Subjective well-being : measuring happiness, suffering, and other dimensions of experience / Panel on Measuring Subjective Well-Being in a Policy-Relevant Framework ; Arthur A. Stone and Christopher Mackie, editors ; Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stone, Arthur A., editor.

Mackie, C. J., editor.

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics, issuing body.

National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political planning.

Policy sciences.

Well-being.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Could gathering data on subjective well-being help governments and organizations develop policies that better serve the needs of their constituents? This book explores that question, focusing on the policy value of gauging "experienced well-being": peoples' moment to moment and day to day feelings of pleasure, contentment, pain and other emotions and sensations. This report identifies areas of policy and practice where such data would be useful -- ranging from city planning to custody policy to end-of-life care -- and discusses additional aspects of subjective well-being that are important for policy makers to consider. This report also assesses approaches for gathering these data, identifies surveys that should collect them on an experimental basis, and discusses methodological questions that remain.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Conceptualizing Experienced (or Hedonic) Well-Being""; ""3 Measuring Experienced Well-Being""; ""4 Additional Conceptual and Measurement Issues""; ""5 Subjective Well-Being and Policy""; ""6 Data Collection Strategies""; ""References""; ""Appendix A: Experienced Well-Being Questions and Modules from Existing Surveys""; ""Appendix B: The Subjective Well-Being Module of the American Time Use Survey:Assessment for Its Continuation""; ""Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members""

""Committee on National Statistics""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 6, 2014).

ISBN:

0-309-29449-5

0-309-29447-9

OCLC:

923287801