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Culture and Well-Being: The Collected Works of Ed Diener (Social Indicators Research Series)
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Description for Culture and Well-Being: The Collected Works of Ed Diener (Social Indicators Research Series)
Paperback. Ed Diener is the leading research scientist studying happiness and well-being. This is the second of three volumes that collect all his major works. It covers well-being in and across various cultures and includes work from Diener's former students. Editor(s): Diener, Ed. Series: Social Indicators Research Series. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 464.
material boundaries capture cultural effects? The articles contained in this volume offer initial answers to most of these questions. The culture and well-being questions are of fundamental importance to understanding in the entire eld and to scienti c knowledge in the behavioral s- ences as a whole. Unless we understand what is universal and what is speci c, we cannot hope to understand the processes governing well-being. Unfortunately, our scienti c knowledge in most behavioral science elds, including the study of we- being, has been built on a narrow database drawn from westernized, industrialized nations. This means that we have ... Read more
material boundaries capture cultural effects? The articles contained in this volume offer initial answers to most of these questions. The culture and well-being questions are of fundamental importance to understanding in the entire eld and to scienti c knowledge in the behavioral s- ences as a whole. Unless we understand what is universal and what is speci c, we cannot hope to understand the processes governing well-being. Unfortunately, our scienti c knowledge in most behavioral science elds, including the study of we- being, has been built on a narrow database drawn from westernized, industrialized nations. This means that we have ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Series
Social Indicators Research Series
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048123513
SKU
V9789048123513
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Ed Diener is the Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois. He received his doctorate at the University of Washington in 1974, and has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois for the past 34 years. Dr. Diener was the president of both the International Society of Quality of Life Studies and the ... Read more
Reviews for Culture and Well-Being: The Collected Works of Ed Diener (Social Indicators Research Series)
From the reviews: “Culture and Well-Being, covers national differences in life satisfaction and the role of cultural factors in producing these differences. … I can envision its use in a college class concerned with culture and well-being. … Certainly academic researchers interested in well-being will find them extremely useful. … The audience should extend beyond research psychologists and include ... Read more