Screen LibraryThe 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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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Dordrecht ; London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Happiness studies book series
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5702-8 |
| Summary: |
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 wellbeing studies, features selected articles published in the Journal of Happiness Studies during its first decade, which culminated in an 'impact factor' in 2011. As the introductory work in the series, it provides readers with a vital overview of the prominent issues, problems and challenges that well-being and happiness research has had to overcome since its appearance on the scientific stage. The journal's very success evinces both the high scientific quality of the research covered, and the steadily growing interest in a subject that draws responses from a vast range of epistemological aiming points, taking in economics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, education and medicine.The series of volumes following this debut publication will represent a unique contribution to the literature in their multidisciplinary focus on particularized topics. It is reckoned that this will help strengthen cross-disciplinary synergies among authors investigating the same topic, as well as whet the appetite for happiness research among professionals and experts inhabiting a variety of academic domains. This volume addresses the theory of well-being and happiness, the different research approaches now probing their features and components, and the socio-economic and cultural issues that impact on their promotion. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
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9789400757028 (electronic bk.) 9400757026 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | BF575 |
| CLC: | B842.6 |
| Contents: |
Individual Well-Being: Theory and Research -- The Exploration of Happiness: Present and Future Perspectives / Objective Explanations of Individual Well-Being / Paradoxes of Happiness / Integrating the Diverse Definitions of Happiness: A Time-Sequential Framework of Subjective Well-Being / Subjective Well-Being, Homeostatically Protected Mood and Depression: A Synthesis / Know Thyself and Become What You are: A Eudaimonic Approach to Psychological Well-Being / Living Well: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on Eudaimonia / The Multiple Determination of Well-Being: Independent Effects of Positive Traits, Needs, Goals, Selves, Social Supports, and Cultural Contexts / Orientations to Happiness and Life Satisfaction: The Full Life Versus the Empty Life / The Pleasant Life, the Engaged Life, and the Meaningful Life: What About the Balanced Life? / Socio-Economic and Cultural Issues -- The Four Qualities of Life Ordering Concepts and Measures of the Good Life / The Mixed Blessings of Material Progress: Diminishing Returns in the Pursuit of Happiness / Searching for Happiness: The Importance of Social Capital / Cultural Constructions of Happiness: Theory and Empirical Evidence / Development as Happiness: The Subjective Perception of Happiness and UNDP's Analysis of Poverty, Wealth and Development / Should Happiness-Maximization be the Goal of Government? / Greater Happiness for a Gr |