseases of the respiratory system | 15 |
Diseases of the digestive system | 7 |
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue | 1 |
Psoriasis | 1 |
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue | 20 |
Locked-in syndrome (LIS) ICD10 code: G83.5 | 2 |
Fibromyalgia | 1 |
Rheumatism | 12 |
Diseases of the genitourinary system | 1 |
Renal failure | 9 |
Infertility | 6 |
Complication in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium | 0 |
Conditions originating from the perinatal period | 0 |
Congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities | 0 |
Down syndrome | 0 |
Trauma | 8 |
Symptoms and test results not classified elsewhere | 10 |
Sequela of illness and treatment | 13 |
Sexual disfunction | 2 |
Longevity | 87 |
Healthy life Years | 1 |
Physical handicaps | 155 |
Suicide/self-harm | 17 |
Dying | 30 |
Psychological characteristics | 0 |
Abilities | 6 |
Ability to function in daily life | 15 |
Acculturation | 2 |
Art of living | 41 |
Hedonic capacity | 11 |
Cognitive abilities | 45 |
Command of language | 3 |
IQ | 21 |
Gifted | 6 |
Retarded, demented | 7 |
Emotional intelligence | 63 |
Employability | 1 |
English proficiency | 1 |
Internet proficiency | 1 |
Social abilities | 19 |
Goals | 37 |
Having goals | 26 |
Having aspirations | 4 |
Having life goals | 14 |
Having a mission | 1 |
Development of goals | 2 |
Kind of goals | 18 |
Approach/avoidance | 5 |
Authenticity of goals | 15 |
Behavioral relevance | 4 |
Clarity of goals | 6 |
Commitment to goals | 1 |
Conventionality of aims | 0 |
Decisiveness about goals | 1 |
Difficulty of goals | 2 |
Diversity of goals | 2 |
Flexibility of goals | 5 |
Importance of goals | 2 |
Internal consistency of set | 4 |
Meaning of goals | 4 |
Realism of goals | 1 |
Time span of goals | 2 |
Object of goals | 59 |
Object of aspirations | 14 |
Educational aspirations | 1 |
Income aspirations | 1 |
Migration aspiration | 1 |
Object of life goals | 32 |
Want children | 2 |
Realization of goals | 38 |
Perceived realization | 38 |
Actual goal realization | 6 |
Goal adjustment | 4 |
Mental health | 35 |
Theories | 3 |
Mental defects: negative mental health | 62 |
General impairment score | 28 |
Specific mental defects | 36 |
Addiction (ICD code F10-F19) | 2 |
ADHD (ICD code F90-F98) | 2 |
Alexithymia | 1 |
Anhedonia (ICD code R45) | 1 |
Anxiety (ICD code F41) | 13 |
Autism (ICD ode F84) | 4 |
Burnout (ICD code Z73) | 10 |
Compulsive disorder (ICD code F42) | 2 |
Defensiveness | 3 |
Dementia (ICD code F01-02) | 4 |
Dependency | 2 |
Depression (ICD code F32-34) | 41 |
Eating disorder (ICD code F50) | 5 |
Forgetful | 2 |
Gender dysphoria (ICD code F64) | 3 |
Neuroticism (ICD code F60) | 15 |
Psychopathy (ICD code F60.2) | 2 |
Psycho-somatic defects (ICD code F45) | 4 |
Rumination (ICD code F42) | 4 |
Schizophrenia (ICD code F20) | 17 |
Stressed (ICD code Z-73) | 11 |
Post-Traumatic Stress disorder (PTS) ICD code 10, DSM code 5 | 2 |
Frail, vulnerable | 1 |
Mental strength: positive mental health | 50 |
Energy/Activity | 20 |
General effectiveness scores | 29 |
Psycho-social development | 18 |
Self-actualization | 12 |
Self-efficacy | 40 |
Self-direction | 8 |
Self-knowledge | 0 |
Specific strong points | 20 |
Appreciation of beauty and excellence | 0 |
Creativity | 13 |
Identity | 21 |
Perceived meaningfulness | 83 |
Pro-active | 3 |
Resilience | 16 |
Self-control | 5 |
Mood control | 17 |
Self-esteem | 94 |
Sense of coherence | 19 |
Spiritual wellbeing | 3 |
Stability | 1 |
Use of strengths | 2 |
Vitality | 7 |
Wisdom | 12 |
Zest | 0 |
Motivation | 16 |
Achievement motivation | 9 |
Envious | 1 |
Hedonic desires | 3 |
Intrinsic motivation | 7 |
Search for meaning | 3 |
Search for social status | 1 |
Social needs | 1 |
Personality | 198 |
Personality development | 6 |
Inborn dispositions | 1 |
Personality change | 1 |
Personality organization | 2 |
Complexity | 8 |
