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The Human Pursuit of Well-Being

A Cultural Approach

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Ingrid Brdar

    1. Fac. Arts & Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

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  • One of the few books that brings together
  • European researchers in positive psychology
  • Presents research in Positive Psychology from different cultures

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Happiness and Well-Being

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  3. Happiness, well-being

    1. Can We Get Happier Than We Are?

      • Ruut Veenhoven
      Pages 3-14

    2. Self-serving Attributional Bias and Hedonic and Eudaimonic Aspects of Well-Being

      • Pilar Sanjuán, Alejandro Magallares, Rodolfo Gordillo
      Pages 15-26

    3. Affect Specificity as Indicators of National Well-Being: Representative Sample of Croatia

      • Zvjezdana Prizmić-Larsen, Ljiljana Kaliterna Lipovčan, Tihana Brkljačić
      Pages 27-38

    4. The Effect of Leisure Activities on Life Satisfaction: The Importance of Holiday Trips

      • Jeroen Nawijn, Ruut Veenhoven
      Pages 39-53

    5. From Flow to Optimal Experience: (Re)Searching the Quality of Subjective Experience Throughout Daily Life

      • Teresa Freire
      Pages 55-63

    6. Gender Differences in Psychological Well-Being and Distress During Adolescence

      • Dalila Visani, Elisa Albieri, Emanuela Offidani, Fedra Ottolini, Elena Tomba, Chiara Ruini
      Pages 65-70

    7. The Impact of Positive Affect: Two Weekly Assessment Studies on Benefits of Positive Emotions in Patients with a Chronic Painful Disease

      • Elin Strand
      Pages 71-81

    8. Studying Predictors of Posttraumatic Growth in Cancer Patients

      • Marta Scrignaro, Sandro Barni, Maria Luisa Bonetti, Maria Elena Magrin
      Pages 83-91

  5. Personality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. The Relationships Between Temperament, Character Strengths, and Resilience

      • Ann-Marie K. Hutchinson, Anita D. Stuart, Hester G. Pretorius
      Pages 133-144

    3. Character Strengths and Well-Being: Are There Gender Differences?

      • Ingrid Brdar, Petra Anić, Majda Rijavec
      Pages 145-156

  6. Academic Performance and Coping

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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About this book

This book brings together the latest research on positive psychology from an international cast of researchers and particularly from the growing body of European researchers. The chapters describe research and practice from diverse fields of positive psychology, covering topics such as happiness and well-being, motivation and goals, personality, academic performance and coping, measurement and interventions. The book emphasizes a cultural approach to the human pursuit of well-being. It is unique in that it presents research from a range of cultures, such as Russia, Croatia, and Egypt, in addition to ten different Western cultures. This approach helps broaden our understanding of those aspects of human experience that make life worth living in diverse cultural conditions.

The book includes well-known and new authors from the field and contains selected papers that were presented at the 4th European Conference of Positive Psychology held in 2008 in Croatia.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fac. Arts & Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

    Ingrid Brdar

About the editor

Professor at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Rijeka, Croatia. Teaching undergraduate and graduate in methodology and communication, post-graduated courses in statistics, communication and positive psychology. Editor in chief of the journal Psychological Topics (Psihologijske teme). Areas of research interest: positive psychology (intrinsic motivation and well-being, eudaimonic happiness, cross-cultural happiness), coping with stress, and social competence. Senior researcher in scientific project "Determinants of adolescents' optimal development and psychological well-being", financed by Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport. Current research collaboration with colleagues from seven countries on the project "Cross-Cultural Investigation of Eudaimonic Happiness". Chair of the Scientific Committee in organizing 4th European Conference in Positive Psychology and member of the scientific Committee of the 5th European Conference in Positive Psychology, to be held in Denmark in 2010. Member of the Management Board Committee of the European Network of Positive Psychology. Co-author of the Croatian university textbook in positive psychology.

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