Abstracts
Résumé
Il y a un intérêt croissant pour l’utilisation d’indicateurs de bien-être subjectif pour le monitorage au niveau des populations et pour l’évaluation des politiques sociales. Les indicateurs collectifs de bien-être subjectif fournissent des informations sur la qualité de vie qui complètent d’autres indicateurs sociaux et économiques. Des recherches récentes mettent l’accent sur les conditions sociales qui contribuent au bien-être. Que disent les recherches sur une approche-population pour la promotion du bien-être? Une telle approche est-elle pertinente pour les psychologues? Cet article vise à donner un aperçu non exhaustif de la littérature qui traite des indicateurs de bien-être subjectif et de leurs implications possibles pour les politiques sociales et les interventions au sein de la population.
Mots-clés :
- bien-être subjectif,
- bonheur,
- approche-population,
- indicateurs sociaux,
- politiques sociales
Abstract
There is growing interest in using indicators of subjective well-being for population-level monitoring and policy evaluation. Subjective well-being indicators provide information about quality of life that is complementary to other social and economic indicators. Recent research has focused attention on the positive institutions and social conditions that contribute to subjective well-being. What does this research tell us about a population-level approach to promoting well-being? What roles can psychologists play in population-level approaches to well- being? The objective of this article is to give a selective overview of research on subjective well-being indicators and their implications for social policy and population-level interventions.
Keywords:
- subjective well-being,
- happiness,
- population-level interventions,
- social indicators,
- social policy
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