Assessing Well-Being

1. Introduction – Measuring Well-Being: Collected Theory and Review Works
Ed Diener

2. Temporal Stability and Cross-Situational Consistency of Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Responses
Ed Diener, Randy J. Larsen

3. Assessing Subjective Well-Being: Progress and Opportunities
Ed Diener

4. The Evolving Concept of Subjective Well-Being: The Multifaceted Nature of Happiness
Ed Diener, Christie Napa Scollon, Richard E. Lucas

5. Review of the Satisfaction With Life Scale
William Pavot, Ed Diener

6. Subjective Well-Being: The Convergence and Stability of Self-Report and Non-Self-Report Measures
Ed Sandvik, Ed Diener, Larry Seidlitz

7. Measuring Positive Emotions
Richard E. Lucas, Ed Diener, Randy J. Larsen

8. Experience Sampling: Promises and Pitfalls, Strength and Weaknesses
Christie Napa Scollon, Chu-Kim Prieto, Ed Diener

9. Life-Satisfaction Is a Momentary Judgment and a Stable Personality Characteristic: The Use of Chronically Accessible and Stable Sources
Ulrich Schimmack, Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi

10. Happiness is the Frequency, Not the Intensity, of Positive Versus Negative Affect
Ed Diener, Ed Sandvik, William Pavot

11. Income’s Differential Influence on Judgments of Life Versus AffectiveWell-Being
Ed Diener, Daniel Kahneman, Raksha Arora, James Harter, William Tov

12. New Measures of Well-Being
Ed Diener, Derrick Wirtz, Robert Biswas-Diener, William Tov, Chu Kim-Prieto, Dong-won Choi, Shigehiro Oishi

13. Conclusion: Future Directions in Measuring Well-Being
Ed Diener

Keywords: Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Social Policy, Economic Policy, Psychometrics