Consistency | 3 |
Configuration | 1 |
Personality traits | 213 |
Activity | 3 |
Flow Experience | 8 |
Aggression | 5 |
Alienation | 4 |
Altruism | 1 |
Anxiety | 5 |
Fear of failure | 3 |
Risk perception | 1 |
Authentic | 2 |
Attribution style | 1 |
Authoritarian | 2 |
Awareness | 2 |
Mindfulness | 21 |
Mood awareness | 22 |
Realism | 1 |
Self-reflection | 1 |
Cognitive style | 4 |
Conscientious | 2 |
Perfectionism | 6 |
Decisive | 2 |
Dominant | 1 |
Emotionality | 26 |
Mood variability | 5 |
Emotional expressiveness | 1 |
Emotional differentiation | 3 |
Mood control | 2 |
Acceptance of negative emotion | 1 |
Extraversion | 40 |
Humility | 1 |
Humorous | 17 |
Genuine | 1 |
Impulsive (vs inhibited) | 2 |
Individualism | 22 |
Involvement | 4 |
Maximizing | 4 |
Morality | 3 |
Morning/evening type | 2 |
Openness | 5 |
Self-disclosure | 10 |
Openness to experience | 2 |
Optimism/Positivity | 79 |
Negative emotion | 1 |
Nostalgia | 2 |
Perceived fate control | 149 |
Sense of power | 1 |
Perfectionism | 1 |
Persistence | 2 |
Pleasure seeking | 10 |
Regulatory focus | 0 |
Rigidity | 3 |
Risk orientation | 16 |
Sociability | 7 |
Attachment style | 10 |
Belonging, sense of | 3 |
Compassion | 2 |
Empathy | 2 |
Envious | 2 |
Forgiveness | 16 |
Gratitude | 43 |
Kindness | 8 |
Reciprocity | 1 |
Vengeance | 1 |
Sensation seeking | 3 |
Novelty seeking | 1 |
Superficial | 1 |
Time orientation | 43 |
Tolerant | 2 |
Coping style | 143 |
Coping with unhappiness | 5 |
Coping with conflict | 1 |
Rumination | 4 |
Self-concept | 102 |
Body image | 2 |
Discrepancy real-ideal self | 1 |
Group identification | 4 |
Narcissism | 4 |
Realism of self-image | 1 |
Self-compassion | 3 |
Self-congruency across situations | 2 |
Self-other-congruency in view on self | 1 |
Self-objectification | 0 |
Self-presentation | 4 |
Satisfactions | 39 |
Appraisals of life other than happiness | 9 |
Enjoyment | 1 |
Satisfaction with everything | 1 |
Satisfaction with aspects of life | 5 |
Satisfaction with opportunity for activities | 1 |
Satisfaction with domains of life | 176 |
Satisfaction with care | 5 |
Satisfaction with consumption | 7 |
Satisfaction with food | 3 |
Satisfaction with shopping | 2 |
Satisfaction with health | 6 |
Satisfaction with income | 22 |
Satisfaction with intimate relations | 65 |
Satisfaction with sex life | 2 |
Satisfaction with leisure | 23 |
Satisfaction with sports | 1 |
Satisfaction with tourism | 1 |
Satisfaction with living environment | 31 |
Satisfaction with oneself | 3 |
Satisfaction with one's appearance | 2 |
Satisfaction with safety | 4 |
Satisfaction with one's social position | 6 |
Satisfaction with school | 13 |
satisfaction with college/university life | 1 |
Satisfaction with society | 13 |
Satisfaction with public services | 1 |
Satisfaction with spiritual life | 7 |
Satisfaction with travel | 4 |
Satisfaction with work | 165 |
Structure of satisfactions | 0 |
Balance across domains | 3 |
Hierarchy of the correspondence with happiness: Which domain satisfactions correspond most with happiness? | 89 |
Summed domain satisfactions | 5 |
Weighted vs unweighted sum-scores | 13 |
Different weights | 1 |
Views | 2 |
Attitudes | 46 |
Attitudes to emotion | 1 |
Attitudes to freedom | 1 |
Perceived freedom | 4 |
Attitudes to the future | 2 |
Expected income | 4 |
Perceived improvement of one's life | 4 |
Hope | 67 |
Attitude to one's own happiness | 19 |
Fear of happiness | 2 |
Attitudes to life issues | 3 |
Attitudes to life in general | 0 |
Quality of life | 1 |
Attitudes to one's own life, other than happiness | 0 |
Meaning in life | 22 |
Death | 7 |
Richness of ones life | 0 |
Success in life | 1 |
Wish to live | 7 |
Attitudes to society | 7 |
Attitude to competition | 2 |
Attitudes to the economy | 5 |
Attitude to marketing | 1 |
Attitude to entitlements | 1 |
Attitude to environmental protection | 4 |
Attitudes to inequality | 11 |
