Close Relationships and Happiness across Cultures

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Demir, Melikşah (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sümer, Nebi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology, 13
• Subjects: Positive psychology.; Quality of life.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Developmental psychology.; Positive Psychology.; Quality of Life Research.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Developmental Psychology.

This volume focuses explicitly on close relationships as a reliable source for individual happiness and well-being across cultures. The work in this volume addresses theoretical issues and presents new cross-cultural data in the study of close relationships and happiness. Experts from different part...

Table of Contents:

• Responsiveness as a Key Predictor of Happiness: Mechanisms and Unanswered Questions
• Interdependent Happiness: Progress and Implications
• Parent-Child Relationships and Happiness across Cultures
• Intimate Relationships and Happiness in Asia: A Critical Review
• Close Relationships and Happiness in South America
• The Transition to Grandparenthood: A Chance to Promote Well-Being and Personal Growth
• My Relationships Are My Estate: Relationships with Kin and Voluntary Bonds as Predictors of Happiness among Emerging Adults
• Number of Close Friends and their Links to Life Satisfaction over the Great Recession in Germany
• The Relationships between Filial Piety, Self-Esteem, and Life Satsfaction among Emerging Adults in Taiwan
• Cultural Aspects of Attachment Anxiety, Avoidance and Life Satisfaction: Comparing the US and Turkey
• Reconciliation Sentiment, Forgiveness, and Mental Health among Genocide Victims
• Cultural Orientations and Well-Being in Greece: Dyad-Level Processes.