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HAPPINESSACROSSCULTURES SCIENCEACROSSCULTURES: THEHISTORYOFNON-WESTERNSCIENCE VOLUME6 HAPPINESSACROSSCULTURES Editor HELAINESELIN,HampshireCollege,Amherst,MA,USA Forfurthervolumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6504 HAPPINESS ACROSS CULTURES Views of Happiness and Quality of Life in Non-Western Cultures Editor HELAINESELIN HampshireCollege,Amherst,MA,USA Co-editor GARETHDAVEY HongKongShueYanUniversity,China 123 Editor Co-editor HelaineSelin GarethDavey SchoolofNaturalScience HongKongShueYanUniversity HampshireCollege CounsellingandPsychology 893WestSt. WaiTsuiCrescent10 Amherst,Massachusetts01002 25707110HongKong USA [email protected] [email protected] ISSN1568-2145 ISBN978-94-007-2699-4 e-ISBN978-94-007-2700-7 DOI10.1007/978-94-007-2700-7 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2011946228 ©SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2012 Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorby anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise,withoutwritten permissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurpose ofbeingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) ToBob,whoalwaysmakesmelaugh. H.S. Tomytwinbrother:IhopeImakeyouproud. G.D. Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 HelaineSelinandGarethDavey HappinessinIndia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 RobertBiswas-Diener,LouisTay,andEdDiener HappinessontheTibetanPlateau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 DaveWebb HappinessandLifeSatisfactioninMalaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 RyanT.Howell,WanTienChong,ColleenJ.Howell,andKurtSchwabe HappinessandQualityofLifeinthePeople’sRepublicofChina . . . . 57 GarethDavey QualityofLifeofanAsianMetropolisinaGovernanceCrisis: TheCaseofHongKong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 MingSing QualityofWorkLifeinMacau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 RicardoRatoandGarethDavey SatisfactionandSocietalQualityinKazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 PamelaAbbottandClaireWallace Singapore:AHappyStateofMind? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 SiokKuanTambyahandSooJiuanTan HappinessinThailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 RossarinSoottipongGray The Politics of Wellbeing in International Development: ResearchwithOrganicFarmersinCambodia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 AliceBeban Farmers’ Happiness from Fish Production: A Case Study inVietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 NguyenMinhDuc vii viii Contents ConstructionsofHappinessandSatisfactionintheKingdom ofTonga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 HeatherE.Young-LeslieandSeanE.Moore HappinessinanAboriginalAustralianCommunity:WhatIt Means‘ToBeWell’and‘ToEnjoyLife’inCentral-Western NewSouthWales,Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 DanielaHeil HappinessintheAmazon:FolkExplanationsofHappinessina Hunter-HorticulturalistSocietyintheBolivianAmazon . . . . . . . . . 209 VictoriaReyes-GarcíaandTsimane’AmazonianPanelStudy(TAPS) HappinessinBrazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 GaziIslam HappinessinMexico:TheImportanceofHumanRelations . . . . . . . 241 MarianoRojas HappyVillagesandUnhappySlums?UnderstandingHappiness DeterminantsinPeru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 MònicaGuillen-RoyoandJackelineVelazco LifeSatisfactioninMalawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 TimHinksandSimonDavies HappinessinNigeria:ASocio-CulturalAnalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 AaronA.Agbo,ThaddeusC.Nzeadibe,andChukwuedozieK.Ajaero GhanaianHappiness:Global,Cultural,andPhenomenological Perspectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 VivianAfiAbuiDzokoto Living The Good Life: An Economic View of Happiness inSouthAfrica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 JeffreyT.Bookwalter ConceptsofWellbeingAmongOrganicFarmersandPlantation WorkersinMadagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 CathyRozelFarnworth HappinessinaPost-conflictSociety:Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 PamelaAbbottandClaireWallace HappinessinNavajos(DinéBa’Hózhó) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377 AngelaA.A.Willeto It’sAllintheFamily:WellbeingAmongInuitinArcticCanada. . . . . 