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Greater happiness for a greater number: did the promise of enlightenment come true?
(Springer, 2017)
In the eighteenth century 'Enlightened' thinkers challenged the belief that happiness exists only in Heaven. They claimed that happiness is possible in earthly life and foresaw that greater happiness would be achieved using ...
The '10 Excess' phenomenon in responses to survey questions on happiness
(Springer, 2017)
Happiness in nations is typically measured in surveys using a single question. A common question is: 'all things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days on a scale from 0 to ...
Why are Locals Happier than Internal Migrants? The role of daily life
(Springer, 2016)
Several survey studies have found that internal migrants report lower levels of happiness than locals, even after accounting for socio-economic factors. Traditional global self-ratings reveal that the migrant-local ...
Informed pursuit of happiness: what we should know, do know and can get to know
(Springer, 2015)
The rational pursuit of happiness requires knowledge of happiness and in particular answers to the following four questions: (1) Is greater happiness realistically possible? (2) If so, to what extent is that in our own ...
Homogenizing responses to different survey questions on the same topic: Proposal of a scale homogenization method using a reference distribution
(Springer, 2014)
Survey data are often used for comparison purposes, such as comparisons across nations or comparisons over time. To be effective, this would require equivalent questions and equivalent responses options to the questions. ...
Pooling time series based on slightly different questions about the same topic forty years of survey research on happiness and life satisfaction in the Netherlands
(Springer, 2016)
Survey research on subjective wellbeing in The Netherlands started in the early 1970s. The time series happiness and life satisfaction that have emerged since then are unfortunately based on slightly different survey items ...
Conversion of verbal response scales: robustness across demographic categories
(Springer, 2016)
Happiness and life satisfaction have traditionally been measured using verbal response scales, however, these verbal scales have not kept up with the present trend to use numerical response scales. A switch from a verbal ...
Mental Health Care and Average Happiness: Strong Effect in Developed Nations
(Springer, 2015)
Mental disorder is a main cause of unhappiness in modern society and investment in mental health care is therefore likely to add to average happiness. This prediction was checked in a comparison of 143 nations around 2005. ...
‘Very happy’ is not always equally happy: on the meaning of verbal response options in survey questions
(Springer, 2015)
Survey research is based on questioning and respondents typically answer to questions by picking one of several response options. These response options are labeled verbally with terms such as very happy or fairly happy ...
Happy protest voters: the case of Rotterdam 1997-2009
(Springer, 2016)
Protest parties are on the rise in several European countries. This development is commonly attributed to a growing dissatisfaction with life and associated with declining quality of life in modern society of the lowest ...