Cross-national differences in happiness: Cultural measurement bias or effect of culture?
By R. Veenhoven. 2012
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The number of cross-national research studies on happiness is soaring, but doubts about the comparability of happiness between countries remain. One source of doubt is the possibility of cultural measurement bias. Another source of doubt is in the theory that happiness is culturally relative. These qualms were checked using the available data on differences in average happiness across nations. It appears that happiness can be compared across nations and used as an indicator of how well people thrive in a society.
Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Measuring 'subjective resilience': using peoples' perceptions to quantify household resilience (2015, unknown): “…and engineering (Alexander, 2013), the use of the term within the ecological sciences has been particularly influential, where ‘resilience’ is used to understand and explain the different trajectories of ecological systems as they seek equilibrium (Walker et al., 1969; Odum, 1985; Alexander, 2013).”
- Everyday Understandings of Happiness, Good Life, and Satisfaction: Three Different Facets of Well-being (2017, methodology): “However, it is also used as a synonym for life satisfaction, which is conventionally understood as a cognitive evaluation (Veenhoven 2012).”
- ‘Subjective resilience’: using perceptions to quantify household resilience to climate extremes and disasters (2016, background): “Though these present significant methodological obstacles, they have shown not to be limiting factors and do not lead to significant cross-national differences in scores in other related fields such as subjective well-being and happiness (Veenhoven 1990, 2012).”