Overview of the various distinguished publics included in the World Database of Happiness
Date of overview: 2021-01-16.
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 | 7 |
• Youth | children. juvelines, minors, kids, yougster | 0 |
• Infants | babies | 20 |
• Todlers | 0 | |
• Basic school children | elementary school pupils, elementary school | 36 |
• Teens, adolescents | teenagers, puberty | 231 |
• Twens | around age 20 | 31 |
• Young adults | 20-30 aged | 56 |
• Adults | 261 | |
• Working age | labour force, age 18-165 | 274 |
• Middle aged | 40-60 aged | 30 |
• In menopause | 3 | |
• Elderly | 65+ aged, retired, old age | 208 |
• Very old | centanian | 12 |
• Generation | age group, cohort | 7 |
• Various age groups | 31 | |
CHILDREN | descentants, offspring | 2 |
• Children living with single parent | broken home | 1 |
• Gifted children | genius, high IQ | 0 |
• Handicaped children | special need, invalid | 2 |
• Children of divorce | broken home | 2 |
CONVINCTIONS | values, beliefs | 0 |
• Religious | church, faith, God, spiritual | 1 |
• Feminist | emancipation | 2 |
COMMUNAL LIVING | commune, group home | 0 |
• Living in Kibutz | collective farm, Israel | 3 |
• Communal housing | collective | 2 |
• Company town | 1 | |
DEVIANT | abnormal, non-mainstream | 3 |
ETHNIC GROUP | minority, social group, race | 1 |
• Ethnic groups in USA | race | 2 |
• Whites in USA | Caucasian, European Americans | 29 |
• Blacks in USA | coloured, African Americans | 7 |
• Ethnic groups in other nations | minority | 11 |
• Non-modern cultures | developing, non-western, primitive | 2 |
EDUCATION | schooling | 0 |
• Highschool pupils | learner, student | 79 |
• Students | undergraduate, graduate, university | 339 |
• Trainees | appentice, novice | 4 |
• Allumni | graduate, former student | 5 |
• School-leavers | graduate | 3 |
• Well educated | cultured, learned, knowledgeble | 6 |
EMPLOYMENT | in labour force, job, work | 0 |
• Not Employed | jobless, unemployed, unwaged | 1 |
• Unemployed | jobless, unwaged | 24 |
• Housewives | home maker | 14 |
• Retired | pensioner | 27 |
• Employed | job, work | 74 |
• Employers | boss, manager, owner | 0 |
• Employees | staff, worker | 23 |
• Self employed | solo entrepreneurs, small business, professionals | 30 |
• Employees of a firm | 12 | |
• Kind of job | 1 | |
FAMILY | kin, primary group | 0 |
• Couples | bond, marriage, pair | 17 |
• 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, mono-zigous | 7 |
• Divorced | broken marriage, separated | 1 |
GENDER | sexe | 1 |
• Male | boys, men | 53 |
• Female | girls, women | 94 |
• Transgender | queer, transsexual | 18 |
GENERAL PUBLIC, see AREA | 0 | |
HEALTH | ill, fit, morbidity | 1 |
• Mental Patients | disorder, disturbed, mad | 46 |
• Medical Patients | disase, ill | 94 |
• Sex reassignment | transgender | 2 |
• Handicapped | disabled, invalid | 20 |
• 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 | 10 |
• Welfare Recipients | dole, on social security | 4 |
• 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 | |
• Living in retirement home | 4 | |
INTELLIGENCE | 0 | |
• Gifted | 5 | |
• Retarded | Dow syndrome, low IQ | 1 |
LIFE-HISTORY | background | 0 |
• Organ donors | 2 | |
• Veterans | militair, soldier, war | 6 |
LIFE-STYLE | way of life | 0 |
• Back-to-the-land mini-farmers | 5 | |
• Homosexuals | gay | 4 |
• Internet users | web | 8 |
• Lottery players/winners | pool | 9 |
• Meditators | mindfulness | 2 |
• Tourists | holliday, travel | 5 |
LIFE-STRESS | 0 | |
• Earlier life stress | scarring | 2 |
