Overview of the various distinguished publics included in the World Database of Happiness
Date of overview: 2022-05-26.
The World Database of Happiness is a collection of research findings on happiness. These findings come both from studies among the general population and studies in special publics such as eldery persons or lottery winners. Below is a list of publics. If you click the hyperlinked categories you get the excerpts of research findings among that kind of people.
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Category description | Additional keywords | Number of studies |
AGE groups | life stage | 6 |
• Youth | children. juveniles, minors, kids, youngster | 0 |
• Infants | babies | 20 |
• Toddlers | 1 | |
• Basic school children | elementary school pupils, elementary school | 93 |
• Teens, adolescents | teenagers, puberty | 352 |
• Twens | around age 20 | 31 |
• Young adults | 20-30 aged | 57 |
• Adults | 265 | |
• Childbearing aged | fertile, | 0 |
• Working age | labor force, age 18-65 | 292 |
• Middle aged | 40-60 aged | 42 |
• In menopause | 3 | |
• Elderly | 65+ aged, retired, old age | 233 |
• Very old | centennial | 12 |
• Generation | age group, cohort | 8 |
• Various age groups | 32 | |
CHILDREN other than age group | descendants, offspring | 2 |
• Children living with single parent | broken home | 1 |
• Gifted children | genius, high IQ | 0 |
• Handicapped children | special need, invalid | 2 |
• Children of divorce | broken home | 2 |
CONVINCTIONS | values, beliefs | 0 |
• Religious | church, faith, God, spiritual | 3 |
• Feminist | emancipation | 2 |
COMMUNAL LIVING | commune, group home | 0 |
• Living in Kibbutz | collective farm, Israel | 3 |
• Communal housing | collective | 2 |
• Company town | 1 | |
DEVIANTS | abnormal, non-mainstream, uncommon | 3 |
ETHNIC GROUP | minority, social group, race | 1 |
• Ethnic groups in USA | race | 2 |
• Whites in USA | Caucasian, European Americans | 31 |
• Blacks in USA | colored, African Americans | 8 |
• Ethnic groups in other nations | minority | 11 |
• Non-modern cultures | developing, non-western, primitive | 2 |
EDUCATION | schooling | 0 |
• Highschool pupils | learner, student | 88 |
• Students | undergraduate, graduate, university | 361 |
• Trainees | apprentice, novice | 4 |
• Alumni | graduate, former student | 5 |
• School-leavers | graduate | 3 |
• Well educated | cultured, learned, knowledgeable | 7 |
EMPLOYMENT | in labor force, job, work | 0 |
• Not Employed | jobless, unemployed, unwaged | 1 |
• Unemployed | jobless, unwaged | 26 |
• Housewives | home maker | 16 |
• Retired | pensioner | 43 |
• Employed | job, work | 86 |
• Employers | boss, manager, owner | 0 |
• Employees | staff, worker | 26 |
• Self employed | solo entrepreneurs, small business, professionals | 32 |
• Employees of a firm | 13 | |
• Kind of job | 1 | |
FAMILY | kin, primary group | 0 |
• Couples | bond, marriage, pair | 18 |
• Heads of households | boss | 11 |
• Family members | kin, relatives | 3 |
• Spouse | husband, wife, partner | 3 |
• Living with family | living with parents | 2 |
• Housewives | home maker | 1 |
• Twins | identical, fraternal, monozygotic | 7 |
• Divorced | broken marriage, separated | 1 |
GENDER | sex | 0 |
• Male | boys, men | 57 |
• Female | girls, women | 96 |
• Intersex | hermaphrodite, sex development disorder | 1 |
• Transgender | queer, transsexual, cisgender | 26 |
GENERAL PUBLIC, see also distributional findings in nation | citizenry, populace, population, residents | 0 |
HEALTH | ill, fit, morbidity | 2 |
• Mental Patients | disorder, disturbed, mad | 47 |
• Medical Patients | disease, ill | 104 |
• Sex reassignment | transgender | 5 |
• Handicapped | disabled, invalid | 21 |
• Drug use | addition, dependency, substance use | 1 |
• Tranquillizer users | sedative | 1 |
• Overweight | BMI, fat | 3 |
• Died later | death, mortality | 1 |
INCOME | earning, pay, salary, wage | 1 |
• Rich | affluent, wealthy, well to do | 1 |
• Poor | deprived, needy | 13 |
• Welfare Recipients | dole, on social security | 5 |
• Recent income change | 2 | |
INSTITUTIONAL LIVING | 1 | |
• Living in prison | jail, incarnated | 1 |
• Living in hospital | 2 | |
• Living in nursing home | 10 | |
• Living in cloister | monk, nun | 6 |
• Living in foster home | 2 | |
• Old age home | retirement home | 4 |
INTELLIGENCE | 0 | |
• Gifted | 5 | |
• Retarded | Dow syndrome, low IQ | 1 |
LIFE-HISTORY | background | 0 |
• Veterans | military, soldier, war | 6 |
LIFE-STYLE | way of life | 0 |
• Back-to-the-land mini-farmers | 5 | |
• Internet users | online, virtual, web | 11 |
• Lottery players/winners | pool | 10 |
• Meditators | mindfulness | 2 |
• Tourists | holiday, travel | 5 |
LIFE-STRESS | demanding events | 0 |
