Happiness Across Cultures

<p>INTRODUCTION.- 1: HAPPINESS IN INDIA: Ed Diener, Robert Biswas-Diener and Louis Tay.- 2: HAPPINESS ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU: Dave Webb.- 3:  HAPPINESS AND LIFE SATISFACTION IN MALAYSIA: Ryan T. Howell, Wan Tien Chong, Colleen J. Howell, &amp; Kurt Schwabe.- 4: HAPPINESS AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Gareth Davey.- 5: QUALITY OF LIFE OF AN ASIAN METROPOLIS IN A GOVERNANCE CRISIS: THE CASE OF HONG KONG: Ming Sing.- 6: QUALITY OF WORK LIFE IN MACAU: Ricardo Rato and Gareth Davey.-  7: SATISFACTION AND SOCIETAL QUALITY IN KAZAKHSTAN: Pamela Abbott and Claire Wallace.-  8: SINGAPORE: A HAPPY STATE OF MIND: Siok Kuan Tambyah.-  9: HAPPINESS IN THAILAND: Rossarin Soottipong Gray.- 10: THE POLITICS OF WELLBEING IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: RESEARCH WITH ORGANIC FARMERS IN CAMBODIA: Alice Beban.- 11: FARMERS' HAPPINESS FROM FISH PRODUCTION; A CASE STUDY IN VIETNAM: Nguyen Minh Duc.- 12: CONSTRUCTIONS OF HAPPINESS AND SATISFACTION IN THE KINGDOM OF TONGA: Sean E. Moore and Heather E. Young Leslie.- 13: HAPPINESSIN AN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY; WHAT IT MEANS ‘TO BE WELL’ AND ‘TO ENJOY LIFE’ IN CENTRAL-WESTERN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA: Daniela Heil.- 14: HAPPINESS IN THE AMAZON: FOLK EXPLANATIONS OF HAPPINESS IN A HUNTER-HORTICULTURALIST SOCIETY IN THE BOLIVIAN AMAZON: Victoria Reyes-García and Tsimane’ Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS).- 15: HAPPINESS IN BRAZIL: Gazi Islam.- 16:  HAPPINESS IN MEXICO: THE IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONS: Mariano Rojas.- 17: HAPPY VILLAGES AND UNHAPPY SLUMS? UNDERSTANDING HAPPINESS DETERMINANTS IN PERU: Mònica Guillen-Royo and Jackeline Velazco.- 18: LIFE SATISFACTION IN MALAWI: Tim Hinks and Simon Davies.- 19: HAPPINESS IN NIGERIA: A SOCIO-CULTURAL ANALYSIS: Aaron Agbo, Thaddeus Nzeadibe and Chukwuedozie Ajaero.- 20: GHANAIAN HAPPINESS: GLOBAL, CULTURAL, AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES: Vivian Afi Abui Dzokoto.- 21: LIVING THE GOOD LIFE: AN ECONOMIC VIEW OF HAPPINESS IN SOUTH AFRICA: Jeffrey Bookwalter.- 22: CONCEPTS OF WELLBEING AMONG ORGANIC FARMERS AND PLANTATION WORKERS IN MADAGASCAR: Cathy Rozel Farnworth.- 23: HAPPINESS INA POST-CONFLICT SOCIETY: RWANDA: Pamela Abbott and Claire Wallace.-  24: HAPPINESS IN NAVAJOS (DINÉ BA’ HÓZHÓ): Angela Willeto.- 25: IT’S ALL IN THE FAMILY: WELL-BEING AMONG INUIT IN ARCTIC CANADA: Michael Kral and Lori Idlout.- 26: CLIMATE, CASH, AND CULTURALLY EMBEDDED HAPPINESS: Evert Van de Vliert.- 27: HINDUISM, HAPPINESS AND WELLBEING: A CASE STUDY OF ADULTHOOD IN AN ORIYA HINDU TEMPLE TOWN: Usha Menon.- 28: THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS: A CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE: Stephen G. Morris.-  DOES HAPPINESS DIFFER ACROSS CULTURES?: Ruut Veenhoven.- INDEX.                        </p>