A Rationale for Including a Brief Assessment of Hedonic Well-being in Large-scale Surveys

Stone Arthur A
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Stone Arthur A: SUNY Stony Brook, arthur.stone@sunysb.edu

Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 2011, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: Subjective well-being is comprised of both evaluative (life satisfaction) and hedonic (affect) components, and there has been a call to include both aspects of well-being in large-scale surveys. This paper presents a rationale for the feasibility of including a brief measure hedonic well-being based on the measurement of yesterday’s affect and experience. It discusses issues of the distinctiveness of hedonic well-being from life satisfaction, the sensitivity of a single day’s affect, the sample sizes required for detecting group differences, and the experiential content that could also be collected to extend the value of affective reports. I conclude that a brief assessment is feasible and, in conjunction with measures of evaluative well-being, could add to our understanding of well-being in populations.

Keywords: Health; and; Retirement; Study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.2202/1558-9544.1265

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