Measuring Subjective Wellbeing: Recommendations on Measures for use by National Governments

By Paul Dolan, Robert Metcalfe. Journal of Social Policy, 2012

405 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Social Psychology

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In General Health Professions

1. Lindsey Jones
2. Robert Metcalfe
3. T. Tanner
4. G. MacKerron
5. Paul Dolan
6. D. Khaw
7. Margaret L. Kern
8. P. Bubeck

In Health

1. Lindsey Jones
2. T. Tanner
3. Robert Metcalfe
4. G. MacKerron
5. Paul Dolan
6. D. Khaw
7. Margaret L. Kern
8. S. Mourato

In Social Psychology

1. Lindsey Jones
2. T. Tanner
3. Robert Metcalfe
4. S. Mourato
5. G. MacKerron
6. D. Khaw
7. Paul Dolan
8. Margaret L. Kern

Citations in the corpus

• Resilience isn't the same for all: Comparing subjective and objective approaches to resilience measurement (2018, background): “…and preferences (Maxwell et al., 2015), drawing on the conceptual and methodological advances made in related fields such as measurements of risk perception (Mills et al., 2016), psychological resilience (Connor & Davidson, 2003) and subjective well-being (Diener, 2006; Dolan & Metcalfe, 2012).”
• The relationship between innovation and subjective wellbeing (2012, background): “Given the recommendations by Dolan et al. (2011) and Dolan and Metcalfe (2012) on the measures of SWB that can be collected by governments, the ONS will now have include four measures of SWB in its HIS, which includes the UK labour force survey.”
• Happy to help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actor (2018, neutral): “Subjective well-being – including happiness, life-satisfaction and positive a ff ect – refers to a range positively valenced psychological states (Dolan & Metcalfe, 2012; OECD, 2013).”
• A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the PERMA Model of Well-Being (2015, background): “According to Fiske (2002), psychologists should be aware of multiple aspects of culture when characterizing and contrasting cultures, including, subsistence and economic systems, religion, kinship systems, marriage, sex and food, and institutions and practices.”
• Measuring 'subjective resilience': using peoples' perceptions to quantify household resilience (2015, neutral): “Indeed, similar approaches have been proposed for the evaluation of national social and economic policies by collecting well-being and life evaluation data (Dolan & Metcalfe, 2012; Diener, 2000).”
• Happiness is greater in natural environments (2013, background): “Dolan and Metcalfe (2012) provide a useful summary, distinguishing three broad accounts: objective lists, in which wellbeing is the fulfilment of a fixed set of material, psychological and social needs, identified exogenously; preference satisfaction, the standard economic view, in which wellbeing c”
• The behavioral turn in flood risk management, its assumptions and potential implications (2020, background): “We therefore propose three overarching principles (Dolan & Metcalfe, 2012).”
• ‘Subjective resilience’: using perceptions to quantify household resilience to climate extremes and disasters (2016, methodology): “Indeed, similar approaches have been proposed for the evaluation of national social and economic policies by collecting well-being and life evaluation data (Dolan and Metcalfe 2012; Diener 2000).”