World Database of Happiness

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 34 - Trang 299-313 - 1995
Ruut Veenhoven1
1Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Tóm tắt

The World Database of Happiness is an ongoing register of research on subjective appreciation of life. Its purpose is to make the wealth of scattered findings accessible, and to create a basis for further meta-analytic studies. The database involves four sections: The World Database of Happiness is available in books and on computer files. Computer files are free available through Internet on the anonymous ftp-server of Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands. Ftp-address: ftp.eur.nl (pub/database.happiness).

Tài liệu tham khảo

Harding, S.: 1985, ‘Values and the nature of psychological well-being’, in M. Abrams, D. Gerard and N. Timms (eds.) Values and Social Change in Britain (McMillan, London, UK). Veenhoven, R.: 1984a, Conditions of Happiness (Reidel (Kluwer), Dordrecht, Netherlands). Veenhoven, R.: 1984b, Databook of Happiness (Reidel, Dordrecht, Netherlands). Veenhoven, R. (ed.): 1989, How Harmful is Happiness? Consequences of Enjoying Life or Not (Universitaire Pers Rotterdam, The Hague, Netherlands). Veenhoven, R. 1993, ‘Bibliography of happiness, 2472 contemporary studies on subjective appreciation of life’, RISBO, series Studies in Social and Cultural Transformation nr. 1, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. Veenhoven, R. 1993, ‘Happiness in nations, subjective appreciation of life in 56 nations 1946–1992’, RISBO, series Studies in Social and Cultural Transformation nr 2, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. Veenhoven, R. 1994 (in press), ‘Correlates of happiness’, RISBO, series Studies in Social and Cultural Transformation nr. 3, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.