Happiness is fundamental to how we live our lives, but the meaning of happiness remains as contentious as it did when it was first debated thousands of years ago.
The field of health psychology has grown dramatically in the last decade, with exciting new developments in the study of how psychological and psychosocial processes contribute to risk for and disease sequelae for a variety of medical problems.
This book delves into the various aspects of a person's relationship with their inner selves and the impact this crucial relationship can have on their well-being.
Drawing upon qualitative material from parents and professionals, including ethnography, narrative inquiry, interviews and focus groups, this book brings together feminist and critical disability studies theories.
Croire que pour être heureux, il faut se sentir bien tout le temps, voilà une illusion qui empêche bien des gens de goûter les moments de bonheur qui jalonnent leur vie.
A provocative sociological account of human relations with non-human animals, providing an innovative theorization of the social relations of species in terms of complex systemic relations of domination, looking at ways Other animals are constitutive of human social lives at the dinner table, as livestock and as companions in our homes.
Zig Ziglar, America's most influential and beloved encourager and believer that everyone could be, do and have more, influenced an estimated quarter of a billion individuals through his 33 books, including the bestseller See You at the Top, which has sold almost two million copies.
This book presents the key issues, debates, concepts, approaches, and questions that together define the lives of rural people living in extreme poverty in the aftermath of political violence in a developing country context.
This volume is an outgrowth ofcontemporary research on development over the adult lifespan, which by now has burgeoned and developed both nationally and internationally.
Dieses Buch liefert das Wesentliche zur dunklen Triade und informiert in konzentrierter Form über den State of the Art zu dunklen Persönlichkeitseigenschaften insbesondere in Organisationen.
A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday livesWhy is it hard to text and drive at the same time?
This book details years of research involving questionnaires and observations of married couples in pursuit of the determinants of both marital happiness and divorce.
At least since Hippocrates, human beings have been trying to describe and analyze the behavioral and cognitive consistencies now referred to as personality.
This book draws together a variety of detailed case studies to demonstrate the unique interaction between the past and the present which occurs within the professional education context.
This book presents a seven-step model for insight and change using the action method, Psychotheatrics, which uses the expressive arts to transform the storytelling experience into a phenomenological framework for depicting challenges, strategies and outcomes resulting in the dynamic illustration of inter-subjective meaning.
Egoicism, a mindset that places primary focus upon oneself, is rampant in contemporary Western cultures as commercial advertisements, popular books, song lyrics, and mobile apps consistently promote self-interest.
This volume aims to provide the reader with a contemporary account of his- torical, diagnostic, treatment-management (including the individual and the service systems perspectives), and training dimensions of mentally ill/mentally retarded individuals from interdisciplinary perspectives.
Leadership, Work, and the Dark Side of Personality uses an interpersonal psychological perspective to unite general theories of both personality and leadership.
This book analyzes the narratives of urban, North Indian women for the diverse ways in which they construct the impact of their medium of education - Hindi, English, or a combination of both - on varied aspects of their professional and personal lives.
Keshen presents a set of guidelines for analysing self-esteem and examines various factors that influence our self-esteem, such as other people's evaluations, comparisons with others, social relationships, and inherent qualities.
Der Wandel von Arbeit, der als Subjektivierung und Digitalisierung diskutiert wird, hat unerwartete Folgen: Mehr Selbstverantwortung schafft noch keine befreite Welt der Erwerbsarbeit, und Technik dringt in die Domänen geistiger Arbeit ein.
This book, shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize (2015), argues that Fromm is a vital and largely overlooked contribution to twentieth-century intellectual history, and one who offers a refreshingly reconfigured form of humanism that is capable of reintegrating explicitly humanist analytical categories and schemas back into social theoretical (and scientific) considerations.
This book addresses the topics of autobiography, self-representation and status as a writer in Mahatma Gandhi's autobiographical work The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1927, 1929).
Wie wird über Terrorismus in den Fernsehmedien berichtet und wie wird das, was berichtet wird, von potentiellen Medienrezipienten wahrgenommen, erlebt und interpretiert?
This book presents the results of the most complete and updated assessment of cognitive resources of students in Latin America: the Study of Latin American Intelligence (SLATINT).