The orientations to happiness scale (OTH) was designed to measure three routes to happiness: pleasure (hedonia), meaning (eudaimonia) and engagement (flow). Past research utilising the scale suggests that all orientations predict life satisfaction, with meaning and engagement the stronger...

I investigate the relationship between the popular Mercer city ranking (livability) and survey data (satisfactions). Livability aims to capture <Emphasis Type="Underline">objective quality of life such as infrastructure. Survey items capture <Emphasis Type="Underline">subjective quality of life such as satisfaction with city. The relationship...</emphasis></emphasis>

Research on virtues and character strengths has increased over the last decade. A total of 283 young participants from Portugal completed a measure of character strengths (Furnham and Lester in Eur J Psychol Assess 28:95–101, <CitationRef CitationID="CR5">2012</CitationRef>) grounded on the values in action inventory of strengths...</citationref>

Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching (also known as Quality of Life Therapy) is a comprehensive, manualized, theory-based, and, according to Diener (2013) and Seligman (Flourish, Free Press, NY, <CitationRef CitationID="CR134">2011</CitationRef>, p. 292), evidence-based approach to well being, happiness, and positive psychology intervention...</citationref>

The concept of well-being has evolved over the past several decades as research has continued to reveal its multidimensional, dynamic, person-specific and culture-specific nature. Most recently, the ecological embeddedness of well-being has also gained recognition, and this development of the...

The Flourishing Scale (FS) and the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE) developed by Diener et al. (Soc Indic Res 97:143–156, <CitationRef CitationID="CR23">2010</CitationRef>) are brief subjective measures to assess psychological flourishing and feelings. The FS provides a single score from eight items. The 12-item SPANE...</citationref>

Inconsistencies in comparisons of older parents’ well-being with that of older, childless adults may be resolved by considering the separate effects of sons and daughters on parents. The hypothesis was that older parents of only daughters have greater life satisfaction, more satisfying...

In line with the economic crisis and rapid socio-demographic changes, the interest in ‘social’ and ‘well-being’ indicators has been revived. Social indicator movements of the 1960s resulted in the establishment of social indicator statistical frameworks; that legacy has remained intact...

The emergence of positive psychology has generated increased interest about the correlates of positive psychological functioning. Researchers have identified and studied various positive psychological constructs (e.g., hope, optimism, self-efficacy, gratitude, and life satisfaction) and found...