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Overview

Bruce Headey is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and works primarily within the social sciences, focusing on areas such as psychology and health professions. Their research spans several subfields, including political science and international relations, social psychology, general health professions, applied psychology, and genetics.

The main topics covered in their work include social policy and reform studies, employment and welfare studies, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, cultural differences and values, behavioral health and interventions, human-animal interaction studies, and zoonotic diseases and public health.

Recent papers by Bruce Headey include:

  • Alternative Recipes for Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Five World Regions (2021, Applied Research in Quality of Life)
  • Evidence that dog ownership protects against the onset of disability in an older community-dwelling Japanese population (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Index (2023, Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks)

They have published books through Edward Elgar Publishing, including the 2023 title Western Welfare Capitalisms in Good Times and Bad.

Frequent co-authors in Bruce Headey's work include:

  • Ruud Muffels
  • John Quiggin
  • Gisela Trommsdorff
  • Gert G. Wagner
  • Yu Taniguchi

Their work is distributed across publication venues such as Applied Research in Quality of Life, PLoS ONE, and Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their research interests.

Best Publications

  • Personality, life events, and subjective well-being: Toward a dynamic equilibrium model.

    Bruce Headey;Alexander Wearing

  • The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

    Robert Goodin;Bruce W Headey;Ruud J Muffels;Henk-Jan Dirven

  • The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being

    Bruce Headey;Mark Wooden

  • Dimensions of mental health: Life satisfaction, positive affect, anxiety and depression.

    Bruce W. Headey;Jonathan Kelley;Alex J. Wearing

  • Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Theories of Subjective Well-Being

    Bruce Headey;Ruut Veenhoven;Alex Wearing

  • Police stress and well-being: Integrating personality, coping and daily work experiences

    Peter M. Hart;Alexander J. Wearing;Bruce Headey

  • The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: Frontmatter

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  • Reasons for welfare

    Robert E. Goodin;Bruce Headey;Ruud Muffels;Henk-Jan Dirven

  • Money Does not Buy Happiness: Or Does It? A Reassessment Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption

    Bruce Headey;Ruud Muffels;Mark Wooden

  • Top-down versus bottom-up theories of subjective well-being

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  • Life Goals Matter to Happiness: A Revision of Set-Point Theory.

    Bruce Headey

  • Long-running German panel survey shows that personal and economic choices, not just genes, matter for happiness.

    Bruce Headey;Ruud Muffels;Gert G. Wagner

  • Health Benefits and Health Cost Savings Due to Pets: Preliminary Estimates from an Australian National Survey

    Bruce Headey

  • MODELS OF WELL-BEING AND ILL-BEING

    Bruce Headey;Elsie Holmstrom;Alexander Wearing

  • PETS AND HUMAN HEALTH IN GERMANY AND AUSTRALIA: NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL RESULTS

    Bruce Headey;Markus M. Grabka

  • The Set Point Theory of Well-Being Has Serious Flaws: On the Eve of a Scientific Revolution?

    Bruce Headey;Bruce Headey

  • Well-being and ill-being: Different dimensions?

    Bruce Headey;Elsie Holmström;Alexander Wearing

  • Authentic Happiness Theory Supported by Impact of Religion on Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Analysis with Data for Germany *

    Bruce Headey;Juergen Schupp;Ingrid Tucci;Gert G. Wagner

  • Subjective well-being: A stocks and flows framework.

    Bruce Headey;Alexander Wearing

  • The sense of relative superiority — Central to well-being

    Bruce Headey;Alex Wearing

  • Assessing police work experiences: Development of the police daily hassles and uplifts scales

    Peter M. Hart;Alexander J. Wearing;Bruce Headey

  • The Set-Point Theory of Well-Being: Negative Results and Consequent Revisions

    Bruce Headey

  • The impact of life events and changes in domain satisfactions on well-being

    Bruce Headey;Elsie Holmström;Alexander Wearing

  • Pet Ownership is Good for Your Health and Saves Public Expenditure Too: Australian and German Longitudinal Evidence

    Bruce Headey;Markus Grabka;Jonathan Kelley;Prasuna Reddy

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander J. Wearing
Alexander J. Wearing University of Melbourne
Gisela Trommsdorff
Gisela Trommsdorff University of Konstanz
Ruut Veenhoven
Ruut Veenhoven Erasmus University Rotterdam

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