Current recommendations on the selection of measures for well-being

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Measures of well-being have proliferated over the past decades. Very little guidance has been available about which measures to use in particular contexts. This chapter provides a series of recommendations, based on the present state of knowledge and the existing measures available, of which measures might be preferred in which contexts. The recommendations came out of an interdisciplinary workshop on the measurement of well-being and are shaped around the number of items that can be included in a survey and also based on the differing potential contexts and purposes of data collection such as, for example, government surveys, multiuse cohort studies, or studies specifically about psychological well-being. The recommendations are not intended to be definitive but instead to stimulate discussion and refinement and provide guidance to those relatively new to the study of well-being.

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VanderWeele, T. J., Trudel-Fitzgerald, C., Allin, P. V., Farrelly, C., Fletcher, G., Frederick, D. E., … Kubzansky, L. D. (2021). Current recommendations on the selection of measures for well-being. In Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities (pp. 501–520). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197512531.003.0018

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