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，該雜志還接受了關于工作滿意度等生活領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域:尤其是阿爾法科學，哲學;貝塔科學，特別是關于幸福和幸福的生物學和生理學相關的研究;和伽瑪科學，不僅包括心理學和社會學，還包括經濟學。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.