Culture and Subjective Well-Being

by Ed Diener and Eunkook M. Suh

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262541467
• ISBN13: 9780262541466
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

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The book is very informative and helpful to researchers who are into SWB and the like.

Toward a new discipline of psychology: Hedonic psychology

Ý think subjective well-being is the most important problem of individuals and societies. Nowadays, people are more expressive for shaping their own life. Besides these improvement, cultures are interacting themselves and the definete features of some cultures become the common elements of whole societies. For example outonomy in individualistic societies is found as a important value of social life by collectivistic societies. Similarly the social support and relatedness in collectivistic societies are being given high priorities by individualistic societies. As a result Ý found this book is very valuable for academicians and people.