The Human Pursuit of Well-Being: A Cultural Approach by Ingrid Brdar

By Ingrid Brdar

This booklet brings jointly the newest study on optimistic psychology from a world forged of researchers and especially from the becoming physique of eu researchers. The chapters describe study and perform from assorted fields of optimistic psychology, masking issues corresponding to happiness and wellbeing and fitness, motivation and pursuits, character, educational functionality and coping, dimension and interventions. The booklet emphasizes a cultural method of the human pursuit of future health. it truly is exact in that it provides learn from a number of cultures, similar to Russia, Croatia, and Egypt, as well as ten diversified Western cultures. This technique is helping expand our realizing of these points of human event that make lifestyles worthy residing in varied cultural stipulations.

The ebook comprises famous and new authors from the sector and comprises chosen papers that have been awarded on the 4th eu convention of optimistic Psychology held in 2008 in Croatia.

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