Attitude to modernity | 8 |
Attitude to nation | 4 |
Attitude to cultural preservation | 1 |
Attitude to nation/culture of origin | 2 |
Attitude to country of settlement | 0 |
Attitude to own (return)migration | 2 |
Attitude to relative livability of nation | 1 |
Attitudes to political issues | 7 |
Attitude to democracy | 3 |
Trust in institutions | 11 |
Attitude to life-style issues | 1 |
Attitude to money | 1 |
Attitudes to nutrition | 0 |
Attitude to local environment | 7 |
Attitudes to community | 9 |
Attitude to local tourism | 1 |
Attitude to nature | 5 |
Attitude to nuclear power | 0 |
Attitudes to people | 0 |
Attitudes to women | 3 |
Trust in people | 41 |
Hero attachment | 1 |
Ethnocentrism | 2 |
Attitudes to safety | 4 |
Attitudes to school | 3 |
Attitudes to sexuality | 1 |
Attitudes to work | 7 |
Attitude to occupations | 1 |
Attitude to one's own occupation | 1 |
Conventionality of outlook | 13 |
Beliefs | 18 |
Belief in afterlife | 3 |
Belief in Free Will | 3 |
Beliefs about Happiness | 31 |
Perceived sources of happiness | 41 |
belief that possessions make happy | 2 |
Accuracy of perception of effect on happiness | 2 |
Perceived happiness of others | 3 |
Perceived relative happiness | 3 |
Perceived variability of happiness | 2 |
Belief in Just World | 15 |
Belief in hard work | 1 |
Beliefs about one-self | 0 |
Belief to be genetically determined | 1 |
Belief in social progress | 2 |
Belief in life as zero-sum game | 1 |
Perceived corruption in country | 3 |
Concerns | 0 |
Concern for next generations | 1 |
Interests | 1 |
Preferences | 0 |
Preference for time over money | 4 |
Preference to stop working | 0 |
Religion | 125 |
Religiousness | 200 |
Religious denomination | 19 |
Religious motivation | 3 |
Religious practices | 20 |
Values | 29 |
Ethical values | 67 |
Hedonic values | 33 |
Materialist values | 103 |
Individualism values | 4 |
Social values | 5 |
Family values | 2 |
Spending priorities | 2 |
Political values | 37 |
Political extremism | 9 |
Political conservatism | 15 |
Party preference | 11 |
Attitude to political issues | 4 |
Work values | 8 |
Value environment fit | 19 |
Living up to one's values | 8 |
Worries | 15 |
Problems | 2 |
Perceived discrimination | 11 |
Fear of COVID-19 | 0 |
Fear of crime | 6 |
Fear of modernity | 1 |
Summed mental capital | 6 |
Joint effects | 23 |
Apparent efficiency in using resources | 1 |
Effects of personal resources | 17 |
Effects of all personal characteristics | 3 |
Mixed multiple personal correlates of happiness | 1 |
Behavioral correlates of happiness | 12 |
Happiness and Activity level | 58 |
Creative behavior | 2 |
Leisure activity | 6 |
Mental activity | 1 |
Physical activity | 26 |
Happiness and Activity Pattern | 12 |
Change in activities | 0 |
Variation in activities | 1 |
Multitasking | 1 |
Happiness and Particular Activities | 4 |
Eating | 3 |
Happiness and Choice behavior | 6 |
Betting on an undesirable outcome | 1 |
Happiness and Consumption | 96 |
Degree | 6 |
Basic needs | 1 |
Experience/material consumption | 7 |
Food | 41 |
Gambling | 3 |
Ideological consumption | 1 |
Green consumption | 9 |
Contested consumption | 0 |
Luxury | 4 |
Conspicuous consumption | 2 |
News consumption | 1 |
Possessions | 16 |
Car | 11 |
Communication devices | 2 |
Internet access | 6 |
PC | 3 |
Telephone | 6 |
Household conveniences | 1 |
Housing | 31 |
Energy | 1 |
Weapon | 1 |
Savings/insurances | 23 |
Services | 3 |
Stimulants | 78 |
Alcohol | 15 |
Chocolate | 0 |
Coffee | 0 |
Drugs | 8 |
Tobacco | 10 |
Tax paying | 2 |
Happiness and Delay of Gratification | 0 |
Happiness and Health Behavior | 62 |
Healthy eating | 28 |
Sleep | 30 |
Self-harm | 1 |
Sufficient water intake | 1 |
Use of alternative medicine | 2 |
Use of health services | 1 |
Happiness and Leisure | 93 |
Leisure activities | 10 |
Artistic activities | 6 |
Gardening | 4 |
Media use | 9 |
