Overview
- Provides a positive perspective on the history of well-being
- Discusses the concept of well-being within the context of different philosophical and religious traditions
- Offers a clear overview of well-being and quality of life in different regions and sub-regions of the world
Part of the book series: International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life (IHQL)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Historical Conceptions of Well-Being over the Long Term
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Domains of Well-Being
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Regional Analyses of the History and Contemporary State of Well-Being Since World War II
Keywords
- Historical Traditions of Well-Being
- Quality of Life Indicators
- Well-Being of Nations and Population Groups
- Contemporary State of Well-Being
- Domains of Well-Being
- Well-Being in Western Countries
- Well-Being in East Asia
- Well-Being in South Asia
- Well-Being in Islamic Countries
- Well-Being in Latin America
- Well-Being in North America
- Well-Being in Europe
- Well-Being in Oceania
About this book
- What does well-being mean?
- How do different philosophical and religious traditions interpret the concept of well-being within their own context?
- Has well-being remained the same over different historical epochs and for different regions and subregions of the world?
- In which areas of human development have we been most successful in advancing individual and collective well-being? In which sectors has the attainment of well-being proven most difficult?
- How does well-being differ within and between different populations groups that, for a variety of socially created reasons, have been the most disadvantaged (e.g., children, the aged, women, the poor, racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities)?
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
M. Joseph Sirgy is a management psychologist (PhD, University of Massachusetts, 1979), Professor of Marketing, and Virginia Real Estate Research Fellow at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He has published extensively in the areas of marketing, business ethics, and quality of life (QOL). He is the author/editor of many books related to quality-of-life and well-being research. In 1998, he received the Distinguished Fellow Award from ISQOLS. In 2003, ISQOLS honored him as the Distinguished QOL Researcher for research excellence and a record of lifetime achievement in QOL research. In 2012 he was awarded the EuroMed Management Research Award for outstanding achievements and groundbreaking contributions to well-being and quality-of-life research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Pursuit of Human Well-Being
Book Subtitle: The Untold Global History
Editors: Richard J. Estes, M. Joseph Sirgy
Series Title: International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39101-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39100-7Published: 19 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41641-0Published: 03 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39101-4Published: 09 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2468-7227
Series E-ISSN: 2468-7235
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 808
Number of Illustrations: 74 b/w illustrations, 253 illustrations in colour