In well-being research the term happiness is often used as synonymous with life satisfaction.
However, little is known about lay people's understanding of happiness. Building on the …

This paper illustrates a new project developed by a cross-country team of researchers, with
the aim of studying the hedonic and eudaimonic components of happiness through a mixed …

An attempt is made in this paper to provide the community of health-related quality-of-life
scholars with a hierarchical perspective of positive mental health guided by the concept of …

This chapter explains the concept of subjective well-being homeostasis. It concerns the
proposal that subjective well-being (SWB) is managed by a system of psychological devices …

This paper reconstructs a concept of harmony in two Chinese societies: Hong Kong and
China, by utilizing the measures and empirical data of harmony surveys. The data collected …

The aims of this research were twofold: first, to compare the levels of organisational harmony
between family and non-family firms and, second, to study the influence of organisational …

Many global indicators rank countries according to valued goods such as freedom, wealth,
or happiness, but they all share the same flaw: they neglect the importance of rich and …

Tolerance constitutes one of the core elements of a democratic political culture and an
indicator of social cohesion. While the concepts of social tolerance and political tolerance …

This paper examines the views of Hong Kong community leaders on the underlying issues
that affect family health, happiness and harmony (3Hs) in Hong Kong. Using a community …

A representational predicament for a subordinate vis-à-vis his or her immediate superior
involves perceptual incongruence with the superior about the subordinate's work or work …