Developing a National Index of Subjective Wellbeing: The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index

By Robert Cummins, R. Eckersley, J. Pallant, J. van Vugt, Roseanne Misajon. 2003

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Social Psychology

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Theoretical Perspectives Guiding QOL Indicator Projects (2011, methodology): “Robert Cummins and his wide network of colleagues worldwide have a program of research related to the PWBI, which proposes that satisfaction with life is directly influenced by satisfaction in seven different life domains.”
The role of human, social, built, and natural capital in explaining life satisfaction at the country level: Toward a National Well-Being Index (NWI) (2006, neutral): “Q (Cummins et al., 2001, 2003).”
A puzzle for adaptive theory (2005, background): “…events such as marriage, loss of a job, or serious injury as adapting fully in the course of time to their new circumstances (Costa et al, 1987, Cummins et al., 2003, Lykken and Tellegen, 1996, Myers 1992).1 Put simply, the proposition implies that as one’s pecuniary and nonpecuniary…”
Personal Well-being in Urban China (2009, methodology): “The PWI was first developed in Australia as part of the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index (Cummins et al., 2003).”
Measuring Social Sustainability: A Community-Centred Approach (2012, methodology): “Similarly, in line with our views that community sustainability can be treated as an extension of community wellbeing, we adopted a number of variables from the Wellbeing Index (Cummins et al. 2003).”
Subjective Wellbeing, Homeostatically Protected Mood and Depression: A Synthesis (2010, background): “Set-points for SWB are proposed to be under genetic control ( Cummins et al. 2003; Lykken and Tellegen 1996), so in this sense money cannot buy happiness.”
Subjective Well-Being of China’s Off-Farm Migrants (2010, methodology): “This demonstrates good reliability and is comparable to the findings of pre-existing studies for the adult population in Australia (Cummins et al., 2003), Hong Kong (Lau et al., 2005, 2008), urban China (Chen & Davey, 2008b; Huang & Xing, 2005; Smyth et al., 2009) and rural China (Davey et al.,…”
Subjective Wellbeing as an Affective-Cognitive Construct (2007, methodology): “It is also notable that this stability is consistent with the operation of a SWB homeostatic system (Cummins 2000; Cummins et al. 2003 ).”
Children’s Subjective Well-Being Measured Using a Composite Index: What Impacts Spanish First-Year Secondary Education Students’ Subjective Well-Being? (2013, background): “ISCWeB project tries to overcome some of the well-known limitations of the existing databases including subjective information from children, as identified for example in Hanafin and Brooks (2009). The questionnaire included information organized in eight life domains, and included several items on ”