Summary

Subject:

• Results of empirical research on factors that go together with subjective enjoyment of life

Contents at 2012-1-1

• Abstracts of  about 15000 correlational research findings, observed in 1400 studies. About half as much eligible findings not yet entered.
• The abstracts contain detail about measurement and statistics. Abstracts can be searched on subject of the correlate, measurement of happiness, time and place and on methodology of the investigation.

How to cite

• Quote the entire collection as:
  R. Veenhoven (201?)
  Correlates of Happiness
  World Database of Happiness, Erasmus university Rotterdam:
  assessed on (dates) at: http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/hap_cor/cor_fp.htm
  
  
• In case you used the findings on a particular subject, add reference to the 'Finding report'. For example:
  R. Veenhoven (201?)
  Findings on happiness and Income
  World Database of Happiness, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  Assessed on (date) at: http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/hap_cor/top_sub.php?code=I1
  The internet address of separate finding reports appears at the bottom of prints.

Earlier book-versions:

• Data book of happiness. Kluwer Academic 1984, Dordrecht
• Correlates of Happiness, 7838 findings from 603 studies in 69 nations 1991-1994, RISBO, 1994, Rotterdam; ISBN 90-72598-47-8 (3 volumes). Out of print.
  

Last revision: 2012-5-1

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