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Towards a greater global understanding of wellbeing: A proposal for a more inclusive measure

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Lambert, Louise, Lomas, Tim, van de Weijer, Margot P, Passmore, Holli Anne, Joshanloo, Mohsen, Harter, Jim, Ishikawa, Yoshiki, Lai, Alden +5 more·2020·International Journal of Wellbeing
DOI 10.5502/ijw.v10i2.1037
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The science of wellbeing has come a long way from the early days of measuring wellbeing via a nation's GDP, and wellbeing measures and concepts continue to proliferate to capture its various elements.Yet, much of this activity has reflected concepts from Western cultures, despite the emphasis placed on wellbeing in all corners of the globe.To meet the challenges and opportunities arising from cross-disciplinary research worldwide, the Well-Being for Planet Earth Foundation and the Gallup World Poll have joined forces to add more culturally relevant constructs and questions to existing Gallup modules.In this white paper, we review the discussion from the international well-being summit in Kyoto, Japan (August 2019), where nine such additions were proposed and highlight why a more global view of wellbeing is needed.Overall, the new items reflect a richer view of wellbeing than life satisfaction alone and include hedonic and eudaimonic facets of wellbeing, social wellbeing, the role of culture, community, nature, and governance.These additions allow for the measurement of a broader conceptualization of wellbeing, more refined and nuanced cross-cultural comparisons, and facilitate a better examination of the causes of variation in global wellbeing.The new Gallup World Poll additions will be trialled in 2020, with additional inclusions from this summit to be made in 2021.

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  • Lambert et al. (2020) reviewed updated Gallup poll questions that move wellbeing measurement from primarily life satisfaction to include culture, community, environment, governance, and hedonic and eudaimonic aspects.

    “The challenge of finding a more inclusive understanding of wellbeing that is relevant to and accessible by a broader global audience has been addressed by Lambert, et al (2020) who review the recently updated set of questions used in the worldwide Gallup poll to measure wellbeing.The additional questions move the measurement of wellbeing from focusing primarily on life satisfaction, to include the”

    From A GROUNDED THEORY EXPLORATION OF WELLBEING FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN FORCIBLY DISPLACED AS A RESULT OF TRAUMA CAUSED BY CONFLICT, BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF PARTICIPANTS LIVING IN UGANDA (2025) · cites this paper as Lambert, et al (2020)

    The Abstract says the proposed Gallup World Poll additions broaden wellbeing measurement beyond life satisfaction to include hedonic and eudaimonic facets, culture, community, nature, and governance. But it says the additions would be trialled in 2020, and §2.1 says Gallup had yet to finalize them; the paper does not establish that they were already an updated set of questions in use. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Lambert, L., Lomas, T., van de Weijer, M. P., Passmore, H. A., Joshanloo, M., Harter, J., Ishikawa, Y., Lai, A., Kitagawa, T., Chen, D., Kawakami, T., Miyata, H., & Diener, E.
Affiliations
United Arab Emirates University (AE)
Corresponding author
Lambert, Louise
ORCID
Venue
International Journal of Wellbeing
Publisher
International Journal of Wellbeing
Published
2020-05-31
Volume
10
Issue
2
Pages
1-18
ISSN
1179-8602 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.5502/ijw.v10i2.1037
OpenAlex
W3024011057
Cited by
156
References
24
Citations by year
2026: 22 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 1
FWCI
20.33
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc-nd
Locations
  • International Journal of Wellbeing (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Pure Amsterdam UMC (submittedVersion, cc-by)
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Quality of Life Measurement
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
Keywords
well-being measurement, cross-cultural comparison, cultural relevance, Gallup World Poll, hedonic well-being, eudaimonic well-being, social well-being, governance, community, life satisfaction

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