Subjective well-being : measuring happiness, suffering, and other dimensions of experience /

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Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press, [2013]
Description:	xiii, 188 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Well-being. Quality of life. Social indicators. Social surveys. Political planning. Policy sciences. Policy sciences. Political planning. Quality of life. Well-being.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9962072

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Other authors / contributors:	Stone, Arthur A. editor. Mackie, C. J., editor. National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Measuring Subjective Well-Being in a Policy-Relevant Framework, issuing body. National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics, issuing body. National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, issuing body.
ISBN:	9780309294461 0309294460
Notes:	Includes bibliographic references.
Summary:	Could gathering data on subjective well-being help governments and organizations develop policies that better serve the needs of their constituents? This book explores that question, focusing on the policy value of gauging "experienced well-being": peoples' moment to moment and day to day feelings of pleasure, contentment, pain and other emotions and sensations. This report identifies areas of policy and practice where such data would be useful -- ranging from city planning to custody policy to end-of-life care -- and discusses additional aspects of subjective well-being that are important for policy makers to consider. This report also assesses approaches for gathering these data, identifies surveys that should collect them on an experimental basis, and discusses methodological questions that remain.

Table of Contents:

Summary
1. Introduction
1.1. Overview of Subjective Weil-Being
1.1.1. Evaluative Well-Being
1.1.2. Experienced Well-Being
1.1.3. Eudaimonic Well-Being
1.2. Study Charge
1.3. Motivation for Study
1.4. Report Audience, Report Structure
2. Conceptualizing Experienced (Or Hedonic) Well-Being
2.1. Distinctiveness of Experienced and Evaluative Well-Being
2.2. Dimensions of ExWB
2.2.1. Negative and Positive Experiences-Selecting Content for Surveys
2.2.2. Eudaimonia
2.2.3. Other Candidate Emotions and Sensations for Measures of ExWB
3. Measuring Experienced Well-Being
3.1. Ecological Momentary Assessment
3.2. Single-Day Measures
3.2.1. End-of-Day Measures
3.2.2. Global-Yesterday Measures
3.2.3. Appropriateness and Reliability of Single-Day Assessments of ExWB
3.3. Reconstructed Activity-Based Measures
3.3.1. Comparing DRM with Momentary Approaches
3.3.2. Time-Use Surveys
4. Additional Conceptual and Measurement Issues
4.1. Cultural Considerations
4.2. Aging and the Positivity Effect
4.3. Sensitivity of ExWB Measures to Changing Conditions
4.4. Adaptation, Response Shift, and the Validity of ExWB Measures
4.5. Survey Contextual Influences
4.6. Question-Order Effects
4.7. Scale Effects
4.8. Survey-Mode Effects
5. Subjective Well-Being and Policy
5.1. What Do SWB Constructs Predict?
5.2. What Questions Can Be Informed by SWB Data: Evaluating Their Uses
5.2.1. The Health Domain
5.2.2. Applications Beyond the Health Domain
6. Data Collection Strategies
6.1. Overall Approach
6.1.1. The Measurement Ideal
6.1.2. Next Steps and Practical Considerations
6.2. How to Leverage and Coordinate Existing Data Sources
6.2.1. SWB in Health Surveys and Other Special-Purpose Surveys
6.2.2. Taking Advantage of ATUS
6.3. Research and Experimentation-The Role of Smaller-Scale Studies, Nonsurvey Data, and New Technologies
References
Appendixes
A. Experienced Well-Being Questions and Modules from Existing Surveys
B. The Subjective Well-Being Module of the American Time Use Survey: Assessment for Its Continuation
C. Biographical Sketches of Panel Members

Subjective well-being : measuring happiness, suffering, and other dimensions of experience /

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