Measuring Well-being Across Europe: Description of the ESS Well-being Module and Preliminary Findings
Measuring Well-being Across Europe: Description of the ESS Well-being Module and Preliminary Findings
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DOI：
10.1007/s11205-008-9346-0
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
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3.1
通讯作者：
Wahrendorf, Morten
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作者：
Huppert, Felicia A.;Marks, Nic;Wahrendorf, Morten
通过使用客观指标--主要是经济和社会指标--来判断一个社会的成功已经成为一种习惯。然而，在大多数发达国家，收入、教育和健康的增加可以说并没有带来相应的幸福感或生活满意度的增长。虽然在调查中采用主观衡量全球幸福感或生活满意度已经学到了很多，但最近在制定个人和社会幸福的高质量主观衡量方面取得的重大进展尚未得到充分利用。本文介绍了一套福利指标的发展情况，这些指标包括在第三轮欧洲社会调查中。这一幸福单元旨在评估欧洲国家在促进其公民的个人和社会福祉方面取得的成功。除了提供对特定领域的衡量标准的更好理解，例如与家庭、工作和收入相关的衡量标准，幸福模块的设计还认识到，在这一领域的进步要求我们超越关注人们感觉如何(幸福、快乐、满意)的衡量标准，而更关注他们的运作状况。这也将重点从相对短暂的幸福状态转移到更可持续的幸福衡量标准上。ESS福利模块是创建一套与政策有关的国家福利账户的首批系统尝试之一。
It has become customary to judge the success of a society through the use of objective indicators, predominantly economic and social ones. Yet in most developed nations, increases in income, education and health have arguably not produced comparable increases in happiness or life satisfaction. While much has been learned from the introduction of subjective measures of global happiness or life satisfaction into surveys, significant recent progress in the development of high-quality subjective measures of personal and social well-being has not been fully exploited. This article describes the development of a set of well-being indicators which were included in Round 3 of the European Social Survey. This Well-being Module seeks to evaluate the success of European countries in promoting the personal and social well-being of their citizens. In addition to providing a better understanding of domain-specific measures, such as those relating to family, work and income, the design of the Well-being Module recognises that advancement in the field requires us to look beyond measures which focus on how people feel (happiness, pleasure, satisfaction) to measures which are more concerned with how well they function. This also shifts the emphasis from relatively transient states of well-being to measures of more sustainable well-being. The ESS Well-being Module represents one of the first systematic attempts to create a set of policy-relevant national well-being accounts.