INTERNATIONAL DIFFERENCES WELL-BEING C

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-973273-9
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 922 g

Reihe: Oxford Positive Psychology Series

This book draws together the latest work from scholars around the world using subjective well-being data to understand and compare well-being across countries and cultures. Starting from many different vantage points, the authors reached a consensus that many measures of subjective well-being, ranging from life evaluations through emotional states, based on memories and current evaluations, merit broader collection and analysis. Using data from the Gallup World Poll,
the World Values Survey, and other internationally comparable surveys, the authors document wide divergences among countries in all measures of subjective well-being, The international differences are greater for life evaluations than for emotions. Despite the well-documented differences in the ways
in which subjective evaluations change through time and across cultures, the bulk of the very large international differences in life evaluations are due to differences in life circumstances rather than differences in the way these differences are evaluated.

Zielgruppe

The primary audiences will include students, researchers, and policy-makers in the fields of national and international development. With respect to the disciplines most likely to find the book relevant for teaching, the top candidates would be economics, psychology, political science and sociology, especially those courses with an international comparative focus. Scholars who might find the book interesting are those in economics, policy studies, psychology, culture, and political science, and especially those interested in 1. governance, 2. economic development, 3. well-being.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diener

Diener, Ed

Kahneman, Daniel

Helliwell, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Gesundheitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Über Autor(innen)

ED: Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois, and currently the president of IPPA, the International Positive Psychology Association (2008 & 2009).DK: Nobel Prize winner (2002, Economic Science), and Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology
Emeritus at Princeton University, and a fellow of the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.JH: Arthur J.E. Child Foundation Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of British Columbia