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Assessing Well-Being

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 39)

Editors: Diener, Ed

DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2354-4

ISBN: 978-90-481-2353-7

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2009

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Chapter 11Income’s Differential Influence on Judgments of Life Versus AffectiveWell-Being

Diener, Ed; Kahneman, Daniel; Arora, Raksha; Harter, James; Tov, William

Pages: 233 –246

[Findings are presented indicating that measures of subjective well-being can be ordered along a dimension varying from evaluative judgments of life at one end to experienced affect at the other. A debate in recent decades has focused on whether increasing income raises the experience of...
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Chapter 12New Measures of Well-Being

Diener, Ed; Wirtz, Derrick; Biswas-Diener, Robert; Tov, William; Kim-Prieto, Chu; Choi, Dong-won; Oishi, Shigehiro

Pages: 247 –266

[We present new measures of well-being to assess the following concepts: 1. Psychological Well-Being (PWB); 2. Positive Feelings, Negative Feelings, and the balance between the two (SPANE-P, N, B); and 3. Positive Thinking. The PWB scale is a short 8–item summary survey of the person’s...
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Chapter 13Conclusion: Future Directions in Measuring Well-Being

Diener, Ed

Pages: 267 –274

[The studies in the present volume point to several facts that we have learned about defining and measuring well-being. First, we know with a degree of certainty that there are separable components of well-being, such as life judgments versus positive emotions, and we know some of the factors...

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