Chapter 1. Towards more complexity in subjective well-being studies; Gaël Brulé and Filomena Maggino -- Part I. Conceptual Issues -- Chapter 2. Can Good Life Be Measured? The dimensions and measurability of a life worth living; Frank Martela -- Chapter 3. The Subjective Object of Well-Being Studies. Well-being as the experience of being well; Mariano Rojas -- Part II -- Measurement issues -- Chapter 4. Measures of Happiness: Which to choose?; Ruut Veenhoven -- Chapter 5. Explaining the decline in subjective well-being over time in panel data; Katia Iglesias, Pascale Gazareth and Christian Suter -- Chapter 6. Reducing current limitations in order to enhance the quality of subjective well-being research: the example of mindfulness; Rebecca Shankland, Ilios Kotsou, Caroline Cuny, Lionel Strub, and Nicholas J. L. Brown -- Chapter 7. Measuring indecision in happiness studies; Stefania Capecchi -- Part III -- Comparability issues -- Chapter 8. Evaluating comparabi lity of survey data on subjective wellbeing data; Inga Kristoffersen --  Chapter 9. Label scale and rating scale in subjective well-being measurement; Ester Macri -- Part IV -- Possible improvements of the measurability of subjective well-being -- Chapter 10. Culture and Well Being: A Research Agenda Designed to Improve Cross-Cultural Research Involving the Life Satisfaction Construct; Dong-Jin Lee, Grace B. Yu and Joseph Sirgy -- Chapter 11. A Reconsideration of the Easterlin Happiness-Income Paradox; Kenneth Land, Vicki Lamb & Xiaolu Zang -- Chapter 12. Methods to Increase the Comparability in Cross-National Surveys, Highlight on the Scale Interval Method and the Reference Distribution Method; Tineke de Jonge.