This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for … Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking - one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …

. This entry also briefly discusses: recent history of well-being measurement; what makes people better off in theory; the …

, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what is happening to the incomes of others. An increase in the incomes … of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income …

among the last places in terms of GDP per capita or median income, and despite this the population of our country has an …The paper analyzes the satisfaction regarding the financial situation in Romania compared to the rest of the member … countries of the European Union. The work analyzed indicators that express the material well-being of a society such as: GDP and …

Existing well-being measurement initiatives in the region, such as the Quality of Life Indicators in Korea, Bhutan …’s Gross National Happiness Index and Quality of Life Index in the Philippines, shed some insight on dimensions that should be … considered for measuring well-being beyond GDP in Asia. Dimensions of housing, health, education, environment and civic …

, this paper examines the predictors of adolescent subjective well-being (SWB) from a cross-cultural angle. Life satisfaction … quality, and peer SWB. Analyses by world region reveal several culture-specific explanations for interregional well-being gaps …. In particular, low life satisfaction among academically high-performing students from Confucian East Asia is found to be …

-being ; happiness ; satiation ; basic needs ; Easterlin paradox …