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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions
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Psychology of emotions, motivations, and actions series.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Psychology of well-being -- Individual conceptions of well-being predict psychological and subjective well-being : beyond the big five / Ethan A. McMahan ; Maggie D. Renken ; Andre Kehn ; Martina Nitkova -- Psychological type and happiness : a study among female undergraduates in Israel / Leslie J. Francis ; Yaacov ; Mandy Robbins -- Happiness is a thing called stable extraversion : testing Eysenck's thesis among three samples in Australia / John W. Fisher ; Leslie J. Francis -- Love as the source of happiness / Satu Uusiautti ; Kaarina Määttä -- Love of life and its association with personality dimensions in college students / Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek -- Same-sex friendship, cross-sex friendship, personality and happiness : a cross-cultural comparison / Melikşah Demir ; Aysun Doğan -- pt. 2. Actions for well-being -- Happiness decreases in secondary school : a longitudinal study on early adolescents / Lotta Uusitalo-Malmivaara -- Childhood correlates of protracted life dissatisfaction : not all adversity hurts the same / Jacob M. Vigil ; Shaun Brophy ; Tammie Johnson ; Patricia Pendleton ; Lauren N. Rowell -- Are stressful jobs the price to pay for economic prosperity? / Stefano Bartolini ; Francesco Sarracino -- Job resources enhance work engagement through positive affect and meaningful work among Japanese employees / Shizuka Nakamura ; Yasumasa Otsuka -- Daily hassles and uplifts at work : perceived effects on well-being / Ana Junça Silva ; António Caetano -- Promoting happiness through urban planning / Maxine R. Crawford ; Mark D. Holder -- Happiness interventions and the efficacy of affective priming / Linden R. Timoney ; Mark D. Holder. |
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pt. 3. New insights and future perspectives for well-being -- Measurement and public policy uses of subjective well-being / André van Hoorn -- The well-being lessons on employment / Małgorzata Mikucka -- How politicians exploit and manipulate people's perceived well-being to win in the political arena and to be elected / Nadezhda Shilova -- Determinants of subjective well-being of chronically ill patients : theoretical considerations and some empirical results / Alexis Belianin ; Lev Brylev ; Olga Isupova ; Elena Kashina ; Ekaterina Lishchenko ; Maria Radionova -- Maslow's needs hierarchy and the effect of income on happiness levels / Stavros A. Drakopoulos ; Katerina Grimani -- Happiness of economic man / Katalin Martinás ; Zsolt Gilányi ; Veronika Poór ; Ágoston Reguly. |
| Summary |
"How happy are you? This naive question proved to be so powerful as to shake up social sciences and attract the attention of media and policy makers around the globe. Everybody wants to be happy. Thanks to the recent progress in measuring subjective well-being, social sciences have asserted that people's own evaluation about their well-being must be taken seriously. The opportunity of measuring happiness in a consistent and reliable way provides new impulse to a joint effort from a variety of disciplines to improve people's quality of life and potentially change the way modern societies are organized. This book provides a reference tool to understand current developments. It provides an overview of the evolving body of happiness research and draws some of its future trajectories. This book collects the contributions of scientists from psychology, sociology, economics, political science and other scientific domains sharing the quest for improving people's quality of life. Building on this expertise, the book provides a compass to orient the reader in a burgeoning literature to document, inform and suggest ideas for future research"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Happiness -- Psychological aspects.
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Happiness -- Psychological aspects. |
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Happiness. |
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Well-being.
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Well-being. |
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Human comfort.
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Human comfort. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Applied Psychology. |
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- General. |
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- Happiness. |
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- Success. |
| Added Author |
Sarracino, Francesco.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: The happiness compass New York : Nova Publishers, [2013] 9781628088175 (hardcover) (DLC) 2013030603 |
| ISBN |
9781628088212 ebook |
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1628088214 |
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9781628088175 hardcover |
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1628088176 |
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