4-Volume Set Happiness and Well-being CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN PSYCHOLOGY Edited and with a new introduction by Felicia Huppert, University of Cambridge, UK and P. Alex Linley, University of Warwick, UK Questions about the meaning, purpose, and pursuit of happiness and well-being have been addressed by thinkers since ancient times but over the past decade or so there has been a tremendous upsurge of scholarly interest in the subject. This renewed interest has come from a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, and economics. The field has, in particular, been galvanized by the advent of the positive psychology movement at the turn of the century. Especially in the United States, but also in the UK and on continental Europe, Australia, and parts of Asia, research and courses in positive psychology are thriving. Harvard University’s positive psychology course, for example, is currently the most popular offering in the college’s history. Governments and international organizations are also increasingly engaged by notions of well-being and happiness. The World Health Organization has recently redefined ‘health’ to include ‘psychological well-being’ and many national policy-makers have begun to recognize that measuring a nation’s success by traditional economic values alone no longer suffices and that we need also urgently to understand how people experience the quality of their lives. Beyond the academy and government, there is also immense interest in the promotion and examination of happiness and well-being in many professional disciplines such as coaching, education, clinical psychology, and community-building. As work on happiness and well-being flourishes as never before, this new title in Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Psychology, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject’s vast literature and the continuing explosion in research output. Co-edited by two leading scholars, Happiness and Well-being is a four- volume collection of classic and contemporary contributions. Together, the four volumes provide a one-stop resource for all interested researchers, students, and policy-makers to gain a thorough understanding of the field, the variety of approaches, and where thinking on happiness and well-being is today. With comprehensive introductions to each volume, newly written by the editors, which place the collected material in its historical, intellectual, and practical context, Happiness and Well-being is an essential work of reference and a vital research tool. Routledge Major Works Routledge June 2010 234x156: 1,600pp Set Hb: 978-0-415-47363-7
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4-Volume Set
Happiness and Well-beingCRITICAL CONCEPTS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Edited and with a new introduction by Felicia Huppert, University of Cambridge, UK and P. Alex Linley, University of Warwick, UK
Questions about the meaning, purpose, and pursuit of happiness andwell-being have been addressed by thinkers since ancient times but overthe past decade or so there has been a tremendous upsurge of scholarlyinterest in the subject. This renewed interest has come from a variety ofacademic disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, and economics.The field has, in particular, been galvanized by the advent of the positivepsychology movement at the turn of the century. Especially in the UnitedStates, but also in the UK and on continental Europe, Australia, and partsof Asia, research and courses in positive psychology are thriving. HarvardUniversity’s positive psychology course, for example, is currently the mostpopular offering in the college’s history.
Governments and international organizations are also increasinglyengaged by notions of well-being and happiness. The World HealthOrganization has recently redefined ‘health’ to include ‘psychologicalwell-being’ and many national policy-makers have begun to recognizethat measuring a nation’s success by traditional economic values alone nolonger suffices and that we need also urgently to understand how peopleexperience the quality of their lives.
Beyond the academy and government, there is also immense interest inthe promotion and examination of happiness and well-being in manyprofessional disciplines such as coaching, education, clinical psychology,and community-building.
As work on happiness and well-being flourishes as never before, this newtitle in Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Psychology,meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of thesubject’s vast literature and the continuing explosion in research output.Co-edited by two leading scholars, Happiness and Well-being is a four-volume collection of classic and contemporary contributions. Together,the four volumes provide a one-stop resource for all interestedresearchers, students, and policy-makers to gain a thoroughunderstanding of the field, the variety of approaches, and where thinkingon happiness and well-being is today. With comprehensive introductionsto each volume, newly written by the editors, which place the collectedmaterial in its historical, intellectual, and practical context, Happiness andWell-being is an essential work of reference and a vital research tool.
Part 1—Concepts: What is Meant by Happiness and Well-being?
