Happiness Across Cultures Views of Happiness and Quality of Life in
Different cultures experience happiness differently. Traditionally, the West is considered materialistic, and happiness is said to come from achievement and acquisition. The East is said to be more people-oriented, where happiness is a result of deep
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SCIENCE ACROSS CULTURES: THE HISTORY OF NON-WESTERN SCIENCE VOLUME 6 HAPPINESS ACROSS CULTURES
Editor HELAINE SELIN, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA
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HAPPINESS ACROSS CULTURES Views of Happiness and Quality of Life in Non-Western Cultures Editor HELAINE SELIN Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA Co-editor GARETH DAVEY Hong Kong Shue Yan University, China
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Editor Helaine Selin School of Natural Science Hampshire College 893 West St. Amherst, Massachusetts 01002 USA [email protected]
Co-editor Gareth Davey Hong Kong Shue Yan University Counselling and Psychology Wai Tsui Crescent 10 2570 7110 Hong Kong [email protected]
ISSN 1568-2145 ISBN 978-94-007-2699-4 e-ISBN 978-94-007-2700-7 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2700-7 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011946228 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To Bob, who always makes me laugh. H.S. To my twin brother: I hope I make you proud. G.D.
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Helaine Selin and Gareth Davey
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Happiness in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Biswas-Diener, Louis Tay, and Ed Diener
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Happiness on the Tibetan Plateau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dave Webb
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Happiness and Life Satisfaction in Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ryan T. Howell, Wan Tien Chong, Colleen J. Howell, and Kurt Schwabe
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Happiness and Quality of Life in the People’s Republic of China . . . . Gareth Davey
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Quality of Life of an Asian Metropolis in a Governance Crisis: The Case of Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ming Sing
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Quality of Work Life in Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ricardo Rato and Gareth Davey
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Satisfaction and Societal Quality in Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pamela Abbott and Claire Wallace
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Singapore: A Happy State of Mind? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Siok Kuan Tambyah and Soo Jiuan Tan
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Happiness in Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rossarin Soottipong Gray
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The Politics of Wellbeing in International Development: Research with Organic Farmers in Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alice Beban
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Farmers’ Happiness from Fish Production: A Case Study in Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nguyen Minh Duc
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Constructions of Happiness and
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