Happiness across cultures : views of happiness and quality of life in non-Western cultures / Helaine Selin, Gareth Davey, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Selin, Helaine, 1946- editor.

Davey, Gareth, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Science across cultures ; 2215-1761 v. 6.

Science across cultures: the history of non-Western science, 2215-1761 ; volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Happiness.

Quality of life.

Well-being.

Human comfort.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 398 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer, [2024]

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction (Helaine Selin and Gareth Davey)

Chapter 2. Happiness in India (Robert Biswas-Diener, Louis Tay, Tithi Bhatnagar, and Ed Diener)

Chapter 3. Happiness and Wellbeing in the Dai Ethnic Minority in China

Some Observations (Gareth Davey)

Chapter 4. Between tradition and modernity: Exploring the differences in factors driving happiness in indigenous and the general population in Bangladesh (Salauddin Tauseef)

Chapter 5. Subjective Wellbeing in Kazakhstan: Evidence from the Subnational Level (Dina Sharipova and Gulnur Makulbayeva)

Chapter 6. Singapore: A Happier State of Mind (Siok Kuan Tambyah and Yuen Wei Lun)

Chapter 7. Life Satisfaction Among Driver-Partners in a Gig Economy: A Case Study From Vietnam (Le Van Hung, Nguyen Ngoc Trung)

Chapter 8. Happiness in a First People's Community in New South Wales, Australia (Daniela Heil)

Chapter 9. Indigenous American Happiness (Amoneeta Beckstein)

Chapter 10. Happiness in the Amazon: Concepts and Everyday Causes of Happiness by the Tsimane' Indigenous Peoples in the Bolivian Amazon (Victoria Reyes-Garcia)

Chapter 11. Person-Based Interpersonal Relations and Happiness in Latin America (Mariano Rojas)

Chapter 12. Happiness from Here: Conceptions and Experience of Well-Being from Ghanaian Settings Ghana (Adjeiwa Akosua Affram, Glenn Adams, Syed Muhammad Omar, Vivian Afi Dzokoto, Abraham Kenin and Annabella Osei-Tutu)

Chapter 13. Tribal Conceptions of Happiness and Wellbeing in Tanzania (Damian Boniface Sambuo)

Chapter 14. The Climatic Ecology and Geography of Happiness (Evert Van de Vliert)

Chapter 15. The Science of Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Stephen Morris)

Chapter 16. Does Happiness Differ Across Cultures? (Ruut Veenhoven)

Chapter 17. World Database of Happiness: Uses for comparing across cultures (Ruut Veenhoven)

Chapter 18. The Complex Relationship Between Morality and Happiness Around the World (Stephen Morris)

Chapter 19. The pursuit of well-being in the midst of climate change. Reflections from Mapuche youth and the embodiment of Küme Mongen (Rosario Carmona, Shayeññ Rojas and Rayen Rupayan)

Chapter 20. Unhappiness and social stress at work: South American research on workplace bullying and harassment (Elisa Ansoleaga, Silvia Franco, and Stale Einarsen)

Chapter 21. The Wellbeing of LGBTQ+ Individuals in Israel: A Life Course and Sociocultural Perspective (Geva Shenkman)

Chapter 22. Migration and Happiness: Perspectives from Bhubaneswar's Migrant Construction Workers (Ramya Ranjan Behera, Rashmi Ranjan Behera, and Rudra Prakash Pradhan)

Chapter 23. Happiness and Religion: The Islamic Context (Iffath Unissa Syed and Mohammed Shehzad Kazi)

Chapter 24. The Effect of the Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) Pandemic on the Happiness and Wellbeing on Some Countries in the Non-Western World (Melek Zubaroğlu Yanardağ, Özlem Özer and Okan Özkan)

Chapter 25. Hospitality and Wellbeing Across Cultures (Robert Biswas-Diener and Ed Diener).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 6, 2024).

ISBN:

9789402422580

9402422587

Publisher Number:

90100941101

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.