Ruut Veenhoven
Reidel Publishing, Dordrecht/Boston Lancaster, 1984, ISBN 90-277-1793-1, 580 pages
| Introduction | Cover, contents, acknowledgements | full text |
| Part I | Design | full text |
Part II
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Excerpts Standard descriptions of 150 reports of empirical investigations on happiness between 1911-1975. Presented in alphabetical order of author names |
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Part III
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Correlations: Contents More than 3500 correlational findings ordered in 42 main subject categories. Presented in alphabetical order |
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| Part III-A1 | Happiness and Activity | full text |
| Part III-A2 | Happiness and Affect | full text |
| Part III-A3 | Happiness and Age | full text |
| Part III-C1 | Happiness and Cognition | full text |
| Part III-C2 | Happiness and Worries, Interestst | full text |
| Part III-D1 | Happiness and Deviance | full text |
| Part III-E1 | Happiness and Education and School | full text |
| Part III-E2 | Happiness and Ethnicity | full text |
| Part III-F1 | Happiness and Family | full text |
| Part III-F2 | Happiness and Freedom | full text |
| Part III-G1 | Happiness and Gender | full text |
| Part III-H1 | Happiness and Happiness | full text |
| Part III-H2 | Happiness and Health | full text |
| Part III-H3 | Happiness and Hopes, Aspirations and Goals | full text |
| Part III-H4 | Happiness and Household | full text |
| Part III-I1 | Happiness and Income, Financial situation | full text |
| Part III-I2 | Happiness and Institutional living | full text |
| Part III-L1 | Happiness and Life history | full text |
| Part III-L2 | Happiness and Life quality | full text |
| Part III-L3 | Happiness and Life style | full text |
| Part III-L4 | Happiness and Living environment | full text |
| Part III-M1 | Happiness and Marital status | full text |
| Part III-M2 | Happiness and Marriage | full text |
| Part III-N1 | Happiness and Nation | full text |
| Part III-P1 | Happiness and Personality | full text |
| Part III-P2 | Happiness and Physical characteristics | full text |
| Part III-P3 | Happiness and Politics | full text |
| Part III-P4 | Happiness and Popularity | full text |
| Part III-P5 | Happiness and Problems, worries and fears | full text |
| Part III-R1 | Happiness and Religion | full text |
| Part III-R2 | Happiness and Retirement | full text |
| Part III-S1 | Happiness and Satisfaction with ... | full text |
| Part III-S2 | Happiness and Self image | full text |
| Part III-S3 | Happiness and Sexuality | full text |
| Part III-S4 | Happiness and Social participation | full text |
| Part III-S5 | Happiness and Socio-economic class | full text |
| Part III-S6 | Happiness and Sports | full text |
| Part III-T1 | Happiness and Time perspective | full text |
| Part III-V1 | Happiness and Values | full text |
| Part III-W1 | Happiness and War | full text |
| Part III-W2 | Happiness and Work | full text |
| Part III-X1 | Happiness and Miscellaneous factors | full text |
Part IV
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Public happiness Distribution of responses to questions about happiness in 121 surveys in 32 countries between 1940-1975 |
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| Appendix A | Technical terms used | full text |
| Appendix B | Measures of association used in one or more studies | full text |
| Appendix C | Test statistics used in one or more studies | full text |
| Appendix D | References | full text |
| Index | Author index and subject index | full text |
| Summary | full text |
An update of this work is available in the World Database of Happiness