Table Of ContentHAPPINESSACROSSCULTURES
SCIENCEACROSSCULTURES:
THEHISTORYOFNON-WESTERNSCIENCE
VOLUME6
HAPPINESSACROSSCULTURES
Editor
HELAINESELIN,HampshireCollege,Amherst,MA,USA
Forfurthervolumes:
http://www.springer.com/series/6504
HAPPINESS ACROSS
CULTURES
Views of Happiness and Quality of Life
in Non-Western Cultures
Editor
HELAINESELIN
HampshireCollege,Amherst,MA,USA
Co-editor
GARETHDAVEY
HongKongShueYanUniversity,China
123
Editor Co-editor
HelaineSelin GarethDavey
SchoolofNaturalScience HongKongShueYanUniversity
HampshireCollege CounsellingandPsychology
893WestSt. WaiTsuiCrescent10
Amherst,Massachusetts01002 25707110HongKong
USA [email protected]
[email protected]
ISSN1568-2145
ISBN978-94-007-2699-4 e-ISBN978-94-007-2700-7
DOI10.1007/978-94-007-2700-7
SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork
LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2011946228
©SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2012
Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorby
anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise,withoutwritten
permissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurpose
ofbeingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework.
Printedonacid-freepaper
SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com)
ToBob,whoalwaysmakesmelaugh.
H.S.
Tomytwinbrother:IhopeImakeyouproud.
G.D.
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
HelaineSelinandGarethDavey
HappinessinIndia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
RobertBiswas-Diener,LouisTay,andEdDiener
HappinessontheTibetanPlateau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
DaveWebb
HappinessandLifeSatisfactioninMalaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
RyanT.Howell,WanTienChong,ColleenJ.Howell,andKurtSchwabe
HappinessandQualityofLifeinthePeople’sRepublicofChina . . . . 57
GarethDavey
QualityofLifeofanAsianMetropolisinaGovernanceCrisis:
TheCaseofHongKong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
MingSing
QualityofWorkLifeinMacau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
RicardoRatoandGarethDavey
SatisfactionandSocietalQualityinKazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
PamelaAbbottandClaireWallace
Singapore:AHappyStateofMind? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
SiokKuanTambyahandSooJiuanTan
HappinessinThailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
RossarinSoottipongGray
The Politics of Wellbeing in International Development:
ResearchwithOrganicFarmersinCambodia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
AliceBeban
Farmers’ Happiness from Fish Production: A Case Study
inVietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
NguyenMinhDuc
vii
viii Contents
ConstructionsofHappinessandSatisfactionintheKingdom
ofTonga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
HeatherE.Young-LeslieandSeanE.Moore
HappinessinanAboriginalAustralianCommunity:WhatIt
Means‘ToBeWell’and‘ToEnjoyLife’inCentral-Western
NewSouthWales,Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
DanielaHeil
HappinessintheAmazon:FolkExplanationsofHappinessina
Hunter-HorticulturalistSocietyintheBolivianAmazon . . . . . . . . . 209
VictoriaReyes-GarcíaandTsimane’AmazonianPanelStudy(TAPS)
HappinessinBrazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
GaziIslam
HappinessinMexico:TheImportanceofHumanRelations . . . . . . . 241
MarianoRojas
HappyVillagesandUnhappySlums?UnderstandingHappiness
DeterminantsinPeru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
MònicaGuillen-RoyoandJackelineVelazco
LifeSatisfactioninMalawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
TimHinksandSimonDavies
HappinessinNigeria:ASocio-CulturalAnalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
AaronA.Agbo,ThaddeusC.Nzeadibe,andChukwuedozieK.Ajaero
GhanaianHappiness:Global,Cultural,andPhenomenological
Perspectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
VivianAfiAbuiDzokoto
Living The Good Life: An Economic View of Happiness
inSouthAfrica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
JeffreyT.Bookwalter
ConceptsofWellbeingAmongOrganicFarmersandPlantation
WorkersinMadagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
CathyRozelFarnworth
HappinessinaPost-conflictSociety:Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
PamelaAbbottandClaireWallace
HappinessinNavajos(DinéBa’Hózhó) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
AngelaA.A.Willeto
It’sAllintheFamily:WellbeingAmongInuitinArcticCanada. . . . . 387
MichaelJ.KralandLoriIdlout
Climate,Cash,andCulturallyEmbeddedHappiness . . . . . . . . . . . 399
EvertVandeVliert
Contents ix
Hinduism, Happiness and Wellbeing: A Case Study
ofAdulthoodinanOriyaHinduTempleTown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
UshaMenon
TheScienceofHappiness:ACross-CulturalPerspective . . . . . . . . . 435
StephenG.Morris
DoesHappinessDifferAcrossCultures? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
RuutVeenhoven
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
Contributors
PamelaAbbott SchoolofSocialScience,UniversityofAberdeen,Aberdeen,
UK;InstituteofPolicyAnalysisandResearch-Rwanda,Kigali,Rwanda,
[email protected]
AaronA.Agbo ExperimentalandSocialPsychologyUnit,Departmentof
Psychology,UniversityofNigeria,410001Nsukka,EnuguState,Nigeria,
[email protected]
ChukwuedozieK.Ajaero DepartmentofGeography,UniversityofNigeria,
410001Nsukka,EnuguState,Nigeria,[email protected]
AliceBeban CornellUniversity,Ithaca,NY,USA,[email protected]
RobertBiswas-Diener PortlandStateUniversity,Portland,OR,USA;TheCentre
ofAppliedPositivePsychology,Coventry,UK,[email protected]
JeffreyT.Bookwalter DepartmentofEconomics,UniversityofMontana,
Missoula,MT59812,USA,[email protected]
WanTienChong DepartmentofPsychology,SanFranciscoStateUniversity,
SanFrancisco,CA,USA,[email protected]
GarethDavey CounsellingandPsychologyDepartment,HongKongShueYan
University,HongKong,[email protected]
SimonDavies PovertyReductionandEconomicManagementUnit,WestAfrica,
WorldBank,Washington,DC,USA,[email protected]
EdDiener UniversityofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign,IL,USA;TheGallup
Organization,Washington,DC,USA,[email protected]
NguyenMinhDuc DepartmentofFisheriesManagementandDevelopment,
NongLamUniversity,HochiminhCity,Vietnam,[email protected];
[email protected]
VivianAfiAbuiDzokoto VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity,Richmond,VA,
USA,[email protected]
xi
