BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HAPPINESS
2472 contemporary studies on subjective appreciation of life

by Ruut Veenhoven
with the assistance of: Carla den Buitelaar, Nanning Dijkstra, Tom Hagendoorn, Joke de Keizer, Thea Kroon,Tineke de Lang, Agnet van Rijswijk and Gerrit van Schuppen
RISBO, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1993, ISBN90-72597-45-1, 363 pages

CONTENTS

Part1: INTRODUCTION

section 1: Relevance context

section 2: Conceptual scope

• Definition of happiness
• Variants
• Adjacent concepts not covered

section 3: Search procedure

• Coverage
• Number of studies found

section 4: Characteristics of studies

• Discipline
• Subject matter
• Study type
• Happiness measure

section 5: Subject classification

section 6: Strong and weak points

part 2: STUDIES BY SUBJECT

1 Concept od happiness

2 Measurability of happiness

3 Indicators of happiness

4 Theories of happiness

5 Happiness and society

6 Happiness and social position

7 Happiness and intimate ties

8 Happiness and personal resources

9 Happiness and life style

10 happiness and goals/aspirations

11 Happiness and values/beliefs

12 Happiness and appreciations

13 Happiness and life history

14 Happiness in age-groups

15 Sociology of happiness ideas

16 Philosophy of happiness

17 Methodology of empirical happiness studies


Part 3: STUDIES BY AUTHOR


Later update available at http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/hap_bib/bib_fp.php