SA’s happiness – and misery – index

SA's happiness-and misery-index.

The Pemberton Happiness Index

The Pemberton Happiness Index (PHI) is a recently developed integrative measure of well-being that includes components of hedonic, eudaimonic, social, and experienced well-being. The PHI has been validated in several languages, but not in Portuguese. Our aim was to cross-culturally adapt the Universal Portuguese version of the PHI and to assess its psychometric properties in a sample of the Bra...

Today's misery and yesterday's happiness: Differential effects of current life-events on perceptions of past wellbeing

Measurement of Income with Time Use with Applications to Hedonic Indicators of Happiness and Misery

Investigating the Relationship between Misery Index and Patients' Out-of-pocket Payments in Iran's Health System

Background: One of the criteria for measuring the performance of governments and their survival is the degree of success in reducing and stabilizing the misery index. The misery index is obtained from the sum of inflation and unemployment. Inflation and unemployment are the most important factors affecting family's income. If the misery index is high, families will have less money to buy their ...