Hedonic Approaches: The Pursuit of Pleasure
1. R. Schoch, ‘Maximise your Pleasure’, The Secrets of Happiness (ProfileBooks, 2006), pp. 27–47.
2. E. Diener, ‘Subjective Well-being’, Psychological Bulletin, 1984, 95, 3,542–75.
3. E. Diener et al., ‘Subjective Well-being: Three Decades of Progress’,Psychological Bulletin, 1999, 125, 2, 276–302.
4. D. Kahneman, ‘Objective Happiness’, in D. Kahneman, E. Diener, andN. Schwarz (eds.), Well-being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology(Russell Sage Foundation, 1999), pp. 3–25.
Eudaimonic Approaches: Pursuing the Good Life
5. C. R. Rogers, ‘The Concept of the Fully Functioning Person’,Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and Practice, 1963, 1, 17–26.
6. C. D. Ryff, ‘Happiness is Everything, or is it? Explorations on theMeaning of Psychological Well-being’, Journal of Personality and SocialPsychology, 1989, 57, 1069–81.
Hedonic–Eudaimonic Comparisons
7. A. S. Waterman, ‘Two Conceptions of Happiness: Contrasts ofPersonal Expressiveness (Eudaimonia) and Hedonic Enjoyment’,Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1993, 64, 678–91.
8. I. McGregor and B. R. Little, ‘Personal Projects, Happiness, andMeaning: On Doing Well and Being Yourself’, Journal of Personality andSocial Psychology, 1998, 74, 494–512.
9. M. E. P. Seligman and M. Csikszentmihalyi, ‘Positive Psychology: AnIntroduction’, American Psychologist, 2000, 55, 5–14.
10. R. M. Ryan and E. D. Deci, ‘On Happiness and Human Potentials: AReview of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-being’, AnnualReview of Psychology, 2001, 52, 141–66.
11. T. B. Kashdan, R. Biswas-Diener, and L. A. King, ‘ReconsideringHappiness: The Costs of Distinguishing Between Hedonics andEudaimonia’, Journal of Positive Psychology, 2008, 3, 219–33.
Other Approaches
12. E. W. Fellows, ‘Happiness: A Survey of Research’, Journal of HumanisticPsychology, 1956, 6, 17–30.
13. R. Veenhoven, ‘The Four Qualities of Life: Ordering Concepts andMeasures of the Good Life’, Journal of Happiness Studies, 2000, 1, 1–39.
14. R. Schoch, ‘What does Religion Tell Us About Happiness?’, Dialogue: AJournal of Religion and Philosophy, Nov. 2007, 29.
Part 2—Measurement: Approaches, Challenges, Issues
Approaches to the Assessment of Happiness and Well-being
15. M. Csikszentmihalyi and J. Hunter, ‘Happiness in Everyday Life: TheUses of Experience Sampling’, Journal of Happiness Studies, 2003, 4,185–99.
16. D. Kahneman et al., ‘A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily LifeExperience: The Day Reconstruction Method’, Science, 2004, 306,1776–80.
Specific Measures for the Assessment of Happiness and Well-being
17. E. Diener et al., ‘The Satisfaction with Life Scale’, Journal of PersonalityAssessment, 1985, 49, 71–5.
18. D. Watson, L. A. Clark, and A. Tellegen, ‘Development and Validationof Brief Measures of Positive and Negative Affect: The PANAS Scales’,Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1988, 54, 1063–70.
19. C. D. Ryff and C. L. Keyes, ‘The Structure of Psychological Well-beingRevisited’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1995, 69, 719–27.
20. J. Tennant et al., ‘The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale;Development and UK Validation’, Health Quality of Life Outcomes,2007, 5, 63.
21. C. P. Proctor, P. A. Linley, and J. Maltby, ‘Youth Life SatisfactionMeasures: A Review’, Journal of Positive Psychology, 2009, 4, 1–17.
Structural Aspects of Happiness and Well-being Measures
22. E. Diener and C. Diener, ‘Most People are Happy’, Psychological Science,1996, 7, 181–5.
23. C. L. M. Keyes, D. Shmotkin, and C. D. Ryff, ‘Optimizing Well-being:The Empirical Encounter of Two Traditions’, Journal of Personality andSocial Psychology, 2002, 82, 1007–22.
24. F. A. Huppert and J. E. Whittington, ‘Evidence for the Independence ofPositive and Negative Well-being: Implications for the Quality of LifeAssessment’, British Journal of Health Psychology, 2003, 8, 107–22.