387 MichaelJ.KralandLoriIdlout Climate,Cash,andCulturallyEmbeddedHappiness . . . . . . . . . . . 399 EvertVandeVliert Contents ix Hinduism, Happiness and Wellbeing: A Case Study ofAdulthoodinanOriyaHinduTempleTown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 UshaMenon TheScienceofHappiness:ACross-CulturalPerspective . . . . . . . . . 435 StephenG.Morris DoesHappinessDifferAcrossCultures? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 RuutVeenhoven Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 Contributors PamelaAbbott SchoolofSocialScience,UniversityofAberdeen,Aberdeen, UK;InstituteofPolicyAnalysisandResearch-Rwanda,Kigali,Rwanda, [email protected] AaronA.Agbo ExperimentalandSocialPsychologyUnit,Departmentof Psychology,UniversityofNigeria,410001Nsukka,EnuguState,Nigeria, [email protected] ChukwuedozieK.Ajaero DepartmentofGeography,UniversityofNigeria, 410001Nsukka,EnuguState,Nigeria,[email protected] AliceBeban CornellUniversity,Ithaca,NY,USA,[email protected] RobertBiswas-Diener PortlandStateUniversity,Portland,OR,USA;TheCentre ofAppliedPositivePsychology,Coventry,UK,[email protected] JeffreyT.Bookwalter DepartmentofEconomics,UniversityofMontana, Missoula,MT59812,USA,[email protected] WanTienChong DepartmentofPsychology,SanFranciscoStateUniversity, SanFrancisco,CA,USA,[email protected] GarethDavey CounsellingandPsychologyDepartment,HongKongShueYan University,HongKong,[email protected] SimonDavies PovertyReductionandEconomicManagementUnit,WestAfrica, WorldBank,Washington,DC,USA,[email protected] EdDiener UniversityofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign,IL,USA;TheGallup Organization,Washington,DC,USA,[email protected] NguyenMinhDuc DepartmentofFisheriesManagementandDevelopment, NongLamUniversity,HochiminhCity,Vietnam,[email protected]; [email protected] VivianAfiAbuiDzokoto VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity,Richmond,VA, USA,[email protected] xi

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HAPPINESSACROSSCULTURES SCIENCEACROSSCULTURES: THEHISTORYOFNON-WESTERNSCIENCE VOLUME6 HAPPINESSACROSSCULTURES Editor HELAINESELIN,HampshireCollege,Amherst,MA,USA Forfurthervolumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6504 HAPPINESS ACROSS CULTURES Views of Happiness and Quality of Life in Non-Western Cultures Editor HELAINESELIN HampshireCollege,Amherst,MA,USA Co-editor GARETHDAVEY HongKongShueYanUniversity,China 123 Editor Co-editor HelaineSelin GarethDavey SchoolofNaturalScience HongKongShueYanUniversity HampshireCollege CounsellingandPsychology 893WestSt. WaiTsuiCrescent10 Amherst,Massachusetts01002 25707110HongKong USA [email protected] [email protected] ISSN1568-2145 ISBN978-94-007-2699-4 e-ISBN978-94-007-2700-7 DOI10.1007/978-94-007-2700-7 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2011946228 ©SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2012 Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorby anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise,withoutwritten permissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurpose ofbeingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) ToBob,whoalwaysmakesmelaugh. H.S. Tomytwinbrother:IhopeImakeyouproud. G.D. Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 HelaineSelinandGarethDavey HappinessinIndia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 RobertBiswas-Diener,LouisTay,andEdDiener HappinessontheTibetanPlateau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 DaveWebb HappinessandLifeSatisfactioninMalaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 RyanT.Howell,WanTienChong,ColleenJ.Howell,andKurtSchwabe HappinessandQualityofLifeinthePeople’sRepublicofChina . . . . 57 GarethDavey QualityofLifeofanAsianMetropolisinaGovernanceCrisis: TheCaseofHongKong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 MingSing QualityofWorkLifeinMacau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 RicardoRatoandGarethDavey SatisfactionandSocietalQualityinKazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 PamelaAbbottandClaireWallace Singapore:AHappyStateofMind? