同行評審的《幸福研究雜志》致力于對主觀幸福感的科學理解。覆蓋范圍包括對生活的認知評價(如生活滿意度)和對生活的情感享受(如情緒水平)。除了對整體生活的評價有貢獻外，該雜志還接受了關(guān)于工作滿意度等生活領(lǐng)域以及諸如人生意義感知等生活方面的論文。《幸福研究雜志》為幸福研究的兩大主要傳統(tǒng)提供了一個論壇:1)對美好生活的思辨性反思，2)對主觀幸福感的實證研究。他的貢獻涵蓋了廣泛的學科領(lǐng)域:尤其是阿爾法科學，哲學;貝塔科學，特別是關(guān)于幸福和幸福的生物學和生理學相關(guān)的研究;和伽瑪科學，不僅包括心理學和社會學，還包括經(jīng)濟學。該雜志致力于幸福的概念化、測量、普及、解釋、評價、想象和研究。

The peer-reviewed Journal of Happiness Studies is devoted to scientific understanding of subjective well-being. Coverage includes both cognitive evaluations of life such as life-satisfaction, and affective enjoyment of life, such as mood level. In addition to contributions on appraisal of life-as-a-whole, the journal accepts papers on such life domains as job-satisfaction, and such life-aspects as the perceived meaning of life.The Journal of Happiness Studies provides a forum for two main traditions in happiness research: 1) speculative reflection on the good life, and 2) empirical investigation of subjective well-being. Contributions span a broad range of disciplines: alpha-sciences, philosophy in particular; beta-sciences, especially investigations about the biological and physiological correlates of happiness and well-being; and gamma-sciences, including not only psychology and sociology but also economics.The journal addresses the conceptualization, measurement, prevalence, explanation, evaluation, imagination and study of happiness.