Happiness and Subjective Well-Being

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• Diener, E. (Ed.). (2009). Culture and Well-Being: The Collected Works of Ed Diener. Germany: Springer Netherlands.
• Diener, E., & Suh, E. M. (Eds.). (2003). Culture and Subjective Well-Being. United Kingdom: MIT Press.
• Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Tay, L. (2018). Advances in subjective well-being research. Nature human behaviour, 2(4), 253-260.
• Diener, E., Suh, E. M., Lucas, R. E., & Smith, H. L. (1999). Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress. Psychological bulletin, 125(2), 276.
• Diener, E. (2009). Assessing Well-Being: The Collected Works of Ed Diener. Germany: Springer Netherlands.
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• Dolan, P., Peasgood, T., & White, M. (2008). Do we really know what makes us happy? A review of the economic literature on the factors associated with subjective well-being. Journal of economic psychology, 29(1), 94-122.
• Eid, M., & Larsen, R. J. (Eds.). (2008). The Science of Subjective Well-Being. United Kingdom: Guilford Publications.
• Fabian, M. (2018). Racing from Subjective Well-Being to Public Policy: A Review of the Origins of Happiness. SSRN.
• Heintzelman, S. J., & Tay, L. (2017). Subjective well-being: Payoffs of being happy and ways to promote happiness. Positive Psychology, 7-28.
• Keverne, B., Huppert, F. A., & Baylis, N. (Eds.). (2005). The Science of Well-being. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
• Klug, H. J., & Maier, G. W. (2015). Linking goal progress and subjective well-being: A meta-analysis. Journal of Happiness Studies, 16, 37-65.
• Kubzansky, L. D., Lee, M. T., & VanderWeele, T. J. (Eds.). (2021). Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
• Land, K. C., Michalos, A. C. (2011). Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research. Netherlands: Springer Netherlands.
• Linley, P. A., Maltby, J., Wood, A. M., Osborne, G., & Hurling, R. (2009). Measuring happiness: The higher order factor structure of subjective and psychological well-being measures. Personality and individual differences, 47(8), 878-884.
• López Ulloa, B. F., Møller, V., & Sousa-Poza, A. (2013). How does subjective well-being evolve with age? A literature review. Journal of Population Ageing, 6, 227-246.
• Maddux, J. E. (Ed.). (2017). Subjective Well-Being and Life Satisfaction. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
• Maggino, F., & Brulé, G. (Eds.). (2017). Metrics of Subjective Well-Being: Limits and Improvements. Germany: Springer International Publishing.
• Mandal, M. K., Patnaik, P., Chetri, S., & Dutta, T. (Eds.). (2023). Understanding Happiness: An Explorative View. Germany: Springer Nature Singapore.
• Maricchiolo, F., Mosca, O., Lauriola, M., & Krys, K. (2021). From ME to WE: A literature review on happiness and well-being focused on relational factors and social interconnectedness. Psicologia sociale, 16(1), 3-25.
• Michalos, A. C. (2014). Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Germany: Springer Netherlands.
• National Research Council. (2014). Subjective well-being: Measuring happiness, suffering, and other dimensions of experience.
• Ngamaba, K. H., Panagioti, M., & Armitage, C. J. (2017). How strongly related are health status and subjective well-being? Systematic review and meta-analysis. The European Journal of Public Health, 27(5), 879-885.
• OECD. (2013). OECD Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being. United States: OECD Publishing.
• Okun, M. A., Stock, W. A., Haring, M. J., & Witter, R. A. (1984). Health and subjective well-being: A meta-analyis. The International journal of aging and human development, 19(2), 111-132.
• Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2001). On happiness and human potentials: A review of research on hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. Annual review of psychology, 52(1), 141-166.
• Sirgy, M. J. (2012). The Psychology of Quality of Life: Hedonic Well-Being, Life Satisfaction, and Eudaimonia. Netherlands: Springer Netherlands.
• Stone, A. A., & Mackie, C. (Eds.). (2013). Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Suffering, and Other Dimensions of Experience. United States: National Academies Press.
• Tay, L., Batz, C., Parrigon, S., & Kuykendall, L. (2017). Debt and subjective well-being: The other side of the income-happiness coin. Journal of Happiness Studies, 18, 903-937.
• Veenhoven, R. (2011). Happiness: Also known as “life satisfaction” and “subjective well-being”. In Handbook of social indicators and quality of life research (pp. 63-77). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.
• Verduyn, P., Ybarra, O., Résibois, M., Jonides, J., & Kross, E. (2017). Do social network sites enhance or undermine subjective well‐being? A critical review. Social Issues and Policy Review, 11(1), 274-302.

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