International Differences in Well-Being (Hardcover)

This book draws together the latest work from scholars around the world using subjective well-being data to understand and compare well-being across countries and cultures. Starting from many different vantage points, the authors reached a consensus that many measures of subjective well-being, ranging from life evaluations through emotional states, based on memories and current evaluations, merit broader collection and analysis. Using data from the Gallup World Poll, the World Values Survey, and other internationally comparable surveys, the authors document wide divergences among countries in all measures of subjective well-being, The international differences are greater for life evaluations than for emotions. Despite the well-documented differences in the ways in which subjective evaluations change through time and across cultures, the bulk of the very large international differences in life evaluations are due to differences in life circumstances rather than differences in the way these differences are evaluated.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxford Positive Psychology Series
Release date:	April 2010
First published:	March 2010
Authors:	Ed Diener • Daniel Kahneman • John Helliwell
Dimensions:	241 x 163 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	489
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-973273-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Promotions
LSN:	0-19-973273-6
Barcode:	9780199732739

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