title: The pursuit of happiness measurement: a psychometric model based on psychophysiological correlates.
abstract: Everyone is interested in the pursuit of happiness, but the real problem for the researchers is how to measure it. Our aim was to deeply investigate happiness measurement through biomedical signals, using psychophysiological methods to objectify the happiness experiences measurements. The classic valence-arousal model of affective states to study happiness has been extensively used in psychophysiology. However, really few studies considered a real combination of these two dimensions and no study further investigated multidimensional models. More, most studies focused mainly on self-report to measure happiness and a deeper psychophysiological investigation on the dimensions of such an experience is still missing. A multidimensional model of happiness is presented and both the dimensions and the measures extracted within each dimension are comprehensively explained. This multidimensional model aims at being a milestone for future systematic study on psychophysiology of happiness and affective states.
authors: Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Laboratory (IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano), Via Pellizza da Volpedo 41, 20149 Milan, Italy.
authors: Cipresso
authors: C
authors: Pietro
authors: Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Laboratory (IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano), Via Pellizza da Volpedo 41, 20149 Milan, Italy.
authors: Serino
authors: S
authors: Silvia
authors: Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Laboratory (IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano), Via Pellizza da Volpedo 41, 20149 Milan, Italy ; Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Largo Gemelli 1, 20123 Milan, Italy.
authors: Riva
authors: R
authors: Giuseppe
mesh_terms: D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods*