Culture and well-being / Ed Diener, ed.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : culture and well-being works by Ed Diener / Ed Diener -- Culture and subjective well-being / William Tov and Ed Diener -- Factors predicting the subjective well-being of nations / Ed Diener, Marissa Diener and Carol Diener -- Cross-cultural correlates of life satisfaction and self-esteem / Ed Diener and Marissa Diener -- Goals, culture and subjective well-being / Shigehiro Oishi and Ed Diener -- Cross-cultural variations in predictors of life satisfaction : perspectives from needs and values / Shigehiro Oishi, Ed Diener, Richard E. Lucas and Eunkook M. Suh -- From culture to priming conditions : self-construal infulences on life satisfaction judgments / Eunkook M. Suh, Ed Diener and John A. Updegraff -- The dynamics of daily events and being well across cultures : when less is more / Shigehiro Oishi, Ed Diener, Dong-Won Choi, Chu Kim-Prieto and Incheol Choi -- Norms for experiencing emotions in different cultures : inter- and intranational differences / Michael Eid and Ed Diener -- Emotions across cultures and methods / Christie Napa Scollon, Ed Diener, Shigehiro Ioshi and Robert Biswas-Diener -- Positivity and the contruction of life satisfaction judgments : global happiness is not the sum of its parts / Ed Diener, Christie Napa Scollon, Shigehiro Oishi, Vivian Dzokoto and Eunkook M. Suh -- Most people are pretty happy, but there is cultural variation : the Inughuit, the Amish and the Maasai / Robert Biswas-Diener, Joar Vitters{u086E}d Ed Dierner -- Making the best of a bad situation : satisfaction in the slums of Calcutta / Robert Biswas-Diener and Ed Diener -- Conclusion : what we have learned and where we go next / Ed Diener.