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The happiness compass : theories, actions and perspectives for well-being /
"How happy are you? This naive question proved to be so powerful as to shake up social sciences and attract the attention of media and policy makers around the globe. Everybody wants to be happy. Thanks to the recent progress in measuring subjective well-being, social sciences have asserted tha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nova Publishers,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Psychology of emotions, motivations, and actions series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Psychology of well-being
- Individual conceptions of well-being predict psychological and subjective well-being : beyond the big five / Ethan A. McMahan ; Maggie D. Renken ; Andre Kehn ; Martina Nitkova
- Psychological type and happiness : a study among female undergraduates in Israel / Leslie J. Francis ; Yaacov ; Mandy Robbins
- Happiness is a thing called stable extraversion : testing Eysenck's thesis among three samples in Australia / John W. Fisher ; Leslie J. Francis
- Love as the source of happiness / Satu Uusiautti ; Kaarina Määttä
- Love of life and its association with personality dimensions in college students / Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek
- Same-sex friendship, cross-sex friendship, personality and happiness : a cross-cultural comparison / Melikşah Demir ; Aysun Doğan
- pt. 2. Actions for well-being
- Happiness decreases in secondary school : a longitudinal study on early adolescents / Lotta Uusitalo-Malmivaara
- Childhood correlates of protracted life dissatisfaction : not all adversity hurts the same / Jacob M. Vigil ; Shaun Brophy ; Tammie Johnson ; Patricia Pendleton ; Lauren N. Rowell
- Are stressful jobs the price to pay for economic prosperity? / Stefano Bartolini ; Francesco Sarracino
- Job resources enhance work engagement through positive affect and meaningful work among Japanese employees / Shizuka Nakamura ; Yasumasa Otsuka
- Daily hassles and uplifts at work : perceived effects on well-being / Ana Junça Silva ; António Caetano
- Promoting happiness through urban planning / Maxine R. Crawford ; Mark D. Holder
- Happiness interventions and the efficacy of affective priming / Linden R. Timoney ; Mark D. Holder.
- pt. 3. New insights and future perspectives for well-being
- Measurement and public policy uses of subjective well-being / André van Hoorn
- The well-being lessons on employment / Małgorzata Mikucka
- How politicians exploit and manipulate people's perceived well-being to win in the political arena and to be elected / Nadezhda Shilova
- Determinants of subjective well-being of chronically ill patients : theoretical considerations and some empirical results / Alexis Belianin ; Lev Brylev ; Olga Isupova ; Elena Kashina ; Ekaterina Lishchenko ; Maria Radionova
- Maslow's needs hierarchy and the effect of income on happiness levels / Stavros A. Drakopoulos ; Katerina Grimani
- Happiness of economic man / Katalin Martinás ; Zsolt Gilányi ; Veronika Poór ; Ágoston Reguly.