Well-Being for Public Policy

By E. Diener, Richard E. Lucas, U. Schimmack, John F. Helliwell. 2009

746 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Social Psychology

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In General Health Professions

1. Arnold B. Bakker
2. Evangelia Demerouti
3. Wilmar B. Schaufeli
4. Josette M. P. Gevers
5. E. Diener
6. Toon W. Taris
7. Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh
8. Margaret L. Kern

In Health

1. E. Diener
2. Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh
3. S. Oishi
4. Louis Tay
5. John F. Helliwell
6. Martin E. P. Seligman
7. Carol Graham
8. Milena Nikolova

In Social Psychology

1. E. Diener
2. Arnold B. Bakker
3. Martin E. P. Seligman
4. Evangelia Demerouti
5. S. Oishi
6. Louis Tay
7. Wilmar B. Schaufeli
8. John F. Helliwell

Citations in the corpus

• Effect of Changes in Living Conditions on Well-Being: A Prospective Top–Down Bottom–Up Model (2011, background): “An alternative explanation for adaptation effects in life-satisfaction judgments is aspiration spiral theory (Diener et al. 2009; Dolan and White 2007; Stutzer 2004).”
• Mobile Therapy: Case Study Evaluations of a Cell Phone Application for Emotional Self-Awareness (2010, background): “Public policy campaigns have called for extending psychotherapy to the large numbers of people who typically do not have access to such services [6,7].”
• Subjective well-being related to satisfaction with daily travel (2011, background): “Yet, there is an increasing interest in understanding how SWB is affected by context-specific factors such as various forms of consumption as well as quality of public goods including commuting services (Diener and Seligman 2004; Diener et al. 2009).”
• The Interplay of Well-being and Resilience in Applying a Social-Ecological Perspective (2012, background): “Wellbeing is gaining increased traction in public policy (e.g., in the UK) and in international environment and development discourse (e.g., Stiglitz et al. 2008, Diener et al. 2009).”
• Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being (2018, neutral): “Although SWB researchers typically emphasize the need for assessing both affective and cognitive components (Busseri & Sadava, 2011), a case could be made that emotional experiences may not provide an optimal measure of overall quality of life (see Diener et al., 2009, for a discussion).”
• World happiness report (2012, background): “Diener (2011), Diener et al. (2009).”
• Viewpoint: Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being (2010, positive): “…using panel data (Lucas 2007) confirms that while partial adaptation generally occurs in the case of spinal cord injuries, the long-term effects on life satisfaction are significant and large, equal to 1.2 standard deviations for those with the most severe disabilities (Diener et al. 2009, 105).”
• Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being (2010, methodology): “This increases the reliability of life satisfaction relative to measures of mood as indicators of overall well-being (Diener et al 2009, pp. 84-93).”
• Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-Being (2015, background): “Furthermore, they are increasingly used in public policy and economic analyses and have become a part of official statistical gathering efforts in countries such as the United Kingdom (Diener et al., 2009; Di Tella & MacCulloch, 2006; O'Donnell, 2013; Stone & Mackie, 2014).”
• A Scientific Review of the Remarkable Benefits of Happiness for Successful and Healthy Living (2013, neutral): “We outline in detail the case for national accounts of well-being in Diener et al. (2009).”