Well-Being and Cultures: Perspectives from Positive Psychology (Hardcover, 2013)

Chapter 1. Positive Psychology and cros-cultural research; Hans Henrik Knoop and Antonella Delle Fave.- Chapter 2. VIA Character Strenghts -Research and Practice: The First 10 Years; Ryan M. Niemiec.- Chapter 3. Addressing current challenges in cross-cultural measurement of well-being: The Pemberton Happiness Index; Carmelo Vazquez and Gonzalo Hervas.- Chapter 4. Comnunal values and individualism in our era of globalization: A comparative longitudinal study of different societies; Holde Eileen Nafstad and Erland Sand Bruer.- Chapter 5. The Relation of Basic Psychological Needs, Intrinsic and Extrinsicc Life Goals and Collectivism with Subjective Well-Being; A Case in Macedonia.- Chapter 6. The Ubiquity of the Character Strenghts in African Traditional Religion: A Thematic Analysis.- Chapter 7. Culture, Environmental Psychology and Well-Being: An Emergent Theoretical Framework; Nicola Rainisio.- Chapter 8. Religion, Spirituality and Well-Being across Nations: The Eudaimonic and Hedonic Happiness Investigation; Antonella Delle Fave, Ingrid Brdar, Dianne Vella-Brodrick and Marie P. Wissing.- Chapter 9. The Relationship of South African consumers' living standards and demographic variables with their life satisfaction.- Chapter 10. Circumstances of Well-Being among Czech College Students; Iva Solcava and Vladimir Kebza.- Chapter 11. Income is Not Associated with positive Affect, Life Satisfaction, and Subjective Happiness among Japanese Workers; Yasumasa Otsuka, Masashi Hori, and Junko Kawahito.- Chapter 12. Relationships between self Serving Attributional Bias and Subjective Well-being among Danish and Spanish Women; Pilar Sanjuana and Kristine Jensen de Lopez.- Chapter 13.?Optimistic?Attributional?Style?and Parental Behaviour?in the Educational Framework: A Cross-Cultural?Perpective;?Loredana Ruxandra Gherasim,?Simona?Butnaru, Alin?Gavreliuc?and?Luminita?Mihaela Iacob.-???