25. B. L. Fredrickson and M. F. Losada, ‘Positive Affect and the ComplexDynamics of Human Flourishing’, American Psychologist, 2005, 60,678–86.
Part 3—Causes and Correlates of Happiness and Well-being: What Makes Us Happy?
Evolutionary Approaches
26. D. M. Buss, ‘The Evolution of Happiness’, American Psychologist, 2000,55, 15–23.
General Approaches
27. M. Argyle, ‘Causes and Correlates of Happiness’, in D. Kahneman, E.Diener, and N. Schwarz (eds.), Well-being: The Foundations of HedonicPsychology (Russell Sage Foundation, 1999), pp. 353–73.
28. P. Dolan, T. Peasgood, and M. P. White, ‘Do We Really Know WhatMakes Us Happy? A Review of the Economic Literature on the FactorsAssociated with Subjective Well-being’, Journal of Economic Psychology,2008, 29, 94–122.
Psychological Approaches
29. P. Brickman, D. Coates, and R. Janoff-Bulman, ‘Lottery Winners andAccident Victims: Is Happiness Relative?’, Journal of Personality andSocial Psychology, 1978, 36, 917–27.
30. K. M. Sheldon and L. Houser-Marko, ‘Self-concordance, Goal-attainment, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Can There be an UpwardSpiral?’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001, 80, 152–65.
31. B. Schwartz et al., ‘Maximizing Versus Satisficing: Happiness is aMatter of Choice’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2002, 83,1178–97.
32. C. Peterson et al., ‘Strengths of Character, Orientations to Happiness,and Life Satisfaction’, Journal of Positive Psychology, 2007, 2, 149–56.
Social and Cultural Approaches
33. T. Kasser and R. Ryan, ‘A Dark Side of the American Dream: Correlatesof Financial Success as a Central Life Aspiration’, Journal of Personalityand Social Psychology, 1993, 65, 410–22.
34 E. Diener, M. Diener, and C. Diener, ‘Factors Predicting the SubjectiveWell-being of Nations’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,1995, 69, 851–64.
35. S. Oishi et al., ‘Cross-situational Consistency of Affective ExperiencesAcross Cultures’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004, 86,460–72.
36. J. H. Fowler and N. A. Christakis, ‘Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network: Longitudinal Analysis Over 20 Years in theFramingham Heart Study’, British Medical Journal, 2008, 337, 2238.
Economic Approaches
37. A. Sen, ‘Rationality, Joy and Freedom’, Critical Review, 1996, 10, 4,481–94.
38. B. S. Frey and A. Stutzer, ‘Happiness, Economy and Institutions’,Economic Journal, 2000, 110, 466, 918–38.
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39. R. A. Easterlin, ‘Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory’,Economic Journal, 2001, 111, 473, 465–84.
Biological Approaches
40. H. L. Urry et al., ‘Making a Life Worth Living: Neural Correlates ofWell-being’, Psychological Science, 2004, 15, 367–72.
41. E. B. Keverne, ‘Understanding Well-being in the Evolutionary Contextof Brain Development’, in F. A. Huppert, N. Baylis, and B. Keverne(eds.), The Science of Well-being (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp.35–56.
42. A. Steptoe, J. Wardle, and M. Marmot, ‘Positive Affect and Health-related Neuroendocrine, Cardiovascular, and InflammatoryResponses’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2005,102, 6508–12.
43. C. D. Ryff et al., ‘Psychological Well-being and Ill-being: Do They HaveDistinct or Mirrored Biological Correlates?’, Psychotherapy andPsychosomatics, 2006, 75, 85–95.
Part 4—Consequences of Happiness and Well-being
General Consequences
44. L. A. Harker and D. Keltner, ‘Expressions of Positive Emotion inWomen’s College Yearbook Pictures and Their Relationship toPersonality and Life Outcomes Across Adulthood’, Journal of Personalityand Social Psychology, 2001, 80, 112–24.
45. S. Lyubomirsky, L. King, and E. Diener, ‘The Benefits of FrequentPositive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success?’, Psychological Bulletin,2005, 131, 803–55.
