Social needs are universal and their fulfilment is considered to be a prerequisite for happiness and well-being. Currently, the assertion that income or revenue alone are insufficient to explain inequality of well-being and happiness in the evaluation of social policies is becoming ever more widespread in the social sciences. Therefore, numerous quantitative metrics mostly based on univariable scales have been created over the last sixty years to measure well-being, quality of life, or happiness. Based on a systematic review, this article compiles several measurement instruments of happiness and human well-being, and reflects that all of them measure and concentrate more on hedonic than eudaimonic happiness. Finally, it contemplates the need to develop a multidimensional model based on the sociology of emotions that includes social relationships and the complexity of human happiness, focusing more on eudaimonic rather than hedonic happiness.

社会需求是普遍的，满足这些需求是幸福和幸福的前提。当前，仅靠收入或收入不足以解释社会政策评估中幸福感和幸福感的不平等这一论断在社会科学中变得越来越普遍。因此，在过去的60年中，已经建立了许多主要基于单变量量表的量化指标，以衡量幸福感，生活质量或幸福感。在系统回顾的基础上，本文汇编了几种幸福和人类福祉的测量工具，反映出它们所有的测量和关注都更多地集中在享乐而不是情感上的幸福。最后，