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The study, assessment and design of social policies related to welfare have always focused on material indicators. However, some recent studies argue for the inclusion of subjective indicators to cater for aspects traditionally relegated to families' private lives, such as care and the perception of happiness. Taking into account this background, this paper deals with the need to go beyond welfare to well-being and aims a critical review of the scientific literature on subjective well-being and quality of life in social policies, and also of the indicators usually managed to its operationalization carried out by crossnational surveys and studies. This article deals with the need to go beyond welfare to well-being. To do this we propose a comparative study of different variables used by the OECD Better Life Index (BLI) for 2014 and the OECD family policy database (2013) with a view to analysing i) possible variations in family and social policy in European countries, ii) links between well-being and the other indicator traditionally linked to life satisfaction and subjective perception of life satisfaction, iii) the extent to which traditional indicators can measure the development of well-being and iv) ways in which these indicators could be improved. As the main result, this research remarks the need to include social policies in analyses of well-being as a key element in people’s satisfaction, recognising the perception of subjective well-being an quality of life as a political and public issue, not just a private matter. Also, as a point of discussion and further research, this paper points to the need of including the territorial factor in further research on well-being and quality of life, as it seems to be necessary for social policies to pay attention to geographic and spatial particularities on which citizens integrate and inhabit.

Quality of Life, Well-Being and Social Policies in European Countries1