overall happiness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoverallandhappiness
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overall
adverb[before noun]
adjective
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈrɔːl/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈɑːl/
in general rather than in particular, or including all the people or things in a particular group ...
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happiness
noun[U]
uk/ˈhæp.i.nəs/us/ˈhæp.i.nəs/
the feeling of ...
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(Definition ofoverallandhappinessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It also guarantees that the index has less missing values thanoverallhappiness.
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We confine ourselves to simple bivariate analyses, which allow a first assessment of the external validity of the life satisfaction index andoverallhappiness.
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This variable will be calledoverallhappinessbelow.
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As our life satisfaction index is an unweighted mean of 5-point scales, it has the same range asoverallhappiness.
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Thus, for example, the association between the concept of a person's welfare and what contributes to hisoverallhappinessis very strong.
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If we rely onoverallhappiness, however, we arrive at a different conclusion.
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The number of missing values ofoverallhappinessis quite low; the number of missing values of the index is quite high.
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It will therefore improve the chances ofoverallhappinessto win the competition with the index.
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The structure of the correlations withoverallhappinessis almost the same.
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We succeed at causing our victim to suffer but doing so increasesoverallhappiness.
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What we do not find are empirically grounded claims about the effects of certain character traits onoverallhappinessin specific environments.
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Again the correlation with the index (0.27) is much higher than the correlation withoverallhappiness(0.10).
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While the life satisfaction index displays a correlation of 0.46,overallhappinesscorrelates with 0.32 only.
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Suppose that blind charity is intrinsically good but lowersoverallhappiness.
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Even more plausibly, it could be that blind charity lowersoverallhappinessin virtually any society because it leads people to be insufficiently wary of dangerous criminals and con-artists.
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Perhaps modesty lowersoverallhappinessin virtually any society because it prevents gifted people from taking on difficult projects of which they modestly believe themselves to be incapable.
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Both correlations have the predicted sign but the correlation ofoverallhappiness(-0.09) is marginally higher than the correlation of the index (-0.07).
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James, for example, may underscore his commitment to attempting to maximizeoverallhappinesswhenever he acts.
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If a need is satisfied it may not be felt as intensely as an unsatisfied need of lesser importance in terms ofoverallhappiness.
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They realized that the outcome of the game would have a low influence on theiroverallhappiness.
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