Title :
Applicability of Gross National Happiness index to Taiwan A religious perspective
Author :
Tsai, Yu Pei ; Lee, Yi Hsuan ; Liou, Shyhnan
Author_Institution :
Institute of Creative Industries Design, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Abstract :
This article examine the applicability of the spiritual indicators in GNH, which mainly evolved in Bhutan, to Taiwan in a comparison of their religion. Although both two sites share some commonality in religious participation level, we propose to consider the multi-religious behaviors in Taiwan for the applicability. The adjustment for indicators to present the influence of multi-religious impacts, avoid the bias of Buddhism as well. We suggest that Taiwan government must adopt the impact how religious influence wellbeing while measuring the happiness in Taiwan.
Keywords :
Educational institutions; Government; Indexes; Industries; Psychology; Sociology; Statistics; Gross National Happiness; Religion;
Conference_Titel :
Orange Technologies (ICOT), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tainan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5934-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICOT.2013.6521164