Download Free Extensive Analysis Of Gross National Happiness Index Book in PDF and EPUB Free Download. You can read online Extensive Analysis Of Gross National Happiness Index and write the review.

This paper examines the origins and use of the concept of Gross National Happiness (or subjective well-being) in the Kingdom of Bhutan, and the relationship between measured well-being and macroeconomic indicators. While there are only a few national surveys of Gross National Happiness in Bhutan, the concept has been used to guide public policymaking for the country’s various Five-Year Plans. Consistent with the Easterlin Paradox, available evidence indicates that Bhutan’s rapid increase in national income is only weakly associated with increases in measured levels of well-being. It will be important for Bhutan to undertake more frequent Gross National Happiness surveys and evaluations, to better build evidence for comovement of well-being and macroeconomic concepts such as real national income.
The author analyzes evidence and empirical research to determine which groups are the happiest in America; and offers suggestions on how the government can help individuals maximize their happiness.
The World Happiness Report reviews levels of happiness across developed and developing nations, and presents ranking tables on national and regional happiness.
These Guidelines represent the first attempt to provide international recommendations on collecting, publishing, and analysing subjective well-being data.
This book explores the practices of governance in Bhutan and how they shape the implementation of the country’s Gross National Happiness (GNH) development strategy. The author examines whether Bhutan’s innovative GNH governance framework successfully navigates competing power dynamics and generates the intended human development outcomes of Gross National Happiness. The analysis is structured around a comparison of the implementation of four GNH development policies – tourism, media, farm roads and human/wildlife conflict – and their larger implications on power, governance and the human development paradigm in Bhutan and beyond.
Unmatched in originality, breadth, and scope, The Routledge History of Happiness features chapters that explore the history, anthropology, and psychology of happiness across the globe. Through a chronological approach that ranges from the Classical and Postclassical to the twenty-first century, this volume balances intellectual-history treatments and wider efforts to deal with relevant popular culture and experience, including consumerism. It explores how and why the history of happiness has emerged in recent decades, as well as psychological and social science approaches to happiness, with a history of how relevant psychological research has unfolded. Chapters examine early cultural traditions concerning happiness, including material on Buddhist and Chinese traditions, and how they continue to influence ideas about happiness in the present day. Overall, each section emphasises wide geographical coverage, with particular attention paid to East Asia, Latin America, Europe, Russia, and Africa. The Routledge History of Happiness is of great use to all undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in the global history of emotions.
This study sought to contribute to the research literature on happiness through examining the underlying dimensions of happiness, as assessed by the Gross National Happiness Index (GNHI; Musikanski et al., 2017). In addition, this study sought to examine the relationship of those dimensions of happiness to both state and trait anxiety, as assessed by the State-Trait Anxiety Index for Adults (STAI-AD; Spielberger, Gorsuch, Lushene, Vagg, & Jacobs, 1977); this was to assess for any patterns of covariation and to generally better understand any existing relationships. Ultimately, this project had the goal of contributing to the psychometric base of the GNHI through assessing the dimensions it measures and utilizing the STAI-AD as an established criterion measure to search for any base of discriminant evidence of validity. This study was exploratory in nature; however, this researcher anticipated that the two instruments would either have low positive correlations or high inverse relationships. Relations to existing literature are examined herein. In order to address this study's purpose, data were gathered from a sample of students and staff at a Midwestern university. The overall results of the various analyses indicated a six-factor solution as the most psychologically meaningful. In addition, high inverse relationships were found between the happiness dimensions and both state and trait anxiety, which supported a base of discriminant evidence of validity of the GNHI. Practical considerations and relations to clinical and community psychology are discussed, as well as limitations and directions for future research.