Advertisement exposure | 4 |
Internet | 61 |
Search behavior | 1 |
Social media | 63 |
Internet addiction | 20 |
Music listening | 5 |
Reading | 6 |
TV watching | 45 |
Outdoor activities | 4 |
Attendance of cultural events | 7 |
Cinema | 1 |
Socializing | 3 |
Sporting | 146 |
Biking, walking | 0 |
Dancing | 0 |
Vacationing | 45 |
Holiday travel | 15 |
Wellness stay | 0 |
Engagement in new leisure activities | 2 |
Happiness and Life-Style-Type | 27 |
Global lifestyle | 0 |
Nudism | 1 |
Sustainable life-style | 1 |
Ways to pursue happiness | 19 |
Happiness and use of mental training/therapy | 2 |
Use of happiness training | 2 |
Meditation | 10 |
Tai Chi, Yoga | 1 |
Happiness and Organizational behavior | 0 |
Leadership | 3 |
Happiness and Political Behavior | 3 |
Political participation | 12 |
Union member | 1 |
Voting | 4 |
Happiness and Pro-social Behavior | 15 |
Civic behavior | 3 |
Deviant behavior | 18 |
Ecological behavior | 6 |
Giving | 31 |
Helping behavior | 4 |
Reciprocity | 2 |
Tax evasion | 2 |
Happiness and Risk behavior | 10 |
Happiness and Social Interaction | 0 |
sharing experiences | 1 |
Happiness and Social Participation | 88 |
Theories about effect of social involvement | 9 |
Participation with .. | 24 |
Friends | 72 |
Relatives | 25 |
Organizations | 20 |
Overall participation | 22 |
Participation of .. | 5 |
In age groups | 4 |
children | 4 |
Young adults | 2 |
Elderly | 160 |
Widowers | 4 |
Singles | 0 |
Handicapped | 6 |
Adolescents | 16 |
Unemployed | 1 |
Students | 13 |
Loneliness | 58 |
Weak ties | 3 |
Happiness and Study | 11 |
Being a student | 0 |
In compensatory education program | 1 |
School grade | 6 |
School involvement | 9 |
School success | 41 |
Teacher student relation | 1 |
Happiness and Time behavior | 64 |
Actual-ideal discrepancy | 0 |
Delaying | 1 |
Time spend on particular activities | 1 |
Time spend on childcare | 1 |
Happiness and Sexual behavior | 0 |
Use of paid sex | 0 |
Use of pornography | 1 |
Happiness and Travel behavior | 14 |
Commuting | 34 |
Cross border commuting | 1 |
Happiness and Work | 35 |
In workforce (vs not) | 1 |
Ability to work | 9 |
Having work | 61 |
Unemployed | 225 |
Retired | 111 |
Post retirement work | 1 |
Working (married) women | 98 |
Multiple jobs | 1 |
Underemployed | 3 |
Want for work | 11 |
Job searching | 5 |
Want more/less work | 2 |
Work involvement | 13 |
Absence from work | 2 |
Turnover | 8 |
Kind of work | 24 |
Occupation | 66 |
Creative class | 1 |
Entrepreneur | 7 |
Lawyer | 0 |
scientist | 0 |
Sex worker | 0 |
Sector | 3 |
Education | 0 |
Fair trade agriculture | 1 |
Public/private sector | 5 |
Skill level of work | 0 |
Over/under qualified for job | 1 |
Unpaid work | 0 |
Childcare | 0 |
Housework | 31 |
Voluntary work | 45 |
Work attitudes | 20 |
Work situation | 0 |
Work/family conflict | 54 |
Work performance | 22 |
Company performance | 1 |
Working time | 3 |
Weekend work | 1 |
Working hours | 41 |
Mixed multiple correlates of happiness | 5 |
Personal + situational | 0 |
Personal + behavioral | 0 |
Situational + behavioral | 1 |
DETERMINANTS OF HAPPINESS | |
Description | Number of Publications |
6 | |
Overview of explanations | 76 |
Determinants of hedonic level | 7 |
Overview of theories | 33 |
Need gratification theory | 29 |
Evidence for need theory | 2 |
Perceived fit theory (Cognitive theory of pleasant affect) | 4 |
Cultural behavior fit | 2 |
Self-environment fit | 12 |
Value-behavior fit | 1 |
Do positive and negative affects vary independently? | 67 |
Physiological basis of hedonic experience | 41 |
Neural mechanisms | 20 |
Are there temperamental differences in pleasure proneness? | 5 |
Human/animal similarities | 11 |
Genetic correlates | 11 |
Similarity with genetic basis of correlates of happiness | 2 |
Determinants of contentment | 18 |
Review of theories | 51 |
Which standards of comparison? | 29 |
