Social Indicators of Well-Being
Withey, Stephen B. / Andrews, Frank M.
This is a study about perceptions of well-being. Its purpose is to investigate how these perceptions are organized in the minds of different groups of American adults, to find valid and efficient ways of measuring these percep tions, to suggest ways these measurement methods could be implemented to yield a series of social indicators, and to provide some initial readings on these indicators, i.e., some information about the levels of well-bei...