Editors:
- Contributions from international scholars from diverse disciplines and cultures
- Explores countries from across the world and focuses on special themes of happiness
- Insightful compliation for researchers who study happiness
Part of the book series: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science (SACH, volume 6)
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Bangladesh happiness
- Brazil happiness
- Buddhism happiness
- China happiness
- Hong Kong happiness
- India happiness
- Japan happiness
- Kazakhstan happiness
- Malawi happiness
- Malaysia happiness
- Peru happiness
- Singapore happiness
- South Africa happiness
- South Korea happiness
- Zen and happiness
- anthropology and happiness
- cross-cultural happiness
- feminism
- gender studies
- happiness and islam
- happiness studies
- hedonism
- interpersonal mistrust
- non-western cultures
- philosophy of happiness
- psychology and happiness
- quality of life
- relationships and happiness
- subjective well-being
- unhappiness
- well-being
Editors and Affiliations
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Hampshire College, Amherst, USA
Helaine Selin
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, Counselling and Psychology, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Gareth Davey
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Happiness Across Cultures
Book Subtitle: Views of Happiness and Quality of Life in Non-Western Cultures
Editors: Helaine Selin, Gareth Davey
Series Title: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2700-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2699-4Published: 29 February 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9929-5Published: 16 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2700-7Published: 28 February 2012
Series ISSN: 1568-2145
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1761
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 504
Topics: Regional and Cultural Studies, Cross Cultural Psychology, Non-Western Philosophy, Quality of Life Research