instead of Oxford happiness questionnaire, is there any instrument that can measure happiness in accurate way?
You may want to take a look at Li et al Ecological Economics. The paper presents a methodology and indicators and an application to air pollution in China
You can also use Subjective Happiness scale. Please check the following references as attached.
- Lyubomirsky, S., & Lepper, H. S. (1999). A measure of subjective happiness: Preliminary reliability and construct validation. Social indicators research, 46(2), 137-155.
- Kashdan, T. B. (2004). The assessment of subjective well-being (issues raised by the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire). Personality and individual differences, 36(5), 1225-1232.
http://sonjalyubomirsky.com/subjective-happiness-scale-shs/
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Thanks for the mention. Good call on passing on the Oxford happiness questionnaire. As I wrote in my article listed above this is a sloppy measure. Sonja's 4-item subjective happiness scale is far superior.
Its always important to read the items and not stop at the arbitrary marketing name that researchers give a scale.
I fully agree with Theo Dijkstra that Veenhoven is one of the pioneers in the area, that he has contributed several important papers.
The paper by Dolan et al is also important
Ruut Veenhoven is an incredible researcher - but he doesn't have an assessment instrument that addresses this question, or does he?
If the question was - who are the amazing happiness researchers that should received more attention? Ruut would be up at the top.
Of note, I did not downgrade anything and I didn't even know it was a feature. But I can say that to make it as a scientist or in any profession, one needs to be receptive and resilient to feedback - negative or positive. Its one of the greatest predictors of success in science.
Just a quick response - in this new world of social media, we are going to get likes and dislikes. Somehow we have to figure out not to take it personally. Some people are going to be anonymous because of power dynamics (e.g., grad student commenting on a distinguished professor's remarks).
no disrespect intended. just a comment.
Diener, E. D., Emmons, R. A., Larsen, R. J., & Griffin, S. (1985). The satisfaction with life scale. Journal of personality assessment, 49(1), 71-75. This scale had been widely used by many scholars to measure happiness.
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