This authoritative volume reviews the breadth of current scientific knowledge on subjective well-being (SWB): its definition, causes and consequences, measureme

Subjective well-being refers to how people experience and evaluate their lives and specific domains and activities in their lives. This information has already

The Sandvik, Diener, and Seidlitz (1993) paper is another that has received widespread attention because it documented the fact that self-report well-being scal

The quality of people’s relationships with and interactions with other people are major influences on their feelings of well-being and their evaluations of li

The question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the last decades has the study of well-being become a scientific end