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Happiness Across Cultures

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Table of Contents

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Happiness in India
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    Chapter 3 Happiness on the Tibetan Plateau
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    Chapter 4 Happiness and Life Satisfaction in Malaysia
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    Chapter 5 Happiness and Quality of Life in the People’s Republic of China
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    Chapter 6 Quality of Life of an Asian Metropolis in a Governance Crisis: The Case of Hong Kong
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    Chapter 7 Quality of Work Life in Macau
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    Chapter 8 Satisfaction and Societal Quality in Kazakhstan
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    Chapter 9 Singapore: A Happy State of Mind?
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    Chapter 10 Happiness in Thailand
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    Chapter 11 The Politics of Wellbeing in International Development: Research with Organic Farmers in Cambodia
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    Chapter 12 Farmers’ Happiness from Fish Production: A Case Study in Vietnam
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    Chapter 13 Constructions of Happiness and Satisfaction in the Kingdom of Tonga
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    Chapter 14 Happiness in an Aboriginal Australian Community: What It Means ‘To Be Well’ and ‘To Enjoy Life’ in Central-Western New South Wales, Australia
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    Chapter 15 Happiness in the Amazon: Folk Explanations of Happiness in a Hunter-Horticulturalist Society in the Bolivian Amazon
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    Chapter 16 Happiness in Brazil
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    Chapter 17 Happiness in Mexico: The Importance of Human Relations
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    Chapter 18 Happy Villages and Unhappy Slums? Understanding Happiness Determinants in Peru
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    Chapter 19 Life Satisfaction in Malawi
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    Chapter 20 Happiness in Nigeria: A Socio-Cultural Analysis
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    Chapter 21 Ghanaian Happiness: Global, Cultural, and Phenomenological Perspectives
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    Chapter 22 Living The Good Life: An Economic View of Happiness in South Africa
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    Chapter 23 Concepts of Wellbeing Among Organic Farmers and Plantation Workers in Madagascar
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    Chapter 24 Happiness in a Post-conflict Society: Rwanda
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    Chapter 25 Happiness in Navajos (Diné Ba’ Hózhó)
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    Chapter 26 It’s All in the Family: Wellbeing Among Inuit in Arctic Canada
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    Chapter 27 Climate, Cash, and Culturally Embedded Happiness
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    Chapter 28 Hinduism, Happiness and Wellbeing: A Case Study of Adulthood in an Oriya Hindu Temple Town
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    Chapter 29 The Science of Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
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    Chapter 30 Does Happiness Differ Across Cultures?
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (85th percentile)

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7 X users
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Title
Happiness Across Cultures
Published by
Media, January 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2700-7
ISBNs
978-9-40-072699-4, 978-9-40-072700-7, 978-9-40-079929-5
Editors

Selin, Helaine, Davey, Gareth

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 3%
United States 1 1%
Switzerland 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Unknown 63 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 34%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 18%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Researcher 6 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 13 19%
Unknown 3 4%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 26 38%
Psychology 16 24%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 8 12%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 6 9%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 July 2022.
All research outputs
#4,733,749
of 25,837,817 outputs
Outputs from Media
#7
of 19 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,720
of 253,347 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Media
#2
of 4 outputs
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