Which comparison levels? | 3 |
What are the most current standards for whom? | 4 |
How do comparison standards develop? | 9 |
How do comparison levels develop? | 1 |
Determinants of success in meeting standards | 1 |
Perceptions of success in meeting standards | 2 |
Evidence for comparison theory | 102 |
Striking the balance of life | 30 |
The mental calculus: How do we assess how happy we are? | 23 |
Problems in reconstructing the evaluation of life | 3 |
Mental processes | 20 |
Estimating average experience | 1 |
Comparison | 10 |
Which is most decisive? | 4 |
When hedonic level most decisive, when contentment? | 11 |
Integrate appraisals | 0 |
Cognitive and affective appraisals | 14 |
Life aspect/domain satisfactions | 14 |
Past, present and future | 3 |
Pleasures and pains | 5 |
Reflect an attitude | 14 |
Is happiness a trait? | 55 |
Further calculative strategies of the mind | 3 |
Factors affecting the overall evaluation | 34 |
Contextual effects | 5 |
Heuristics | 4 |
Rose colored outlook | 12 |
Defensive bias | 2 |
Peak/end effects | 2 |
Homeostatic mechanisms | 13 |
Loss aversion | 5 |
Social models and pressures | 3 |
Development of happiness | 4 |
Adaptation | 61 |
Development of attitude towards life | 4 |
Promotive conditions | 15 |
Causal models | 56 |
Difference in conditions for happiness | 13 |
Across nations | 12 |
Within nations | 32 |
Difference across happiness levels | 0 |
Differences across personality types | 6 |
Difference in determinants of affective and cognitive components of happiness | 29 |
Explained variance | 1 |
Optimal degree of conditions | 0 |
(non)-linearity of statistical association | 1 |
Optimal mix of conditions | 2 |
Relative impact | 12 |
Size of environmental effect | 7 |
Further issues | 0 |
Evolutionary basis | 1 |
Heritability of happiness | 64 |
How universal is happiness? | 19 |
Similarity in concomitants of happiness | 1 |
Why low correlations? | 27 |
CONSEQUENCES of HAPPINESS | |
Description | Number of Publications |
68 | |
Problems in assessing happiness effects | 5 |
Effects on conditions for happiness | 0 |
Differences in effects of happiness | 0 |
Cultural difference in effects of happiness | 3 |
Difference in effects of happiness within nations | 4 |
Difference in effects of affective and cognitive component | 0 |
Relative impact of happiness and unhappiness | 1 |
Effect on environment | 5 |
Effects on society | 19 |
Effects on demography | 0 |
Effects on attractiveness for migrants | 1 |
Effects on economy | 1 |
Effect on acceptance of tourism | 0 |
Effects on attractiveness for tourists | 1 |
Effects on income inequality | 1 |
Effect on investment behavior | 2 |
Effect o productivity | 1 |
Effects on conflict/peace | 6 |
Effects on sustainability | 1 |
Effects on social bonds | 22 |
Effects on relations with intimates | 16 |
Effects on social capital in community | 0 |
Effects on other people personally | 0 |
Effects on colleagues | 2 |
Effects on intimates | 3 |
Effects on other people | 2 |
Effect on longevity of intimates | 0 |
Effects on oneself | 23 |
Effects on behavior | 2 |
Effects on choice | 4 |
Effects on consumer behavior | 2 |
Effects on frugality | 1 |
Effects on coping with loss | 1 |
Effects on ecological behavior | 0 |
Effects on happiness seeking | 1 |
Effects on health behavior | 5 |
Effects on physical activity | 3 |
Effects on use of stimulants | 1 |
Effects on migration | 5 |
Effects on moral behavior | 0 |
Effects on political behavior | 19 |
Effects on procreation | 0 |
Effects on pro-social behavior | 27 |
Effects on giving | 2 |
Effects on helping | 1 |
Effects on response behavior | 1 |
Effects on risk behavior | 4 |
Effects on social participation | 8 |
Effects on volunteer work | 2 |
Effects on cognition | 29 |
Effects on attribution | 0 |
Effects on perception/Retrospection | 8 |
Effects on reference | 1 |
Effects on satisfactions | 16 |
