Methodological Challenges: From the First to the Second Wave of the World Love Index

• Published in: Social sciences (Basel) Vol. 13; no. 7; p. 334
• Main Authors: Cataldi, Silvia, Floridi, Federica, Palmieri, Marco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.07.2024
• Subjects: Altruism; Culture; Decision making; Emotions; Empathy; Indexes; Love; Methodological problems; methodology; Open data; Operational definitions; secondary data analysis; social love; Society; Sociology; transnational data; Well being; World Love Index

This article is methodological in nature, addressing and discussing the challenges the research team encountered in constructing a new international well-being index called the World Love Index. This index represents the first quantitative operationalization of the concept of Social Love, which seek...