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Ruut Veenhoven (born 1942) is a Dutch sociologist and a pioneer and world authority on the scientific study of happiness, in the sense of subjective enjoyment of life. His work on the social conditions for human happiness at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, has contributed to a renewed interest in happiness as an aim for public policy. He has shown that happiness can be used a reliable measure to assess progress in societies which was one of the sources of inspiration for the United Nations to adopt happiness measures as a holistic approach to development. Veenhoven is the founding director of the World Database of Happiness and a founding editor of the Journal of Happiness Studies. He has been described as "the godfather of happiness studies",〔Weiner, Eric, ''The geography of bliss: one grump's search for the happiest places in the world'', pp. 20-33, p. 20 quoted, 2008, Random House, ISBN 0552775088, 9780552775083, (google books )〕 and "a leading authority on worldwide levels of happiness from country to country",〔'Zuckerman, Phil, 'Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment'', p.7, 2008, NYU Press, ISBN 081479727X, 9780814797273, (google books )〕 whose work "earned him international acclaim".〔Robert Biswas-Diener, Ben Dean, ''Positive Psychology Coaching: Putting the Science of Happiness to Work for Your Clients'', (e-book, no page numbers, section "A Scientific History of Happiness", 2010, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0470893087, 9780470893081, (google books )〕 == Biography == Veenhoven was born in The Hague in the Netherlands in 1942. He graduated in 1962 from the Nederlands Lyceum in The Hague and received a masters degree in sociology (specializing in public management) from Erasmus University in Rotterdam (1969). Subsequently, he completed a PhD in the Social Sciences also at Erasmus, with a dissertation on "The Condition of Happiness". He was also registered as a social-sexologist (1994-2000). Between 1970 and 1990 Veenhoven was a leading advocate of abortion law reform and in promoting acceptance of voluntary childlessness in The Netherlands. From 2001 until his retirement in 2007 he taught in Rotterdam as professor of 'Social conditions for human happiness', where he currently works in the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization (Ehero). Since 1985 he has been director of the World Database of Happiness at Erasmus University Rotterdam. From 1995 until 2002 he was extraordinary professor of Humanism at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands (Piet Thoenes chair). In 1984 Veenhoven earned his doctorate on the dissertation ‘Conditions of Happiness’ that synthesized the results of 245 empirical studies on happiness. On that basis he developed the World Database of Happiness, which now covers 20,000 research findings taken from 3500 empirical investigations. Veenhoven is mentioned in the top 5% of authors in his field (December 2012). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruut Veenhoven」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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