Global Report on Student Well-Being : Life Satisfaction and Happiness

1 Literature Review.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The Question.- 1.3 General Problems with Surveys and Interviews.- 1.4 Mood versus Stability.- 1.5 Measuring Instruments.- 1.6 Satisfaction and Happiness Explained by Domain Satisfaction and Background Conditions.- 1.7 Discrepancy Theories.- 2 Multiple Discrepancies Theory.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Seven Discrepancies.- 2.3 The Social Construction of Knowledge and Value.- 2.4 Mediators, Background Conditioners and Action.- 3 Samples, Methods and Instruments.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Samples and Methods.- 3.3 Instruments.- 4 Descriptive Statistics.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Country Totals.- 4.3 Males and Females.- 4.4 World Norms.- 5 Life Satisfaction and Happiness Explained by Domain Satisfaction and Background Conditions.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Previous Research.- 5.3 World Sample, Males and Females.- 5.4 Country Analyses.- 5.5 Prediction Success Ratios.- 5.6 Religion and Other Special Cases.- 6 Life Satisfaction and Happiness Explained by MDT.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 World Sample.- 6.3 Males and Females.- 6.4 Thirty-Eight Countries.- 6.5 Prediction Success Ratios.- 6.6 MDT with Social Support and Self-Esteem.- 7 Concluding Remarks.- References.- Appendix 1. Participating scholars.- Appendix 2. Abbreviations and definitions.- Appendix 3. Results of regressions of life satisfaction and happiness scores on 12 domain satisfaction and 9 demographic scores for university samples and combined country samples, alphabetically by country.- Appendix 4. Satisfaction and happiness with life as a whole explained by MDT, alphabetically by country and university.- Appendix 5. Satisfaction and happiness with life as a whole explained by MDT including measures of social support and self-esteem, alphabetically by countries.