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 SiokKuanTambyahandSooJiuanTan HappinessinThailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 RossarinSoottipongGray The Politics of Wellbeing in International Development: ResearchwithOrganicFarmersinCambodia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 AliceBeban Farmers’ Happiness from Fish Production: A Case Study inVietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 NguyenMinhDuc vii viii Contents ConstructionsofHappinessandSatisfactionintheKingdom ofTonga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 HeatherE.Young-LeslieandSeanE.Moore HappinessinanAboriginalAustralianCommunity:WhatIt Means‘ToBeWell’and‘ToEnjoyLife’inCentral-Western NewSouthWales,Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 DanielaHeil HappinessintheAmazon:FolkExplanationsofHappinessina Hunter-HorticulturalistSocietyintheBolivianAmazon . . . . . . . . . 209 VictoriaReyes-GarcíaandTsimane’AmazonianPanelStudy(TAPS) HappinessinBrazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 GaziIslam HappinessinMexico:TheImportanceofHumanRelations . . . . . . . 241 MarianoRojas HappyVillagesandUnhappySlums?UnderstandingHappiness DeterminantsinPeru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 MònicaGuillen-RoyoandJackelineVelazco LifeSatisfactioninMalawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 TimHinksandSimonDavies HappinessinNigeria:ASocio-CulturalAnalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 AaronA.Agbo,ThaddeusC.Nzeadibe,andChukwuedozieK.Ajaero GhanaianHappiness:Global,Cultural,andPhenomenological Perspectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 VivianAfiAbuiDzokoto Living The Good Life: An Economic View of Happiness inSouthAfrica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 JeffreyT.Bookwalter ConceptsofWellbeingAmongOrganicFarmersandPlantation WorkersinMadagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 CathyRozelFarnworth HappinessinaPost-conflictSociety:Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 PamelaAbbottandClaireWallace HappinessinNavajos(DinéBa’Hózhó) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377 AngelaA.A.Willeto It’sAllintheFamily:WellbeingAmongInuitinArcticCanada. . . . . 387 MichaelJ.KralandLoriIdlout Climate,Cash,andCulturallyEmbeddedHappiness . . . . . . . . . . . 399 EvertVandeVliert Contents ix Hinduism, Happiness and Wellbeing: A Case Study ofAdulthoodinanOriyaHinduTempleTown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 UshaMenon TheScienceofHappiness:ACross-CulturalPerspective . . . . . . . . . 435 StephenG.Morris DoesHappinessDifferAcrossCultures? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 RuutVeenhoven Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 Contributors PamelaAbbott SchoolofSocialScience,UniversityofAberdeen,Aberdeen, UK;InstituteofPolicyAnalysisandResearch-Rwanda,Kigali,Rwanda, [email protected] AaronA.Agbo ExperimentalandSocialPsychologyUnit,Departmentof Psychology,UniversityofNigeria,410001Nsukka,EnuguState,Nigeria, [email protected] ChukwuedozieK.Ajaero DepartmentofGeography,UniversityofNigeria, 410001Nsukka,EnuguState,Nigeria,[email protected] AliceBeban CornellUniversity,Ithaca,NY,USA,[email protected] RobertBiswas-Diener PortlandStateUniversity,Portland,OR,USA;TheCentre ofAppliedPositivePsychology,Coventry,UK,[email protected] JeffreyT.Bookwalter DepartmentofEconomics,UniversityofMontana, Missoula,MT59812,USA,[email protected] WanTienChong DepartmentofPsychology,SanFranciscoStateUniversity, SanFrancisco,CA,USA,[email protected] GarethDavey CounsellingandPsychologyDepartment,HongKongShueYan University,HongKong,[email protected] SimonDavies PovertyReductionandEconomicManagementUnit,WestAfrica, WorldBank,Washington,DC,USA,[email protected] EdDiener UniversityofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign,IL,USA;TheGallup Organization,Washington,DC,USA,[email protected] NguyenMinhDuc DepartmentofFisheriesManagementandDevelopment, NongLamUniversity,HochiminhCity,Vietnam,[email protected]; [email protected] VivianAfiAbuiDzokoto VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity,Richmond,VA, USA,[email protected] xi

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