Measuring Well-Being
Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 October 2021
- ISBN 9780197512531
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages622 pages
- Size 236x150x43 mm
- Weight 998 g
- Language English 151
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Short description:
This edited volume focuses on both conceptual and practical challenges in measuring well-being. Leveraging insights across diverse disciplines, 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.
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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.
Measuring Well-Being represents a tremendous advance in discussions of wellbeing. Bringing together diverse disciplines and perspectives into dialog, this book provides critical historical and conceptual background for understanding the complexities and challenges in measuring well-being. Importantly, this book also provides practical guidance for selecting tools and implementing assessment across a range of contexts.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: Empirical Research and Reflections on Well-Being Measurement
Chapter 1: Measuring and Using Happiness to Support Public Policies, John F. Helliwell
Chapter 2: Reflections on the Introduction of Official Measures of Subjective Well-Being in the UK: Moving from Measurement to Use, Paul Allin
Chapter 3: Assessments of Societal Subjective Well-Being: Ten Methodological Issues for Consideration, Louis Tay, Andrew T. Jebb, and Victoria S. Scotney
Chapter 4: Eudaimonic and Hedonic Well-Being: An Integrative Perspective with Linkages to Sociodemographic Factors and Health, Carol D. Ryff, Jennifer Morozink Boylan, and Julie A. Kirsch
Chapter 5: A Review of Psychological Well-Being and Mortality Risk: Are All Dimensions of Psychological Well-Being Equal? Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Laura D. Kubzansky, and Tyler J. VanderWeele
Part 2: Conceptual Reflections on Well-Being Measurement
Chapter 6: "Positive Biology" and Well-Ordered Science, Colin Farrelly
Chapter 7: Philosophy of Well-Being for the Social Sciences: A Primer, Guy Fletcher
Chapter 8: Defending a Hybrid of Objective-List and Desire Theories of Well-Being, William A. Lauinger
Chapter 9: The Challenge of Measuring Well-Being as Philosophers Conceive of It, Anne Baril
Chapter 10: Human Flourishing: A Christian Theological Perspective, Neil G. Messer
Chapter 11: Comparing Empirical and Theological Perspectives on the Relationship Between Hope and Aesthetic Experience: An Approach to the Nature of Spiritual Well-Being, Mark Wynn
Part 3: Advancing the Conversation about Measurement
Chapter 12: The Comprehensive Measure of Meaning: Psychological and Philosophical Foundations, Jeffrey Hanson and Tyler J. VanderWeele
Chapter 13: Empirical Relationships among Five Types of Well-Being, Seth Margolis, Eric Schwitzgebel, Daniel J. Ozer, and Sonja Lyubomirsky
Chapter 14: Measures of Community Well-Being: A Template, Tyler J. VanderWeele
Chapter 15: Inner Peace as a Contribution to Human Flourishing: A New Scale Developed from Ancient Wisdom, Juan Xi and Matthew T. Lee
Chapter 16: Tradition-Specific Measures of Spiritual Well-Being, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Katelyn N. Long, and Michael J. Balboni
Part 4: Scholarly Dialogue on the Science of Well-Being
Chapter 17: Current Recommendations on the Selection of Measures for Well-Being, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Paul Allin, Colin Farrelly, Guy Fletcher, Donald E. Frederick, Jon Hall, John F. Helliwell, Eric S. Kim, William A. Lauinger, Matthew T. Lee, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Seth Margolis, Eileen McNeely, Neil G. Messer, Louis Tay, Vish Viswanath, Dorota Woziak-Biaowolska, Laura D. Kubzansky
Chapter 18: Advancing the Science of Well-Being: A Dissenting View on Measurement Recommendations, Carol D. Ryff, Jennifer Morozink Boylan, and Julie A. Kirsch
Chapter 19: Response to "Advancing the Science of Well-Being: A Dissenting View on Measurement Recommendations," Tyler J. VanderWeele, Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, and Laura D. Kubzansky
Chapter 20: Response to Response: Growing the Field of Well-Being, Carol D. Ryff, Jennifer Morozink Boylan, and Julie A. Kirsch
Conclusion, Matthew T. Lee, Laura D. Kubzansky, and Tyler J. VanderWeele