Effect on self-focus | 1 |
Effects on trust in people | 1 |
Effects on perceived meaning | 0 |
Effects on health | 11 |
Effects on physical health | 141 |
Effects on fertility | 5 |
Effects on functional health | 3 |
Effects of immune function | 4 |
Effects on recovery | 1 |
Effects on survival | 37 |
Effects on mental health | 36 |
Effects on life change | 3 |
Effects on motivation | 1 |
Effects on performance | 28 |
Effects on activity | 4 |
Effects on earnings | 9 |
Effects on learning | 13 |
Effects on work | 49 |
Effect on self-employment | 1 |
Effects on job change | 1 |
Effect on (un)employment | 3 |
Effects on personality development | 4 |
Effect on self-esteem | 1 |
Effect on self efficacy | 1 |
Effects on preferences | 14 |
Effects on materialism | 1 |
Effects on resilience | 0 |
Effects on satisfaction | 1 |
Effects on social behavior | 0 |
Various effects | 14 |
Functions of (un)happiness | 2 |
Functions of experiencing (un)happiness in oneself | 27 |
Functions of overall happiness | 22 |
Functions of hedonic level | 17 |
Functions of affective experience | 10 |
Functions of pleasantness in affect | 11 |
Functions of awareness of overall hedonic level | 0 |
Optimal ratio of positive and negative affect | 1 |
Functions of contentment | 2 |
Dysfunction of happiness | 6 |
Dysfunction of making up one's mind | 0 |
Dysfunction of judging life positively | 1 |
Can one be too happy? | 12 |
Functions of acknowledging happiness of others | 1 |
PURSUIT of HAPPINESS | |
Description | Number of Publications |
16 | |
Do people seek happiness? | 17 |
Pleasure as general force in motivation | 4 |
Happiness as an individual goal | 5 |
What people seek happiness? | 1 |
What people do to get happier | 19 |
Happiness as a public goal | 5 |
Is happiness feasible? | 13 |
Is lasting happiness possible? | 3 |
Can we be happy most of our life? | 0 |
Can we get happier than we are? | 2 |
How much happiness is maximally possible? | 1 |
Can happiness be promoted? | 70 |
Are people not too different? | 1 |
Can happiness be learned? | 31 |
Is happiness not too relative? | 73 |
Is happiness a trait? | 17 |
Are improvements of any consequences? | 1 |
Which improvements promise most effect? | 1 |
Will brain manipulation yield happiness? | 2 |
Is pursuit of happiness self-defeating? | 25 |
Can efficiency in use of resources for happiness be measured? | 1 |
Should happiness be promoted? | 42 |
Is happiness something good in itself (a virtue)? | 12 |
How much happiness is optimal? | 6 |
Isn't experiential happiness 'false' happiness? | 19 |
Does promotion of happiness come at the cost of other valued matters? | 5 |
What happiness most important? | 1 |
Ways to greater happiness in society (macro level) | 96 |
Analysis of effects on happiness | 62 |
Cost-benefit analysis and policy evaluation | 13 |
Micro-simulation | 1 |
History of happiness policy | 3 |
Recommended policies | 49 |
Choice | 1 |
Informing about effects on happiness | 1 |
Nudging | 0 |
Community | 1 |
Economy | 11 |
Income, wealth | 5 |
Taxation | 4 |
Sustainability | 0 |
Welfare | 5 |
Work | 3 |
Education | 5 |
Environment | 7 |
Family | 3 |
Childcare | 1 |
Foreign aid | 0 |
Health care | 5 |
Medical technology | 1 |
Mental health care | 8 |
Law | 0 |
Migration | 0 |
Social service | 0 |
Community service | 1 |
Military service | 1 |
Urban planning | 2 |
Value climate | 4 |
Observed effects on happiness of policy on …. | 15 |
Economy | 2 |
Austerity | 3 |
Education | 1 |
Expropriation | 1 |
Job protection | 1 |
Home-ownership | 3 |
Migration | 0 |
Minimum wage | 2 |
Redistribution of incomes | 2 |
Sustainability | 1 |
Taxation | 6 |
Welfare | 17 |
Work | 7 |
Workfare | 2 |
Family | 5 |
Child care policy | 6 |
Parental leave | 1 |
Foreign aid | 3 |
Health care | 1 |
Epidemic control: | 0 |
Mental health care | 1 |
Reduction of smoking, drinking | 4 |
Justice | 2 |
Role of government | 23 |
