Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities

✍ Scribed by Matthew T. Lee (editor), Laura D. Kubzansky (editor), Tyler J. VanderWeele (editor)

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 625
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited volume focuses on both conceptual and practical challenges in measuring well-being. Leveraging insights across diverse disciplines, including psychology, economics, sociology, statistics, public health, theology, and philosophy, contributors consider the philosophical and theological traditions on happiness, well-being and the good life, as well as recent empirical research on well-being and its measurement. The chapters review what is known empirically about how different measures of well-being relate to each other and considers various arguments for and against use of specific measures of well-being in different contexts. Further, the volume includes discussion of how a synthesis of existing research helps us make sense of the proliferation of different measures and concepts within the field, while also foregrounding the insights gained by investigations and conceptual thinking occurring across diverse disciplines.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Measuring Well-Being
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
1. Measuring and Using Happiness to Support Public Policies
2. Reflections on the Introduction of Official Measures of Subjective Well-​Being in the United Kingdom: Moving from Measurement to Use
3. Assessments of Societal Subjective Well-​Being: Ten Methodological Issues for Consideration
4. Eudaimonic and Hedonic Well-​Being: An Integrative Perspective with Linkages to Sociodemographic Factors and Health
5. A Review of Psychological Well-​Being and Mortality Risk:  Are All Dimensions of Psychological Well-​Being Equal?
6. “Positive Biology” and Well-​Ordered Science
7. Philosophy of Well-​Being for the Social Sciences: A Primer
8. Defending a Hybrid of Objective List and Desire Theories of Well-​Being
9. The Challenge of Measuring Well-​Being as Philosophers Conceive of It
10. Human Flourishing: A Christian Theological Perspective
11. Comparing Empirical and Theological Perspectives on the Relationship Between Hope and Aesthetic Experience: An Approach to the Nature of Spiritual Well-​Being
12. The Comprehensive Measure of Meaning: Psychological and Philosophical Foundations
13. Empirical Relationships Among Five Types of Well-​Being
14. Measures of Community Well-​Being: A Template
15. Inner Peace as a Contribution to Human Flourishing:  A New Scale Developed from Ancient Wisdom
16. Tradition-​Specific Measures of Spiritual Well-​Being
17. Current Recommendations on the Selection of Measures for Well-​Being
18. Advancing the Science of Well-​Being: A Dissenting View on Measurement Recommendations
19. Response to “Advancing the Science of Well-​Being:  A Dissenting View on Measurement Recommendations”
20. Response to Response: Growing the Field of Well-​Being
Conclusion
Name Index
Subject Index