Well-Being

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • John Haworth, Graham Hart

      Pages 1-22

3. Part 1

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Positive Psychology and the Development of Well-Being

      • Jane Henry

      Pages 25-40

   3. Individual Development and Community Empowerment: Suggestions from Studies on Optimal Experience

      • Antonella Delle Fave

      Pages 41-56

   4. Webs of Well-Being: the Interdependence of Personal, Relational, Organizational and Communal Well-Being

      • Isaac Prilleltensky, Ora Prilleltensky

      Pages 57-74

   5. Health, Well-Being and Social Capital

      • Judith Sixsmith, Margaret Boneham

      Pages 75-92

   6. Psychology in the Community

      • Carolyn Kagan, Amanda Kilroy

      Pages 93-109

   7. Art, Health and Well-Being

      • David Haley, Peter Senior

      Pages 110-126

   8. Sense and Solidarities: Politics and Human Well-Being

      • Perri Six

      Pages 127-145

4. Part 2

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Is Well-Being Local or Global? A Perspective from Ecopsychology

      • John Pickering

      Pages 149-162

   3. Societal Inequality, Health and Well-Being

      • Dimitris Ballas, Danny Dorling, Mary Shaw

      Pages 163-186

   4. A Life Course Approach to Well-Being

      • Stephani Hatch, Felicia A. Huppert, Rosemary Abbott, Tim Croudace, George Ploubidis, Michael Wadsworth et al.

      Pages 187-205

   5. Organizational Commitment: a Managerial Illusion?

      • Michael White

      Pages 206-224

   6. Well-Being, Paid Work and Personal Life

      • Suzan Lewis, Christina Purcell

      Pages 225-240

   7. Work, Leisure and Well-Being in Changing Social Conditions

      • John Haworth

      Pages 241-255

   8. Friendship, Trust and Mutuality

      • Ray Pahl

      Pages 256-270

5. Back Matter

   Pages 271-276

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This interdisciplinary book indicates the need to address well-being from individual, community and social perspectives in an integrated manner. The book complements the harm-based focus of much social scientific research into health. Chapters by a wide range of academics present a new dynamic view of well-being for the Twenty-First Century.

• community
• empowerment
• health
• interdependence
• organization
• organizations
• politics
• psychology
• social capital
• Suggestion
• trust
• well-being

'...an important contribution to positive psychology. John Haworth and Graham Hart have brought together a panel of international experts to authoritatively outline the state of the science of well-being and the implications of this for research, policy and practice.' - Alan Carr, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland

'This is a book that should be widely read. Whilst undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of disciplines and professional areas including leisure, psychology, health and medicine will find it a scholarly and well researched contribution to their studies, this book deserves a wider audience.'- Andy Smith, Managing Leisure

• Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

  John Haworth

• University College London, UK

  Graham Hart

JOHN HAWORTH is Visiting Research Fellow in the Research Institute for Health and Social Change at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published extensively on work, leisure and well-being. Formerly at Manchester University, he co-founded the Leisure Studies Association, and the international journal Leisure Studies.

GRAHAM HART is Professor Sexual Health and Director of the Division of Population Health at University College London, UK. His main research interests are in risk behaviours for and interventions to prevent unwanted sexual health outcomes, including HIV infection. He has published widely in these areas.

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