ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2010, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (7): 1087-1095.

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Experienced Utility-Based Well-being and Its Measure

LIU Teng-Fei;XU Fu-Ming;SUN Yan;ZHANG Jun-Wei;JIANG Duo   

  1. (1 School of Psychology, HuaZhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China)
    (2 Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China)
  • Received:2010-05-24 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2010-07-15 Published:2010-07-15
  • Contact: SUN Yan

Abstract: Experienced well-being is an integration of multiple emotional responses measured by moment-based assessment which is based on experienced utility. The concept of experienced well-being proposed by Kahneman and his collaborators mainly stems from their rediscovery and interpretation for utility. Experienced utility moment-based assessment and hypotheses for measuring moment utility constitute the theoretical basis of experienced well-being. The methods for measuring experienced well-being mainly include experience sampling method and day reconstruction method. Based on these two methods, national well-being accounts and national time accounts analyze more directly how people distribute their time and how they experience emotions in daily life. Furthermore, the concept of experienced well-being and its measurement offer concrete, real and referable scientific data for evaluating and making public policies.

Key words: experienced well-being, experienced utility, day reconstruction method, public policy