WOMEN HAPPINESS AND WELLBEING PARADOX: A BIBLIOMETRIC REVIEW OF PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE TRENDS

Abstract

The theme of women’s happiness has been evolved over time and a significant literature in the field of psychology, economics and health highlighted mechanism of women happiness. However, there is always a need of comprehensive understanding of women happiness. This research evaluates 1497 papers from the Web of Science database to research into happiness of women’s historical and current patterns through Bibliometric analysis and project future research agenda in the domain of women happiness. We conducted citation analysis to identify influential papers, journals, institutions, and countries, while co-authorship analysis verified the interactions between authors, affiliations, and countries. Similarly, Co-citation analysis found five hotspot clusters: conceptualization of happiness, socio economic factors of happiness and well-being, health and subjective well-being, the Psychology of Parenthood and happiness, and Paradox of happiness among pregnant Women. The co-occurrence of keywords analysis also revealed five main clusters for future studies: Socioeconomic and Family Dynamics on Subjective Well-Being and Life Satisfaction across Different Life Stages, Stress, Social Support and women happiness/well-being, Gender differences affecting well-being across different cultures, Intersection of Psychological Well-Being, Socioeconomic Status, and Health Outcomes in Older Adults, Risk factors, attitudes and outcomes as a result of unintended pregnancy among women of United States. This study pioneers the use of Bibliometric analysis to explore women happiness and well-being by presenting valuable insights into the evolving landscape of this field, summarizing its hotspots and suggesting future trajectories.