This is such a good idea, I wonder why they didn’t come up with it a long time ago.
Google has a new search engine for searching academic literature online.
www.scholar.google.com
Doing a search for “Well Being” on Google Scholar, returned 61,600 results. The top results returned include:
Psychological Well-Being in Adult Life.CD Ryff – Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1995 – Blackwell Synergy … Being (Aldine, Chicago, 1969); E. Diener, Subjective well-being, Psychological Bulletin,95, 542-575 (1984); MP Lawton, The varities of wellbeing, in Emotion … Cited by 81 – Web Search
[CITATION] Scales for the measurement of some work attitudes and aspects of psychological well-beingP Warr, J Cook, T Wall – Journal of Occupational Psychology, 1979 Cited by 235 – Web Search
[CITATION] Relation of agency and communion to well-being: Evidence and potential explanationsVS Helgeson – Psychological Bulletin, 1994 Cited by 116 – Web Search – BL Direct
[CITATION] The measurement of well-being and other aspects of mental healthP Warr – Journal of Occupational Psychology, 1990 Cited by 102 – Web Search
… patient centred care of diabetes in general practice: impact on current wellbeing and future disease … – group of 6 »AL Kinmonth, A Woodcock, S Griffin, N Spiegal, MJ … – British Medical Journal – bmj.bmjjournals.com … General Practice. Randomised controlled trial of patient centred care of diabetesin general practice: impact on current wellbeing and future disease risk. … Cited by 117 – Web Search – BL Direct
Factors affecting the emotional wellbeing of the caregivers of dementia sufferers – group of 3 »RG Morris – The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1988 – bjp.rcpsych.org … Royal College of Psychiatrists. Factors affecting the emotional wellbeing ofthe caregivers of dementia sufferers. RG Morris, LW Morris … Cited by 67 – Web Search
Sports participation and emotional wellbeing in adolescents. – group of 2 »A Steptoe, N Butler – Lancet, 1996 – ncbi.nlm.nih.gov … Sports participation and emotional wellbeing in adolescents. Steptoe A,Butler N. Department of Psychology, St George’s Hospital … Cited by 55 – Web Search – BL
Doing the same search on the normal google delivers 23,000,000 hits with the following under the top ranked items:
Well Being
WellBeing of Women is the only national charity funding vital research into all aspects of women’s reproductive health.www.wellbeingofwomen.org.uk/ – 18k – Cached – Similar pages
WellBeing
WellBeing.com.au Australia – natural health directory, courses and seminars, natural health articles and more. Yoga, Acupuncture, Bowen Therapy, …www.wellbeing.com.au/ – 43k – Cached – Similar pages
A manifesto for wellbeing
We often think of wellbeing as happiness, but it is more than that. … But for most Australians more money would add little to their wellbeing. …www.wellbeingmanifesto.net/ – 20k – Cached – Similar pages
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Information on Australian Government mental health and wellbeing and suicide prevention initiatives, including beyondblue – the National Depression …health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/Mental+Health+and+Wellbeing-1 – 17k – Cached – Similar pages
Well Being Journal
Well Being Journal: a health and wellness journal covering alternative medicine, natural healing, nutrition, herbs, and spiritual medicine.www.wellbeingjournal.com/ – 9k – Cached – Similar pages
Australian Centre on Quality of Life – The Australian Unity Index …
The AustralianUnity Wellbeing Index is designed to fill this niche. … “The Wellbeing of Australians – Impact of the Impending Iraq War” …acqol.deakin.edu.au/index_wellbeing/index.htm – 17k – Cached – Similar pages
Nice, very nice!