Culture and Subjective Well-Being

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Edward Diener (University of Illinois), Eunkook M. Suh, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Claremont Graduate University)

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MIT Press
24 January 2003

Social groups; Social, group or collective psychology

Series: Well Being and Quality of Life

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 evaluating the success of their society. By examining, however, such aspects of SWB as whether people believe they are living correctly, whether they enjoy their lives, and whether others important to them believe they are living well, SWB can represent the degree to which people in a society are achieving the values they hold dear.

The contributors analyze SWB in relation to money, age, gender, democracy, and other factors. Among the interesting findings is that although wealthy nations are on average happier than poor ones, people do not get happier as a wealthy nation grows wealthier.

Edited by: Edward Diener (University of Illinois), Eunkook M. Suh
Series edited by: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Claremont Graduate University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 703g
ISBN: 9780262541466
ISBN 10: 0262541467
Series: Well Being and Quality of Life
Pages: 366
Publication Date: 24 January 2003
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Culture and Subjective Well-Being

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