• Recent loss | bereaved | 3 |
• Recent divorce | separated | 6 |
• Recent unemployment | 8 | |
• Accident victims | disaster, mishap | 5 |
• Recent change in institutional setting | 3 | |
• People in transition | life phase | 20 |
• Recent hospitalisation | medical treatment | 8 |
LOVE-LIFE | affection, sex | 0 |
• Dating couples | court, relationship | 1 |
MARITAL STATUS | matrimony, wedded | 0 |
• Non-Married | single | 11 |
• Married | wedded | 37 |
• Divorced | separated | 11 |
• Widowed | bereaved, loss, widow | 3 |
• Remarried | 1 | |
• Singles | 1 | |
MIGRATION | emigrant, expat, immigrant, wanderer | 1 |
• Ex-migrantworkers | 2 | |
• Emigrants | leavers, out of country | 3 |
• Immigrants | new comer | 29 |
• Refugees | exile | 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 |
OCCUPATION | job, profession, work | 0 |
• Academics | scholar, professor, researcher | 13 |
• Administrative | clerck | 3 |
• Artists | actor, musician, painter, singer, writer | 2 |
• Clergy | church, pastor | 4 |
• Commercial | business | 0 |
• Farmers | agriculture | 8 |
• Fishers | sailors | 1 |
• Industry | 10 | |
• Labourers, blue collar | worker | 5 |
• Managers | boss | 9 |
• Military | soldier | 9 |
• Miners | 1 | |
• Nurses | health care professional | 2 |
• Physicians | health care professional | 4 |
• Psychologist | 0 | |
• Service | 5 | |
• Social Workers | coache | 2 |
• Students | pupil | 28 |
• Teachers | school, professor | 6 |
• Telephone operators | 1 | |
• Top sporter | athlete, professional sporter | 0 |
• Truck drivers | transport worker | 1 |
PERSONALITY | character | 0 |
• Pessimistic | optimist | 2 |
• Ambitious | 0 | |
• Cheerfull | happy, gloomy, depressed | 7 |
PARENTHOOD | mother, father | 0 |
• Childless | cheldfree | 4 |
• involuntary | infertile | 0 |
• Parents | mother, father | 6 |
• Parents with children at home | 13 | |
• Parents in empty nest phase | 4 | |
• Parents of handicapped children | 2 | |
• Parents of students | 1 | |
• Mothers | mum | 60 |
• Working mothers | 13 | |
• Fathers | dad | 1 |
• Single parents | lone parents, broken home | 4 |
• Abusing parents | 1 | |
• Step-parents | 0 | |
• Divorced parents | broken home | 1 |
POSSESSIONS | assets | 0 |
• Car-owners | automobile | 1 |
• House owners | private property | 1 |
PRACTICES | behaviours | 0 |
PRISONERS | criminal, inmate, jail | 2 |
PROSTITUTES | hooker, sex worker, whore | 2 |
• prostitute clients | whore hopper | 1 |
RELIGION | belief, conviction | 0 |
• Catholics | Roman Catholic | 4 |
• Protestants | 0 | |
• Adventists | 0 | |
RESIDENCE | living environment, place | 0 |
• Housing complex | 2 | |
• Retirement community | old age residence | 1 |
• Rural | country | 21 |
• Urban | town, metropolitan | 99 |
• Metropolitan | big city | 24 |
• Poor or prosperous area | back ward | 1 |
• Sub-urban | 2 | |
• planned/unplanned community | 1 | |
• Homeless | destitute | 4 |
SOCIAL STATUS | class, position, prestige | 0 |
• Upper class | high | 1 |
• Middle class | white collar | 10 |
• Lower class | blue collar | 9 |
SPORTS | Athletic | 0 |
• Sporters | 2 | |
• Athletes | 1 | |
THERAPY | treatment, intervention | 0 |
• Earlier in therapy | 1 | |
• Therapy clients | 2 | |
• Psycho-therapy clients | in treatment for mental disorder | 3 |
• Users of coaching services | caochee | 2 |
• Users of positive psychological interventions | happiness seekers, self-help users | 43 |
• Therapists | coaches, psychologists | 1 |
WELL-BEING | flourish, happiness | 0 |
• very happy or unhappy | extreme score | 1 |
MISCELLANEOUS | 11 |