Metrics of Subjective Well-Being: Limits and Improvements

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Chapter 1. Towards more complexity in subjective well-being studies; Gaël Brulé and Filomena Maggino.- Part I. Conceptual Issues.- Chapter 2. Can Good Life Be Measured? The dimensions and measurability of a life worth living; Frank Martela.- Chapter 3. The Subjective Object of Well-Being Studies. Well-being as the experience of being well; Mariano Rojas.- Part II.- Measurement issues.- Chapter 4. Measures of Happiness: Which to choose?; Ruut Veenhoven.- Chapter 5. Explaining the decline in subjective well-being over time in panel data; Katia Iglesias, Pascale Gazareth and Christian Suter.- Chapter 6. Reducing current limitations in order to enhance the quality of subjective well-being research: the example of mindfulness; Rebecca Shankland, Ilios Kotsou, Caroline Cuny, Lionel Strub, and Nicholas J. L. Brown.- Chapter 7. Measuring indecision in happiness studies; Stefania Capecchi.- Part III.- Comparability issues.- Chapter 8. Evalu

ating comparability of survey data on subjective wellbeing data; Inga Kristoffersen.- Chapter 9. Label scale and rating scale in subjective well-being measurement; Ester Macri.- Part IV.- Possible improvements of the measurability of subjective well-being.- Chapter 10. Culture and Well Being: A Research Agenda Designed to Improve Cross-Cultural Research Involving the Life Satisfaction Construct; Dong-Jin Lee, Grace B. Yu and Joseph Sirgy.- Chapter 11. A Reconsideration of the Easterlin Happiness-Income Paradox; Kenneth Land, Vicki Lamb & Xiaolu Zang.- Chapter 12. Methods to Increase the Comparability in Cross-National Surveys, Highlight on the Scale Interval Method and the Reference Distribution Method; Tineke de Jonge.