Culture and Subjective Well-Being
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- Paperback
366 pages
- Release Date
24 January 2003
Summary
The question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the last decades has the study of well-being become a scientific endeavor. This book is based on the idea that we can empirically study quality of life and make cross-society comparisons of subjective well-being (SWB).A potential problem in studying SWB across societies is that of cultural relativism- if societies have different values, the members of those societies will use different criteria in eval…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262541466 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262541467 |
| Author: | Edward Diener, Eunkook M. Suh |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 366 |
| Release Date: | 24 January 2003 |
| Weight: | 703g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Well Being and Quality of Life |
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“this volume marks an important step…” Neil Levy Metapsychology
“Much more research remains to be done… before we can be confident that [subjective well-being] gives us a cross culturally valid means for judging the success of a society. That this volume marks an important step toward that goal is, however, beyond doubt.” - Neil Levy, Metapsychology
About The Author
Edward Diener
Ed Diener, Alumni Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, is past president of the International Society of Quality of Life Studies and of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. He is editor of the Journal of Happiness Studies.Eunkook M. Suh is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine.
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