Social Indicators Research covers many topics, which each have their own history. Happiness research is one of these included topics. Longstanding interest in happiness revived since the 1960s together with the emergence of the social indicator movement. Happiness became a prominent issue in the movement and the movement has fostered the development of happiness research in several ways.

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Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement
Erasmus School of Economics

Veenhoven, R. (2017). Co-development of Happiness Research: Addition to “Fifty Years After the Social Indicator Movement”. Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement, 1–7. doi:10.1007/s11205-017-1554-z