Close Relationships and Happiness across Cultures [electronic resource] /
Demir, Melikşah.editor.
Sümer, Nebi.editor.
This volume focuses explicitly on close relationships as a reliable source for individual happiness and well-being across cultures. The work in this volume addresses theoretical issues and presents new cross-cultural data in the study of close relationships and happiness. Experts from different parts of the world provide in-depth, authoritative reviews and new findings on the relationship between various types of close bonds (e.g., intimate, marital, friendship, grandparent) and happiness in a variety of cultures. An ideal resource for researchers and students of relationship science and positive psychology, this rich, clear, and up-to-date book serves as an important reference for academicians in related fields of psychology such as cross-cultural, social, and developmental.
Responsiveness as a Key Predictor of Happiness: Mechanisms and Unanswered Questions -- Interdependent Happiness: Progress and Implications -- Parent-Child Relationships and Happiness across Cultures -- Intimate Relationships and Happiness in Asia: A Critical Review -- Close Relationships and Happiness in South America -- The Transition to Grandparenthood: A Chance to Promote Well-Being and Personal Growth -- My Relationships Are My Estate: Relationships with Kin and Voluntary Bonds as Predictors of Happiness among Emerging Adults -- Number of Close Friends and their Links to Life Satisfaction over the Great Recession in Germany -- The Relationships between Filial Piety, Self-Esteem, and Life Satsfaction among Emerging Adults in Taiwan -- Cultural Aspects of Attachment Anxiety, Avoidance and Life Satisfaction: Comparing the US and Turkey -- Reconciliation Sentiment, Forgiveness, and Mental Health among Genocide Victims -- Cultural Orientations and Well-Being in Greece: Dyad-Level Processes.
This volume focuses explicitly on close relationships as a reliable source for individual happiness and well-being across cultures. The work in this volume addresses theoretical issues and presents new cross-cultural data in the study of close relationships and happiness. Experts from different parts of the world provide in-depth, authoritative reviews and new findings on the relationship between various types of close bonds (e.g., intimate, marital, friendship, grandparent) and happiness in a variety of cultures. An ideal resource for researchers and students of relationship science and positive psychology, this rich, clear, and up-to-date book serves as an important reference for academicians in related fields of psychology such as cross-cultural, social, and developmental.
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Applied psychology.
Consciousness.
Developmental psychology.
Positive Psychology.
Quality of Life Research.
Cross Cultural Psychology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Developmental Psychology.