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Absence of anxiety; Absence of psychopathology; Happiness; Health-related quality of life; Liveability; Mental health indicators; Quality of life and subjective indicators of well-being; Quality of living; Stress or depression indicators; Well-being, subjective; Well-being, subjective indicators of

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There are no agreed indicators to measure or conceptualize well-being. The term indicates a positive view of life but nothing more specific. In terms of its spelling, a search of 751 papers and reports published in 2010, randomly selected within the broad area of quality of life, revealed that 464 (61.8 %) included the word “well-being” and 268 (35.8 %) included the term “well-being.” The counting of the former version is magnified by line breaks producing a hyphenated version of the word, so it can be concluded that both versions are popular. More important, very few of these papers offer a definition of the term.

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Cummins, R.A. (2014). Subjective Indicators of Well-Being. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_3224

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