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    <title>science of subjective well-being</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Larsen, Randy J.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Guilford Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2008</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>546 p. : ill.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Ed Diener and the science of subjective well-being / Randy J. Larsen and Michael Eid -- The realm of subjective well-being -- Philosophy and the science of subjective well-being / Dan M. Haybron -- Sociological theories of subjective well-being / Ruut Veenhoven -- Evolution and subjective well-being / Sarah E. Hill and David M. Buss -- The pursuit of happiness in history / Darrin M. McMahon -- Measuring subjective well-being -- The structure of subjective well-being / Ulrich Schimmack -- The assessment of subjective well-being: successes and shortfalls / William Pavot -- Measuring the immeasurable : psychometric modeling of subjective well-being data / Michael Eid -- The happy person -- Personality and subjective well-being / Richard E. Lucas -- Happiness and the invisible threads of social connection : the Chicago health, aging, and social relations study / John T. Cacioppo ... [et al.] -- The happy mind in action : the cognitive basis of subjective well-being / Michael D. Robinson and Rebecca J. Compton -- The frequency of social comparison and its relation to subjective well-being -- Frank Fujita -- Regulation of emotional well-being : overcoming the hedonic treadmill / Randy J. Larsen and Zvjezdana Prizmic -- Two new questions about happiness : "is happiness good" and "is happier better?" / Shige Oishi and Minkyung Koo -- Material wealth and subjective well-being / Robert M. Biswas- Diener -- Religion and human flourishing / David G. Myers -- Subjective well-being in the interpersonal domain -- What makes people happy? : a developmental approach to the literature on family relationships and well-being / Marissa L. Diener and Mary Beth Diener McGavran -- Research on life satisfaction of children and youth : implications for the delivery of school-related services / E. Scott Huebner and Carol Diener -- Job satisfaction : subjective well-being at work / Timothy A. Judge and Ryan Klinger -- Comparing subjective well-being across cultures and nations: the "what" and  "why" questions / Eunkook Suh and Jayoung Koo -- Making people happier -- Interventions for enhancing subjective well-being : can we make people happier and should we? / Laura A. King -- Promoting positive affect / Barbara L. Fredrickson -- Gratitude, subjective well-being, and the brain / Robert A. Emmons -- Conclusions and future directions -- Myths in the science of happiness, and directions for future research / Ed Diener.</tableOfContents>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Michael Eid, Randy J. Larsen.</note>
  <note type="venue">YT2025 M10</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Happiness</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Well-being</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BF575 S416 2008</classification>
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