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An interdisciplinary scientific journal on subjective well-being.
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The Journal of Happiness Studies (JOHS) is an interdisciplinary forum on subjective well-being. The first issue appeared in 2000. Founding editors were Ed Diener, Alex Michalos, and Ruut Veenhoven. All three were members of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) as were most of the members of the editorial board.
The journal has roots in the social indicator movement and emerged as a split-off from the successful journal of “Social Indicators Research” that got ever more submissions on happiness. Alex Michalos was at that time the editor in chief of “Social Indicators Research,” which he established in 1973. The journal rooted also in the positive psychology movement that emerged at that time and in which Ed Diener was a key person. Ruut Veenhoven was founder of the World Database of Happiness and as such central in the field.
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Journal of Happiness Studies, homepage www.springeronline.com/social + sciences/wellbeing/journal/10902.
Quality of Life Research. http://www.springer.com/medicine/journal/11136 Social Indicators Research. http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/journal/11205 World Database of Happiness. http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl
Veenhoven, R., Diener, E., & Michalos, A. (2000). Editorial: What this journal is about. Journal of Happiness Studies, 1, v–viii.
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Veenhoven, R. (2014). Journal of Happiness Studies. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_4049
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