Encyclopedia of happiness, quality of life and subjective wellbeing

doi:10.4337/9781800889675

2024

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BROCKMANN, Hilke

; FERNANDEZ URBANO, Roger

(editor/s)

Cheltenham ; Norhampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024

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BROCKMANN, Hilke, FERNANDEZ URBANO, Roger (editor/s), BROCKMANN, Hilke, FERNANDEZ URBANO, Roger, Encyclopedia of happiness, quality of life and subjective wellbeing, Cheltenham ; Norhampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77310

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This comprehensive Encyclopedia delves into the underpinnings, approaches, and recent advancements in the dynamic global landscape of happiness and wellbeing research. Laying out the foundational concepts and disciplinary perspectives in the field, international leading and diverse authors survey the determinants and mechanisms which are associated with happiness, quality of life and subjective wellbeing.

Table of Contents:

-- Introduction -- PART I. Foundational concepts and disciplinary perspectives -- 1: A biological approach to understanding happiness -- 2: The economics of happiness research -- 3: The epistemology of wellbeing -- 4: The ethics of wellbeing -- 5: Neuroscience and genetics of mental wellbeing and clinical applications -- 6: Positive affect and health: past, present, and future scientific endeavors -- 7: Positive psychology and happiness research -- 8: Public policy and happiness -- PART II. Determinants and mechanisms of wellbeing -- 9: Age and happiness -- 10: Balance and harmony -- 11: Consumerism and biased perceptions on happiness -- 12: Correlations, causality, and mechanisms between happiness and health -- 13: Cultural differences and happiness -- 14: Education and happiness: schooling does not add to your personal happiness but does add to the average -- 15: Environmental science and happiness -- 16: Individual wellbeing and cortisol -- 17: Job insecurity and subjective wellbeing -- 18: Money and happiness -- 19: Physical pain and wellbeing -- 20: Relative income – relative concerns -- 21: Resilience and positive mental health -- 22: Sense of touch and happiness -- 23: Singlehood and wellbeing -- 24: Social capital and subjective wellbeing -- 25: Social cohesion and happiness: 1 findings from the social cohesion radar -- 26: Social mobility and subjective wellbeing -- 27: The state of the art on children's subjective well-being and quality of life -- 28: Status anxiety and wellbeing -- 29: The study of risk and resilience -- PART III. Wellbeing across different populations -- 30: Cities and happiness: past, present, and future -- 31: Geography and happiness: a space and place approach -- 32: Happiness and indigenous peoples -- 33: Happiness and migration -- 34: Latin American happiness. Lessons for a new paradigm of progress as happiness -- 35: Romantic relationships, partners, and happiness in under-represented groups -- 36: Should 7.5 billion earthlings be happy? A view from Indian sub-continent -- 37: Subjective wellbeing of children: concept, measurement and empirical application -- 38: Wellbeing in India: past, present, and future perspectives -- 39: World Happiness Report: origins, purpose, contents, impact and future -- PART IV. Data, methods and measures in wellbeing research -- 40: Assessment of the reliability of subjective measures -- 41: Big data and happiness -- 42: Happiness: cardinal measurability and interpersonal comparability -- 43: Japan's happiness index: concept, framework and a public policy tool -- 44: Measuring societal progress -- 45: The OECD Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being -- 46: Wellby -- 47: The World Database of Happiness: A findings archive -- 48: Animal happiness -- PART V. Emerging and trending topics -- 49: Automation and wellbeing -- 50: Autonomy and wellbeing -- 51: Brain stimulation and genetic engineering -- 52: Social policy, child poverty, and children's quality of life or children, social policy, and children's quality of life -- 53: Cold comfort: wellbeing through extreme environmental exposure -- 54: Eco-anxiety and happiness -- 55: Happiness and spatial inequality: past, present, and future -- 56: Meritocracy and happiness -- 57: Productivity and subjective wellbeing -- 58: Purpose, spirituality, and happiness: a multidimensional perspective -- 59: War and happiness -- 60: Work from home and subjective wellbeing -- PART VI. Resumés -- 61: The tapestry of life: a personal story -- 62: Epilogue

Additional information:

Published online: 16 July 2024; Chapter 39 'World happiness report : origins, purpose, contents, impact and future' is available Open Access.

Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77310

Full-text via DOI: 10.4337/9781800889675

ISBN: 9781800889668; 9781800889675

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

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