Happiness in publics

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