Biological Consequences
46. B. L. Fredrickson et al., ‘The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions’,Motivation and Emotion, 2000, 24, 237–58.
Psychological Consequences
47. A. M. Isen, ‘Positive Affect, Cognitive Processes and Social Behaviour’,in L. Berkowitz (ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology(Academic Press, 1987), pp. 203–53.
48. B. L. Fredrickson and C. Branigan, ‘Positive Emotions Broaden theScope of Attention and Thought-Action Repertoires’, Cognition andEmotion, 2005, 19, 3, 313–32.
Social Consequences
49. A. J. Oswald, ‘Happiness and Economic Performance’, EconomicJournal, 1997, 107, 1815–31.
50. T. A. Judge et al., ‘The Job Satisfaction–Job Performance Relationship:A Qualitative and Quantitative Review’, Psychological Bulletin, 2001,127, 3, 376–407.
Health Consequences
51. D. D. Danner, D. A. Snowdon, and W. V. Friesen, ‘Positive Emotions inEarly Life and Longevity: Findings from the Nun Study’, Journal ofPersonality and Social Psychology, 2001, 80, 804–13.
52. S. Cohen et al., ‘Emotional Style and Susceptibility to the CommonCold’, Psychosomatic Medicine, 2003, 65, 4, 652–7.
53. E. Røysamb et al., ‘Happiness and Health: Environmental and GeneticContributions to the Relationship Between Subjective Well-being,Perceived Health, and Somatic Illness’, Journal of Personality and SocialPsychology, 2003, 85, 1136–46.
54. S. D. Pressman and S. Cohen, ‘Does Positive Affect Influence Health?’,Psychological Bulletin, 2005, 131, 925–71.
55. Y. Chida and A. Steptoe, ‘Positive Psychological Well-being andMortality: A Quantitative Review of Prospective Observational Studies’,Psychosomatic Medicine, 2008, 70, 741–56.
Part 5—Interventions and Enhancements
56. M. W. Fordyce, ‘Development of a Program to Increase PersonalHappiness’, Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1977, 24, 511–21.
57. S. Lichter, K. Haye, and R. Kammann, ‘Increasing Happiness ThroughCognitive Retraining’, New Zealand Psychologist, 1980, 9, 57–64.
58. R. A. Emmons and M. E. McCullough, ‘Counting Blessings VersusBurdens: An Experimental Investigation of Gratitude and SubjectiveWell-being in Daily Life’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,2003, 84, 377–89.
59. S. Lyubomirsky, K. M. Sheldon, and D. Schkade, ‘Pursuing Happiness:The Architecture of Sustainable Change’, Review of General Psychology,2005, 9, 111–31.
60. M. E. P. Seligman et al., ‘Positive Psychology Progress: EmpiricalValidation of Interventions’, American Psychologist, 2005, 60, 410–21.
61. N. L. Sin and S. Lyubomirsky, ‘Enhancing Well-Being and AlleviatingDepressive Symptoms with Positive Psychology Interventions: APractice-Friendly Meta-Analysis’ (forthcoming).
Part 6—Public Policy
62. R. Layard, ‘Human Satisfactions and Public Policy’, Economic Journal,1980, 90, 737–50.
63. E. Diener and M. E. P. Seligman, ‘Beyond Money: Toward an Economyof Well-being’, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 2004, 5, 1–31.
64. R. Veenhoven, ‘The Greatest Happiness Principle: Happiness as aPublic Policy Aim’, in P. A. Linley and S. Joseph (eds.), PositivePsychology in Practice (Wiley, 2004), pp. 658–78.
65. N. Marks and H. Shah, ‘A Well-being Manifesto for a FlourishingSociety’, in F. A. Huppert, N. Baylis, and B. Keverne (eds.), The Scienceof Well-being (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 503–31.
66. R. Eckersley, ‘Progress, Sustainability and Human Well-being: Is a NewWorldview Emerging?’, International Journal of Innovation andSustainable Development, 2006, 1, 4, 304–17.
67. F. A. Huppert, ‘A New Approach to Reducing Disorder and ImprovingWell-being’, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2009, 4, 1, 108–11.
