Measures of Happiness: Which to Choose?

Veenhoven, Ruut

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-61810-4_4

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“…The second is the three-point smiley face questionnaire. Using smiley faces as response options is a simple technique that is argued to be an elegant way of measuring hedonic levels of happiness [ 33 ]. This coincides with the goal of measuring “in-the-moment” emotions.…”

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Developing Effective Methods for Electronic Health Personalization: Protocol for Health Telescope, a Prospective Interventional Study

2020

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Background Existing evaluations of the effects of mobile apps to encourage physical activity have been criticized owing to their common lack of external validity, their short duration, and their inability to explain the drivers of the observed effects. This protocol describes the setup of Health Telescope, a longitudinal panel study in which the long-term effects of mobile electronic health (eHealth) apps are investigated. By setting up Health Telescope, we aim to (1) understand more about the long-term use of eHealth apps in an externally valid setting, (2) understand the relationships between short-term and long-term outcomes of the usage of eHealth apps, and (3) test different ways in which eHealth app allocation can be personalized. Objective The objectives of this paper are to (1) demonstrate and motivate the validity of the many choices that we made in setting up an intensive longitudinal study, (2) provide a resource for researchers interested in using data generated by our study, and (3) act as a guideline for researchers interested in setting up their own longitudinal data collection using wearable devices. For the third objective, we explicitly discuss the General Data Protection Regulation and ethical requirements that need to be addressed. Methods In this 4-month study, a group of approximately 450 participants will have their daily step count measured and will be asked daily about their mood using experience sampling. Once per month, participants will receive an intervention containing a recommendation to download an app that focuses on increasing physical activity. The mechanism for assigning recommendations to participants will be personalized over time, using contextual data obtained from previous interventions. Results The data collection software has been developed, and all the legal and ethical checks are in place. Recruitment will start in Q4 of 2020. The initial results will be published in 2021. Conclusions The aim of Health Telescope is to investigate how different individuals respond to different ways of being encouraged to increase their physical activity. In this paper, we detail the setup, methods, and analysis plan that will enable us to reach this aim. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) PRR1-10.2196/16471

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Developing Effective Methods for Electronic Health Personalization: Protocol for Health Telescope, a Prospective Interventional Study

2020

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“…The question was: How happy have you been feeling recently? Measuring happiness with a single item scale has been the procedure of several studies [69].…”

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Sustainability and Subjective Well-Being: How Students Weigh Dimensions

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Sustainability and Subjective Well-Being (SWB) are strongly interrelated domains. The way students view them and prioritize their dimensions should be factored into curricular developments in education for sustainability. Instruments developed to examine sustainability and SWB preferences typically use rating scale items to measure dimensions as separate entities. In contrast, the question format used in this study forces the students to rate variables in relation to each other. The sum of both SWB and sustainability variables was fixed, which means that increasing the weight of a priority automatically meant a decrease in the weight that could be allocated for the remaining elements. Two-block Partial Least Squares (PLS) modelling was used to examine how pre-defined SWB and sustainability dimensions behave when handled within the same model. It was found that those who ordered the three sustainability dimensions as Environment > Society > Economy tended to rank SWB dimensions as (Relations with others, Inner peace) > (Health, Close to nature) > (Good job, Leisure). Our research proved that the use of question formats resembling real-life resource allocation dilemmas and the treatment of SWB and sustainability as one system can yield invaluable information for the educational process.

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“…Life satisfaction is most often measured using closed question survey measures (Veenhoven 2017). These measures can be either single-item (Abdel-Khalek 2006;Cantril 1965; Commission of the European Communities 2017; OECD 2013) or multiple-item, e.g., Satisfaction With Life Scale (Diener et al 1985), Happiness-Unhappiness Scale (Andrews and Withey 1976), Gurin Scale (Gurin et al 1960), and the Happiness Measure (Fordyce 1977).…”

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“…In general, convergence exists between selfreport and other-report measures of life satisfaction (Heller et al 2006;Judge and Locke 1993;Lucas et al 1996;Nave et al 2008;Pavot et al 1991;Sandvik et al 1993;Sandvik et al 1993;Zou et al 2013). For other closed question survey measures of life satisfaction and reflections on their validity, see Veenhoven (2017Veenhoven ( , 2020.…”

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“…For example, Johnson et al (2018) and Zheng et al (2015) offered conceptual overviews on employee well-being and provide a handful of examples of validated survey instruments that can be readily used. Focusing on particular well-being constructs, other academics have reviewed existing traditional survey measures (Cooke et al 2016;Roscoe 2009;Schaufeli and Bakker 2010;Van Saane et al 2003;Veenhoven 2017), non-survey measures (Luhmann 2017;Rossouw and Greyling 2020), or both (Diener 1994(Diener , 2012. Going beyond both disciplinary and construct borders, other academics have concentrated on the promise of certain devices (e.g., wearable devices, Chaffin et al 2017;Eatough et al 2016), and measure categories for measurement of psychological constructs in general (Ganster et al 2017;Luciano et al 2017).…”

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Worker Well-Being: What it Is, and how it Should Be Measured

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King

Burger

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Worker well-being is a hot topic in organizations, consultancy and academia. However, too often, the buzz about worker well-being, enthusiasm for new programs to promote it and interest to research it, have not been accompanied by universal enthusiasm for scientific measurement. Aim to bridge this gap, we address three questions. To address the question ‘What is worker well-being?’, we explain that worker well-being is a multi-facetted concept and that it can be operationalized in a variety of constructs. We propose a four-dimensional taxonomy of worker well-being constructs to illustrate the concept’s complexity and classify ten constructs within this taxonomy. To answer the question ‘How can worker well-being constructs be measured?’, we present two aspects of measures: measure obtrusiveness (i.e., the extent to which obtaining a measure interferes with workers’ experiences) and measure type (i.e., closed question survey, word, behavioral and physiological). We illustrate the diversity of measures across our taxonomy and uncover some hitherto under-appreciated avenues for measuring worker well-being. Finally, we address the question ‘How should a worker well-being measure be selected?’ by discussing conceptual, methodological, practical and ethical considerations when selecting a measure. We summarize these considerations in a short checklist. It is our hope that with this study researchers – working in organizations, in academia or both – will feel more competent to find effective strategies for the measurement worker well-being and eventually make policies and choices with a better understanding of what drives worker well-being.

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Measures of Happiness: Which to Choose?

Cited by 30 publications

References 15 publications

Developing Effective Methods for Electronic Health Personalization: Protocol for Health Telescope, a Prospective Interventional Study

Developing Effective Methods for Electronic Health Personalization: Protocol for Health Telescope, a Prospective Interventional Study

Sustainability and Subjective Well-Being: How Students Weigh Dimensions

Worker Well-Being: What it Is, and how it Should Be Measured

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