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On the trail of the gold standard for subjective well-being

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posted on 2022-11-30, 01:10 authored by Robert CumminsRobert Cummins
The absence of a 'gold standard' for subjective well-being has severely hampered the interpretation of data from empirical studies. This paper demonstrates a remarkable consistency among the results of 16 studies that have investigated 'life satisfaction' among large samples drawn from the general population. It is concluded that a population standard for 'life satisfaction' can be expressed as 75.0±2.5 percent of the measurement scale maximum score. © 1995 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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Journal

Social Indicators Research

Volume

35

Pagination

179 - 200

ISSN

0303-8300

eISSN

1573-0921

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal