Metrics of Subjective Well-Being: Limits and Improvements

Chapter 1 Towards More Complexity in Subjective Well-Being Studies

Chapter 2 Can Good Life Be Measured? The Dimensions and Measurability of a Life Worth Living

Chapter 3 The Subjective Object of Well-Being Studies: Well-Being as the Experience of Being Well

Chapter 4 Measures of Happiness: Which to Choose?

Chapter 5 Explaining the Decline in Subjective Well-Being Over Time in Panel Data

Chapter 6 Reducing Current Limitations in Order to Enhance the Quality of Subjective Well-Being Research: The Example of Mindfulness

Chapter 7 Measuring Indecision in Happiness Studies

Chapter 8 Evaluating Comparability of Survey Data on Subjective Well-being

Chapter 9 Label Scale and Rating Scale in Subjective Well-Being Measurement

Chapter 10 Culture and Well-Being: A Research Agenda Designed to Improve Cross-Cultural Research Involving the Life Satisfaction Construct

Chapter 11 Objective and Subjective Indices of Well-Being: Resolving the Easterlin Happiness–Income Paradox

Chapter 12 Methods to Increase the Comparability in Cross-National Surveys, Highlight on the Scale Interval Method and the Reference Distribution Method