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Conversion of verbal response scales: robustness across demographic categories
De Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Moonen, Linda; Kalmijn, Wim; Van Beuningen, Jacqueline; Arends, Lidia (Springer, 2016)Happiness and life satisfaction have traditionally been measured using verbal response scales, however, these verbal scales have not kept up with the present trend to use numerical response scales. A switch from a verbal ... -
Financial distress and happiness of employees in times of economic crisis
Arampatzi, E.; Burger, M.J.; Veenhoven, R. (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)Using data for 28 European countries for the period 2008 to 2012, we examine whether employed individuals are affected by the economic crisis. We provide robust evidence that unfavourable macroeconomic conditions are ... -
Greater happiness for a greater number: did the promise of enlightenment come true?
Veenhoven, Ruut (Springer, 2017)In the eighteenth century 'Enlightened' thinkers challenged the belief that happiness exists only in Heaven. They claimed that happiness is possible in earthly life and foresaw that greater happiness would be achieved using ... -
Happy protest voters: the case of Rotterdam 1997-2009
Ouweneel, Piet; Veenhoven, Ruut (Springer, 2016)Protest parties are on the rise in several European countries. This development is commonly attributed to a growing dissatisfaction with life and associated with declining quality of life in modern society of the lowest ... -
Homogenizing responses to different survey questions on the same topic: Proposal of a scale homogenization method using a reference distribution
De Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Arends, Lidia (Springer, 2014)Survey data are often used for comparison purposes, such as comparisons across nations or comparisons over time. To be effective, this would require equivalent questions and equivalent responses options to the questions. ... -
Informed pursuit of happiness: what we should know, do know and can get to know
Veenhoven, Ruut (Springer, 2015)The rational pursuit of happiness requires knowledge of happiness and in particular answers to the following four questions: (1) Is greater happiness realistically possible? (2) If so, to what extent is that in our own ... -
Is geluk voor de dommen? Over het verband tussen intelligentie en geluk
Ruut Veenhoven (Sociaal en cultureel planbureau, 2013) -
Mental Health Care and Average Happiness: Strong Effect in Developed Nations
Touburg, Giorgio; Veenhoven, Ruut (Springer, 2015)Mental disorder is a main cause of unhappiness in modern society and investment in mental health care is therefore likely to add to average happiness. This prediction was checked in a comparison of 143 nations around 2005. ... -
Pooling time series based on slightly different questions about the same topic forty years of survey research on happiness and life satisfaction in the Netherlands
De Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Kalmijn, Wim; Arends, Lidia (Springer, 2016)Survey research on subjective wellbeing in The Netherlands started in the early 1970s. The time series happiness and life satisfaction that have emerged since then are unfortunately based on slightly different survey items ... -
Social conditions for human happiness: A review of research
Veenhoven, Ruut (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)Empirical research on happiness took off in the 1970s and accelerated after the emergence of positive psychology by 2000. Today this has resulted in some 23,000 research findings. In this article, I take stock of the ... -
Stability of boundaries between response options of response scales: does ‘very happy’ remain equally happy over the years?
De Jonge, Tineke; Kalmijn, Wim; Veenhoven, Ruut; Arends, Lidia (Springer, 2015)The differences between response scales in number and wording of response options make it hard to compare data from survey research and to perform research syntheses. A recent method that we have developed to tackle this ... -
The '10 Excess' phenomenon in responses to survey questions on happiness
Brulé, Gaël; Veenhoven, Ruut (Springer, 2017)Happiness in nations is typically measured in surveys using a single question. A common question is: 'all things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days on a scale from 0 to ... -
‘Very happy’ is not always equally happy: on the meaning of verbal response options in survey questions
De Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Arends, Lidia (Springer, 2015)Survey research is based on questioning and respondents typically answer to questions by picking one of several response options. These response options are labeled verbally with terms such as very happy or fairly happy ... -
Why are Locals Happier than Internal Migrants? The role of daily life
Hendriks, Martijn; Ludwig, K.; Veenhoven, Ruut (Springer, 2016)Several survey studies have found that internal migrants report lower levels of happiness than locals, even after accounting for socio-economic factors. Traditional global self-ratings reveal that the migrant-local ...