Life Satisfaction and Subjective Well-being in a Sustainability Perspective

Sustainability is the mainstream issue of this century, while sustainable human development leans mainly on quality of life and subjective well-being for the whole of humankind. The present study starts to introduce in synthesis the concept of sustainability; it proceeds to describe fundamental tools and methodologies, adopted in international contexts, to measure subjective well-being; it then dedicates an operative paragraph to examine data from a statistical survey. The analysis explores available contents and investigates the presence of hidden, useful information not yet exploited. The underlying idea is that subjective well-being is strictly connected to social relations and, in particular, social identity.