Side effects of happiness policy | 3 |
Ways to greater happiness in organizations (meso level) | 0 |
Recommended ways to improve happiness in organizations | 0 |
Ways to greater happiness of individuals (micro level) | 14 |
Informing about effects of choice on one's happiness, signaling function | 4 |
Recommended ways of life (individual level) | 10 |
Training tools | 1 |
Observed effects on happiness of interventions at individual level | 8 |
Activation programs | 6 |
Dance therapy | 2 |
Gardening therapy | 2 |
Internet training | 3 |
Leisure education | 4 |
Mental activation | 0 |
Music therapy | 1 |
Physical activation | 20 |
Social activation | 2 |
Crisis intervention | 1 |
Happiness education | 0 |
Biblio-therapy | 0 |
Happiness trainings | 20 |
Enjoyment training | 2 |
Nature involvement | 0 |
Novelty trying | 3 |
Savoring training | 5 |
Goal setting training | 13 |
Humor therapy | 5 |
Laughter yoga | 3 |
Meaning training | 2 |
Mental disciplining | 0 |
Meditation. Mindfulness | 27 |
Tai Chi, Yoga | 2 |
Positive thinking training | 33 |
Forgiving | 2 |
Gratitude | 34 |
Hope enhancement | 0 |
Kindness training | 10 |
Self-compassion training | 3 |
Self-awareness training | 5 |
Life review therapy | 13 |
Mood awareness training | 5 |
Thought process awareness | 1 |
Self-development training | 1 |
Best-possible self exercise | 9 |
Character strengths interventions | 15 |
Self-affirmation training | 5 |
Self-expressiveness training | 1 |
Self-help | 16 |
Self-monitoring of own happiness | 11 |
Comparison with the happiness of similar people | 4 |
Self-management training | 6 |
Sociability training | 5 |
Trainings using multiple methods | 28 |
Happiness lessons in school | 13 |
Reviews of happiness trainings and effect research | 31 |
Relaxation training | 2 |
Health care | 5 |
Health education | 3 |
Mental health care | 1 |
Spa therapy | 1 |
Lifestyle advise, life coaching | 15 |
Moral education | 1 |
Psycho-education | 5 |
Training for coping with care tasks | 4 |
Training for coping with illness | 8 |
Psycho-therapy | 11 |
Socio-therapy | 0 |
Relation therapy | 7 |
Spiritual encounter | 0 |
Support groups | 6 |
Vocational training | 3 |
Work motivation training | 1 |
Work wellbeing training | 2 |
Wellbeing support programs | 3 |
Workfare | 3 |
Fit with pursuit of other goals | 0 |
Fit pursuit of happiness with sustainability | 0 |
Technical tools | 1 |
VIEWS ON HAPPINESS: | |
Description | Number of Publications |
0 | |
Views on one's own happiness | 16 |
Perceived change in one's happiness over time | 45 |
Remembered happiness in the past | 88 |
Five years ago | 9 |
Happiness in youth | 27 |
Happiest period in life | 25 |
Expected happiness in the future | 102 |
Perceived changes in happiness | 66 |
Difference between earlier expected and currently experienced happiness | 2 |
Perceived comparative happiness | 16 |
Perceived control over one's happiness | 3 |
Perceived entitled happiness (How happy one ought to be) | 0 |
Perceived ideal happiness for oneself: most desirable degree | 7 |
Difference between ideal and real happiness | 1 |
Perceived importance of own happiness | 9 |
Perceived meaning in being happy | 1 |
Perceived reputation of happiness | 5 |
Perceived sources of one's own happiness | 328 |
Accuracy of perception | 37 |
Difference expected and remembered happiness | 0 |
Difference expected and experienced happiness | 16 |
Difference between expected happiness and choice | 2 |
Perceived sources of recent happy moments | 1 |
Perceived Stability of one's own happiness | 2 |
Prediction of one's own happiness | 9 |
Expected rise/decline of one's own happiness | 1 |
Reported ways to pursue happiness | 23 |
Views on happiness in public opinion | 4 |
Advice on happiness | 11 |
Attitudes to happiness | 8 |
Acceptance of happiness as a policy goal | 4 |
Acceptance of ways to happiness | 1 |
