carers had poorer health and well-being, reported less happiness with their lives, were more likely to be bullied at school …

This paper attempts to explain the conceptual connections between happiness and well-being. It first distinguishes … episodic happiness from happiness in the personal attribute sense. It then evaluates two recent proposals about the connection … between happiness and well-being: (1) the idea that episodic happiness and well-being both have the same fundamental …

Happiness measures, reflecting individuals’ well-being, have received increasing attention by policy makers. Policies … could target absolute happiness levels when aiming at increasing a society’s well-being. But given upper bounds of happiness … measures, as well as the possibilities of decreasing returns to happiness resources, we argue that an important measure of …

spill over to the home domain, increasing their happiness level at the end of the day. Moreover, we predicted a crossover of … happiness between the members of the couple. Participants filled in a diary booklet during five consecutive working days (N … effect on daily happiness. We also found that employees’ daily work engagement influenced partner’s daily happiness through …

In his book “The Politics of Happiness” Derek Bok argues that happiness should be a goal in public policy. He presents … an inventory of social problems in the US with negative effects on happiness, like inadequate education, chronic pain … deal with these problems. He also pays attention to some more general happiness-issues for US-policymakers, like the …

incremental variance in happiness (Lyubomirsky’s scale) and psychological well-being (Ryff’s scale), after controlling for Big …) responded to measures of each construct, and two hierarchical multiple regressions were carried out for happiness and … explained a complementary amount of variance in happiness and psychological well-being, controlling for the previous day’s mood …

“Exploring happiness”, published in 2010, she explains why she finds happiness unfit to be included. She observes that there are … discordant claims about what happiness is. Any particular vision can lead to practical choices that either adhere or violate the … values she prefers. In my view subjective happiness should be included, because there are no discordant claims about the …

Friendship is a consistent correlate of happiness, yet less is known about the associations of friendship specific … experiences and feelings with happiness. In this study (n = 4,382) the roles of perceived responses to capitalization attempts …, perceived mattering to and satisfaction of basic psychological needs in same-sex best friendships in happiness among men and …