ISBN:
9780197512555
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (505 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Well-being-Research-Methodology
;
Quality of life-Research-Methodology
;
Social indicators
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This edited volume focuses on both conceptual and practical challenges in measuring well-being. Leveraging insights across diverse disciplines, contributors consider the philosophical and theological traditions on happiness, well-being and the good life, as well as recent empirical research on well-being and its measurement.
Abstract:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Empirical Research and Reflections on Well-Being Measurement -- 1. Measuring and Using Happiness to Support Public Policies -- 2. Reflections on the Introduction of Official Measures of Subjective Well-Being in the United Kingdom: Moving from Measurement to Use -- 3. Assessments of Societal Subjective Well-Being: Ten Methodological Issues for Consideration -- 4. Eudaimonic and Hedonic Well-Being: An Integrative Perspective with Linkages to Sociodemographic Factors and Health -- 5. A Review of Psychological Well-Being and Mortality Risk: Are All Dimensions of Psychological Well-Being Equal? -- Part 2 Conceptual Reflections on Well-Being Measurement -- 6. "Positive Biology" and Well-Ordered Science -- 7. Philosophy of Well-Being for the Social Sciences: A Primer -- 8. Defending a Hybrid of Objective List and Desire Theories of Well-Being -- 9. The Challenge of Measuring Well-Being as Philosophers Conceive of It -- 10. Human Flourishing: A Christian Theological Perspective -- 11. Comparing Empirical and Theological Perspectives on the Relationship Between Hope and Aesthetic Experience: An Approach to the Nature of Spiritual Well-Being -- Part 3 Advancing the Conversation About Measurement -- 12. The Comprehensive Measure of Meaning: Psychological and Philosophical Foundations -- 13. Empirical Relationships Among Five Types of Well-Being -- 14. Measures of Community Well-Being: A Template -- 15. Inner Peace as a Contribution to Human Flourishing: A New Scale Developed from Ancient Wisdom -- 16. Tradition-Specific Measures of Spiritual Well-Being -- Part 4 Scholarly Dialogue on the Science of Well-Being -- 17. Current Recommendations on the Selection of Measures for Well-Being.
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