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The Exploration of Happiness Present and Future Perspectives /

This specially selected collection of landmark work from the Journal of Happiness Studies maps the current contours, and the likely future direction, of research in a field with a fast-rising profile. This volume, which inaugurates a series aiming to explore discrete topics in happiness and wellbein...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Delle Fave, Antonella. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Happiness Studies Book Series,
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Quality of Life.
Economics.
Quality of Life > Research.
Social Sciences.
Quality of Life Research.
Positive Psychology.
Economic Systems.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5702-8
Table of Contents:
  • PART I. INDIVIDUAL WELL-BEING: THEORY AND RESEARCH
  • Chapter 1. Introduction; Antonella Delle Fave.-Chapter 2. Objective Eplanations of Individual Well-Being; Jukka Varelius
  • Chapter 3. Paradoxes of Happiness; Mike W. Martin
  • Chapter 4. Integrating the Diverse Definitions of Happiness: A Time-Sequential Framework; Chu Kim-Prieto; Ed Diener Maya Tamir, Christie Scollon and Marissa Diener
  • Chapter 5. Subjective Well-Being, Homeostatically Protected Mood and Depression: A Synthesis; Robert A. Cummins
  • Chapter 6. Know Thyself and Become What You Are: A Eudaimonic Approach to Psychological Well-Being; Carol D. Ryff and Burton H. Singer
  • Chapter 7. Living Well: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on Eudaimonia; Richard M. Ryan, Veronika Huta and Edward L. Deci
  • Chapter 8. The Multiple Determination of Well-Being: Independent Effects of Positive Traits, Needs, Goals, Selves Social Support and Cultural Context; Kennon M. Sheldon and Tan H. Hoon
  • Chapter 9. Orientations to Happiness and Life Satisfaction: The Full Life versus the Empty Life; Christopher Peterson, Nansook Park and Martin E.P. Seligman
  • Chapter 10. The Pleasant Life, the Engaged Life, and the Meaningful Life: What about the Balanced Life; M. Joseph Sirgy and Jiyun Wu
  • PART II. CULTURAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES
  • Chapter 11. The Four Qualities of Life; Ruut Veenhoven
  • Chapter 12. The Mixed Blessings of Material Progress; Richard Eckersley
  • Chapter 13. Searching for Happiness: The Importance of Social Capital; Ambrose Leung, Cheryl Kier, Tak Fung, Linda Fung and Robert Sproule.- Chapter 14. Cultural Constructions of Happiness; Theory and Empirical Evidence; Yukiko Uchida, Vinai Norasakkunkit and Shinobu Kitayama
  • Chapter 15. Development as Happiness: The Subjective-Perception of Happiness and UNDP's Analysis of Poverty, Wealth and Development; Jr̲g Schimmel
  • Chapter 16. Should Happiness-Maximization be the Goal of Government?: Grant Duncan
  • Chapter 17. Greater Happiness for a Greater Number: Some Non-Controversial Options for Governments; Jan Ott.

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