Is the Study of Happiness a Worthy Scientific Pursuit?

By J. Norrish, D. Vella‐Brodrick. 2008

99 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/de2f876184c1809a3ee658725d9d6b08e415c229

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In Applied Psychology

1. Katsunori Sumi
2. D. Vella‐Brodrick
3. T. Hansen
4. K. Page

In Clinical Psychology

1. Katsunori Sumi
2. D. Vella‐Brodrick
3. T. Hansen
4. B. Slagsvold
5. K. Page

In Social Psychology

1. Katsunori Sumi
2. K. Page
3. D. Vella‐Brodrick
4. T. Hansen
5. T. Moum
6. B. Slagsvold
7. Jing Jian Xiao

Citations in the corpus

• Childlessness and Psychological Well-Being in Midlife and Old Age: An Examination of Parental Status Effects Across a Range of Outcomes (2009, background): “Essential to eudaimonic well-being (i.e., predictors) are engagement in challenging and meaningful activities, especially those activities that require substantial effort and that incorporate a concern for others and ‘‘the greater good’’ ( Norrish and Vella-Brodrick 2008; Ryan and Deci 2001; Ryff 1”
• The ‘What’, ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of Employee Well-Being: A New Model (2009, background): “Diener et al. 2006; Headey 2006, 2008; Huppert 2005; Norrish and Vella-Brodrick (2008) ).”
• Reliability and Validity of Japanese Versions of the Flourishing Scale and the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (2013, background): “The high level of interest in well-being research has yielded a variety of well-being measures (Keyes and Magyar-Moe 2003; Norrish and Vella-Brodrick 2008; Veenhoven 2013).”