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Work, Happiness, and Unhappiness (Paperback)
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Work, Happiness, and Unhappiness (Paperback)
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Award-winning psychologist Peter Warr explores why some people at
work are happier or unhappier than others. He evaluates different
approaches to the definition and assessment of happiness, and
combines environmental and person-based themes to explain
differences in people's experience. A framework of key job
characteristics is linked to an account of primary mental
processes, and those are set within a summary of demographic,
cultural, and occupational patterns. Consequences of happiness or
unhappiness for individuals and groups are also reviewed, as is
recent literature on unemployment and retirement. Although
primarily focusing on job situations, the book shows that processes
of happiness are similar across settings of all kinds. It provides
a uniquely comprehensive assessment of research published across
the world. Initial chapters explore the several meanings of
happiness and the ways in which those have been measured by
psychologists. The construct includes pleasure, satisfaction and
subjective well-being, and unhappiness has been studied in terms of
dissatisfaction, strain, anxiety, and depression. The impacts of
principal environmental features on these experiences are reviewed
through an analogy with vitamins in relation to physical
health-beneficial only up to a point. However, environmental
effects are not fixed. Influences on happiness from within the
person are examined in terms of principal thinking patterns,
personality styles, and cultural backgrounds. Differences are
explored between groups (men and women, older and younger people,
employees who are full-time and part-time, and so on), and
processes of person-environment fit are placed within an overall
framework which emphasizes the impact of variations in personal
salience. The book is written primarily for academic readers,
including senior undergraduates, graduate students, teachers, and
researchers in fields of Industrial/Organizational Psychology,
Management, Human Resources, and Labor Studies. However, the
topic's centrality in many professions makes it important also to a
wider readership.
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