World Database of Happiness | Archive of research findings on subjective enjoyment of life (original) (raw)
Harvesting Happiness Research
In order to get happier, we must know what makes us happy. Policy makers must know in what kinds of societies and organizations people feel happiest. Individuals must know what ways of life tend to add most to the happiness of their kind of people.
Scientific research on happiness is booming, but its results are difficult to overview, due to terminological Babel and the growing number of studies, which is now passed more than 800 each year.
In the World Database of Happiness, we gather all the research findings on happiness in the sense of life-satisfaction. We describe these findings in a standard format and terminology on electronic ‘finding pages’ which are sorted by subject, place, time and methodology. This provides an overview of the available research findings on happiness and prepares for quantitative research synthesis. For more detail read ‘What is this World Database of Happiness?’
Size of the collections:
- 17000 Publications in Bibliography of happiness.
- 23632 Distributional findings.
- 24423 Correlational findings.