Module 2: Paradoxes of Happiness
  Lecture 4: Quality of Life: Evidence from Surveys
 

QUESTIONS AND EXERCISE

  • Why do you need to measure happiness?

  • Discuss the merits and demerits of subjective happiness scale developed by Lyubomirsky and Lepper.

  • If you have to develop a scale of well-being and happiness for urban migrants what items will you consider?

  • What are the alternatives to the study of happiness, if you are not satisfied with surveys?

  • Which items you may like to delete from the WHQ if you are going to conduct a happiness survey in India?

  • Which items you may like to add to the WHQ if you are going to conduct a happiness survey in India?

  • What do the statistical relationships between happiness and socio-economic factors reveal?

  • Distinguish between WHI and WHQ .

  • What is the meaning of reliability of a scale?

  • Using the internet material identify a few major findings of WVS.