National accounts of subjective well-being are being considered and adopted by nations. In
order to be useful for policy deliberations, the measures of life satisfaction must be …

The absence of a 'gold standard'for subjective well-being has severely hampered the
interpretation of data from empirical studies. This paper demonstrates a remarkable …

Since its introduction in 1985, the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS; Diener, Emmons,
Larsen, & Griffin,) has been heavily used as a measure of the life satisfaction component of …

Purpose The present paper assessed the validity of single-item life satisfaction measures by
comparing single-item measures to the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS)—a more …

An earlier study, based on data from Western countries, concluded that an international
standard for life satisfaction could be stated as 75±2.5 percentage of the measurement scale …

National accounts of subjective well-being should be used to assess the various facets of
citizen's well-being such as life satisfaction, trust in others, positive emotions, meaning and …

A substantial amount of research has been conducted using a variety of methodological
approaches to determine what influences life satisfaction. The bottom-up theory considers …

Much of what we know about individuals' subjective well-being is based on the findings of a
great number of representative surveys that asked respon dents to repori how happy and …

Abstract Diener (2000) proposed that National Accounts of Well-Being be created to
complement existing economic and social indicators that reflect the quality of life in nations …

The aim of this investigation was to explain theimpact of people's self-reported health on
theirlevels of satisfaction with their health, and theimpact of these things plus satisfaction …