Acceptance of artificial happiness | 0 |
Ideological connotations of the term "happiness" | 1 |
Moral appreciation of happiness | 24 |
Expert opinion | 32 |
Public opinion | 43 |
Preference for happiness | 15 |
Pressure to be/act happy | 2 |
Self-presentation as (un)happy | 1 |
Beliefs about happiness | 15 |
Myths about happiness | 20 |
Perceived Level of happiness | 8 |
In the past | 7 |
In the present | 8 |
Of people in general | 14 |
Of compatriots | 10 |
Of people in other countries/regions | 8 |
Perceived livability of nations | 5 |
Of social categories | 42 |
Of intimates | 6 |
In the future | 12 |
Attribution of happiness level | 8 |
Perceived relative happiness | 1 |
Perceived sources of happiness: Concepts of the good life | 67 |
Expert opinion | 45 |
Among policy makers | 1 |
Public opinion | 67 |
Children's concepts of happiness | 8 |
Attribution of causal effects | 5 |
Perceived consequences of happiness | 2 |
Cultural variations in views on happiness | 62 |
Western vs. Non-Western countries | 33 |
Rise of the western happiness ideas | 47 |
Trend hedonic tone in public communications | 1 |
Interest in happiness | 12 |
Use of the word happiness | 3 |
Web search on happiness | 0 |
Prominence in public discourse | 5 |
Perceptiveness for happiness | 1 |
Reasons for (des)interest in happiness | 1 |
Models of happiness | 0 |
Models in advertisement | 2 |
Models in counseling | 21 |
Models in politics | 3 |
Models in fiction | 34 |
Models in proverbs | 2 |
Models in religion | 3 |
Models in social media | 2 |
Models in teaching | 1 |
Uses of happiness concepts | 11 |
Symbolic use | 1 |
Use in marketing | 1 |
Normative use | 8 |
Analytic use | 1 |
Use for inferring preferences | 1 |
Political use | 17 |
Policy aims | 11 |
Progress indicator | 2 |
Communication of happiness | 1 |
Views on happiness in philosophy | 21 |
Concepts of happiness | 47 |
Objective vs. Subjective concepts | 19 |
Mixed concepts: enjoying life while … | 10 |
Being well-informed | 11 |
Being morally sound | 11 |
Living up to common standards | 1 |
Thriving, actualizing | 9 |
Seeing meaning | 2 |
Specific concepts of happiness | 6 |
Happiness as affective experience | 30 |
Happiness as a cognitive appraisal | 26 |
Happiness as an attitude | 14 |
Short-term vs long-term happiness | 0 |
Difference with folk concept | 3 |
Difference with other notions of well-being | 1 |
History of philosophical thought | 20 |
Classics | 25 |
Contemporary | 14 |
Views on happiness in philosophies of life | 5 |
Buddhist views on happiness | 1 |
Christian views on happiness | 0 |
Humanistic views on happiness | 0 |
Islam views on happiness | 2 |
Jewish views on happiness | 0 |
Methodology | 3 |
Analysis of meanings of the word | 22 |
Analysis of (history) of ideas | 3 |
Empirical support for ideas | 11 |
Schools of philosophical thought | 53 |
Epicureanism | 1 |
Eudaimonism | 20 |
Hedonism | 4 |
Utilitarianism | 61 |
Topics in philosophy of happiness | 1 |
Conditions for happiness | 11 |
Control over one's happiness | 3 |
Critics of empirical happiness research | 32 |
Existence of a single hedonic dimension in affect | 2 |
Making people happy vs making more people happy | 1 |
Paradoxes of happiness | 12 |
Possibility of happiness | 3 |
Right for happiness | 1 |
Self-judgment of happiness | 7 |
Do people judge their life at all? | 1 |
How do people make judgment? | 3 |
How rational? | 10 |
Role of narrative | 2 |
Utility of happiness | 12 |
As a guide in private choice | 11 |
As a guide in public choice | 62 |
Goal of education | 1 |
Value of happiness | 58 |
Is happiness mere contentment? | 0 |
Is happiness the final end? | 6 |
Are there 'higher' and 'lower' kinds of happiness? | 3 |
Priority for the least happy? | 1 |
Relative to other values | 1 |
Happiness and well-being | 8 |
TO BE (RE)CODED | |
Description | Number of Publications |
1 | |
Relative strength of correlations | 2 |