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Assessing Well-Being: The Collected Works of Ed Diener (Social Indicators Research Series)
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Description for Assessing Well-Being: The Collected Works of Ed Diener (Social Indicators Research Series)
Paperback. Ed Diener is the leading research scientist studying happiness and well-being. This is the third of three volumes that collect all his major works. It analyzes the measures of well-being that are currently in use including several new and useful ones. Editor(s): Diener, Ed. Series: Social Indicators Research Series. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
The Sandvik, Diener, and Seidlitz (1993) paper is another that has received widespread attention because it documented the fact that self-report well-being scales correlate with a number of other methods of measuring the same concepts, such as with reports by knowledgeable “informants” (family and friends), expe- ence sampling measurement, and the memory for good versus bad life events. A single factor was found to underlie measures using different methods, and a n- ber of different well-being self-report measures were found to correlate with the non-self-report measures. Thus, although the self-report measures of well-being are imperfect, and can be in uenced ... Read more
The Sandvik, Diener, and Seidlitz (1993) paper is another that has received widespread attention because it documented the fact that self-report well-being scales correlate with a number of other methods of measuring the same concepts, such as with reports by knowledgeable “informants” (family and friends), expe- ence sampling measurement, and the memory for good versus bad life events. A single factor was found to underlie measures using different methods, and a n- ber of different well-being self-report measures were found to correlate with the non-self-report measures. Thus, although the self-report measures of well-being are imperfect, and can be in uenced ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Series
Social Indicators Research Series
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048123537
SKU
V9789048123537
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Ed Diener is the Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois. He received his doctorate at the University of Washington in 1974, and has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois for the past 34 years. Dr. Diener was the president of both the International Society of Quality of Life Studies and the ... Read more
Reviews for Assessing Well-Being: The Collected Works of Ed Diener (Social Indicators Research Series)
From the reviews: “Assessing Well-Being, is concerned with the measurement of life satisfaction. … Also, newly written, they point the way for future research. … Certainly academic researchers interested in well-being will find them extremely useful. … The reprinted book chapters are not so readily available, so their inclusion is a real plus. The audience should extend beyond research ... Read more