• Earlier life stress | scarring | 2 |
• Recent loss | bereaved | 3 |
• Recent divorce | separated | 4 |
• Recent unemployment | 8 | |
• Accident victims | disaster, mishap | 5 |
• Recent change in institutional setting | 3 | |
• People in transition | life phase | 24 |
• Recent hospitalization | medical treatment | 8 |
LOVE-LIFE | affection, sex | 0 |
• Dating couples | court, relationship | 2 |
MARITAL STATUS | matrimony, wedded | 0 |
• Non-Married | single | 12 |
• Married | wedded | 44 |
• Divorced | separated | 9 |
• Widowed | bereaved, loss, widow | 3 |
• Remarried | 1 | |
• Singles | 1 | |
MIGRATION | emigrant, expat, immigrant, wanderer | 1 |
• Ex-migrant workers | 2 | |
• Emigrants | leavers, out of country | 3 |
• Immigrants | new comer | 30 |
• Refugees | exile, displaced persons | 4 |
• Intimates left behind after migration | 6 | |
MEMBERSHIPS | association, club, social participation | 0 |
• Union members | trade union | 1 |
• Singles association | 1 | |
• Student sorority | student house | 2 |
• Professional association | 1 | |
• Church | temple | 3 |
MINORITY STATUS | the few, outnumbered | 0 |
• Ethic minority | native, stem, sub-culture | 0 |
• Sexual minority | sexual behavior, transgender, non-binary, intersex individuals | 0 |
• Homo-sexuals | gay, lesbian | 0 |
OCCUPATION | job, profession, work | 2 |
• Academics | scholar, professor, researcher | 15 |
• Administrative | clerk | 3 |
• Artists | actor, musician, painter, singer, writer | 2 |
• Clergy | church, pastor | 4 |
• Commercial | business | 0 |
• Farmers | agriculture | 9 |
• Fishers | sailors | 1 |
• Industry | 10 | |
• Laborers, blue collar | worker | 5 |
• Managers | boss | 9 |
• Military | soldier | 9 |
• Miners | 1 | |
• Nurses | health care professional | 3 |
• Physicians | health care professional | 8 |
• Psychologist | 0 | |
• Service | 5 | |
• Social Workers | coaches | 2 |
• Public civil services | 1 | |
• Students | pupil | 30 |
• Teachers | school, professor | 9 |
• Telephone operators | 1 | |
• Top sporter | athlete, professional sporter | 0 |
• Truck drivers | transport worker | 1 |
PERSONALITY | character | 0 |
• Pessimistic | optimist | 2 |
• Ambitious | 0 | |
• Cheerful | happy, gloomy, depressed | 7 |
PARENTHOOD | mother, father | 0 |
• Childless | childfree | 4 |
• involuntary | infertile | 0 |
• Parents | mother, father | 9 |
• Parents with children at home | 14 | |
• Parents in empty nest phase | 4 | |
• Parents of handicapped children | 2 | |
• Parents of students | 1 | |
• Mothers | mum | 63 |
• Working mothers | 14 | |
• Fathers | dad | 1 |
• Single parents | lone parents, broken home | 5 |
• Abusing parents | 1 | |
• Step-parents | 0 | |
• Divorced parents | broken home | 1 |
POSSESSIONS | assets | 0 |
• Car-owners | automobile | 1 |
• House owners | private property | 1 |
PRACTICES | behaviors | 0 |
• Caregivers | nurse | 1 |
• Donors | benefactor, giver | 0 |
• Charity donors | philanthropy | 1 |
• Organ donors | transplantation, gift of life | 2 |
• Drug users | dope, narcotic | 0 |
PRISONERS | criminal, inmate, jail | 2 |
RELIGION | belief, conviction | 0 |
• Catholics | Roman Catholic | 4 |
• Protestants | 0 | |
• Adventists | 0 | |
RESIDENCE | living environment, place | 1 |
• Housing complex | 2 | |
• Retirement community | old age residence | 1 |
• Rural | country | 21 |
• Urban | town, metropolitan | 111 |
• Metropolitan | big city | 29 |
• Poor or prosperous area | back ward | 1 |
• Sub-urban | 2 | |
• Planned/unplanned community | 2 | |
• Homeless | destitute | 4 |
SEXUAL BEHAVOIR | carnal, erotic, love | 0 |
• Prostitutes | hooker, sex worker, whore | 2 |
• prostitute clients | whore hopper | 1 |
• Sexual preference | 0 | |
• Asexuals | 0 | |
• Bisexuals | inter-sexual | 2 |
• Homosexuals | gay, lesbian, | 6 |
X | 0 | |
SOCIAL STATUS | class, position, prestige | 0 |
• Upper class | high | 1 |
• Middle class | white collar | 10 |
• Lower class | blue collar | 9 |
SOCIAL PROGRAM USERS | benefactors, social policy | 13 |
SPORTS | Athletic | 0 |
• Sporters | 3 | |
• Athletes | 1 | |
• Spectators | fans | 1 |
THERAPY | treatment, intervention | 0 |
• Earlier in therapy | 1 | |
• Therapy clients | 3 | |
• Psycho-therapy clients | in treatment for mental disorder | 5 |
• Users of coaching services | coachee | 2 |
• Users of positive psychological interventions | happiness seekers, self-help users | 59 |
• Users of physical activation programs | training, work-out | 0 |
• Therapists | coaches, psychologists | 1 |
WELL-BEING | flourish, happiness | 0 |
• very happy or unhappy | extreme score | 1 |
WORK | profession, occupation | 1 |
• Occupational sector | branch, trade | 0 |
• Public sector employees | government, civil service | 1 |
• Private sector employees | market | 1 |