Metrics of subjective well-being : limits and improvements / Gaël Brulé, Filomena Maggino, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brulé, Gaël, editor.

Maggino, Filomena, editor.

Series:

Happiness studies book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Well-being.

Quality of life.

Happiness.

Social indicators.

Physical Description:

x, 264 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

Summary:

This volume analyses the quantification of the effect of factors measuring subjective well-being, and in particular on the metrics applied. With happiness studies flourishing over the last decades, both in number of publications as well as in their exposure, researchers working in this field are aware of potential weaknesses and pitfalls of these metrics. Contributors to this volume reflect on different factors influencing quantification, such as scale size, wording, language, biases, and cultural comparability in order to raise awareness on the tools and their conditions of use.

Contents:

Towards more complexity in subjective well-being studies

Part I. Conceptual issues

Can good life be measured? The dimensions and measurability of a life worth living

The subjective object of well-being studies: well-being as the experience of being well

Part II. Measurement issues

Measures of happiness: which to choose?

Explaining the decline in subjective well-being over time in panel data

Reducing current limitations in order to enhance the quality of subjective well-being research: the example of mindfulness

Measuring indecision in happiness studies

Part III. Comparability issues

Evaluating comparability of survey data on subjective well-being

Label scale and rating scale in subjective well-being measurement

Part IV. Possible improvements of the measurability of subjective well-being

Culture and well-being: a research agenda designed to improve cross-cultural research involving the life satisfaction construct

Objective and subjective indices of well-being: resolving the Easterline happiness-income paradox

Methods to increase the comparability in cross-national surveys, highlight on the scale interval method and the reference distribution method.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319618091

9783319618098

OCLC:

988276549