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The Metrics of Happiness

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 86)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10913-3

ISBN: 978-3-031-10912-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 25, 2022

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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An Introduction to the Concepts and Ideas

Freeze, R. Allan

Pages: 3 –26

[This introductory chapter leads the reader gently into the world of happiness and wellbeing, first defining and differentiating these two terms, and then providing a review of many other basic concepts and ideas. The reader is introduced to the four founding disciplines, and their roles in the...
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The Positive Psychology Movement

Freeze, R. Allan

Pages: 27 –38

[This chapter traces the maturation of the discipline of psychology from its roots in the treatment of mental disorders and abnormal behavior to a more holistic focus that gives greater attention to the character strengths and virtues that make life worth living. It summarizes many of the...
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The Social Indicators Movement

Freeze, R. Allan

Pages: 39 –59

[In the past few decades there has been a revolution in the world of economics, wherein it is recognized that traditional economic indicators like the Gross Domestic Product or the Dow-Jones Industrial Average do not reflect the full scale of wellbeing in the populace. They tend to reflect...
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The Sustainability Movement

Freeze, R. Allan

Pages: 61 –74

[This chapter identifies the long-term symbiotic relationship that exists between human happiness and the ecological health of our planet. It clarifies the impact of environmental degradation on current and future wellbeing, and identifies the concept of sustainable development as a meaningful...
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Happiness Studies in the Biological and Medical Sciences

Freeze, R. Allan

Pages: 75 –93

[This chapter briefly summarizes recent research in genetics and the neurosciences that hold out hope for a better understanding of human happiness. Among other issues, it outlines the ongoing controversy between geneticists and psychologists as to whether people have an inherited set point of...
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The Assessment of Personal Happiness and Life Satisfaction

Freeze, R. Allan

Pages: 97 –133

[There are hundreds of indexes of personal happiness and life satisfaction. Almost all of them are based on self-reported subjective assessments from polls and questionnaires. This chapter focuses on eighteen of the best-known and most-widely quoted of these measures. There is a surprising lack...
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The Dimensions of Communal Wellbeing

Freeze, R. Allan

Pages: 135 –151

[This chapter lays the groundwork for the chapters that follow on the measurement of happiness and wellbeing at societal scale. In particular, it addresses the issue of how many different dimensions of life must be addressed in such an assessment, and how one might go about their weighting and...
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The Building Blocks of Communal Wellbeing

Freeze, R. Allan

Pages: 153 –184

[There are many indexes that treat just one of the eight dimensions of communal wellbeing identified in the previous chapter. In this chapter the reader is introduced to thirty-one of these single-dimensional indexes, most of them very briefly, some in limited detail, and three of them in...
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The Wellbeing of Nations

Freeze, R. Allan

Pages: 185 –237

[This chapter is the heart of the book. It highlights the multi-dimensional composite indexes of wellbeing that provide the country-wide, socially-relevant, and all-encompassing measures that have long been the dream of the social indicators movement. These are the constructs that attempt to...
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The Livability of Cities

Freeze, R. Allan

Pages: 239 –270

[Socially-relevant indicators and indexes need not be limited to a country-wide scale. They can also be defined at the scale of regions, cities, and even neighborhoods. This chapter summarizes twelve indexes that have been developed specifically to assess the livability of cities. It also...

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