Subjective well-being : measuring happiness, suffering, and other dimensions of experience

Subjective well-being measuring happiness, suffering, and other dimensions of experience

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics, issuing body (issuing body), National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, issuing body
Other Authors: Stone, Arthur A., editor (editor), Mackie, C. J., editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press [2013]
Subjects:
Political planning.
Policy sciences.
Well-being.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009622076006719
Table of 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""

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