Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: J.Haworth & G.Hart PART 1 Positive Psychology and the Development of Well-Being; J.Henry Individual Development and Community Empowerment: Suggestions from Studies on Optimal Experience; A.Delle Fave Webs of Well-Being: The Interdependence of Personal, Relational, Organizational and Communal Well-Being; I.Prilleltensky & O.Prilleltensky Health, Well-Being and Social Capital; J.Sixsmith & M.Boneham Psychology in the Community; C.Kagan & A.Kilroy Art, Health and Well-Being; D.Haley & P.Senior Sense and Solidarities: Politics and Human Well-Being; Perri 6 PART 2 Is Well-Being Local or Global? A Perspective from Ecopsychology; J.Pickering Societal Inequality, Health and Well-Being; D.Ballas, D.Dorling & M.Shaw A Life Course Approach to Well-Being; S.Hatch, F.Huppert, R.Abbott, T.Croudace, G.B.Ploubidis, M.E.J.Wadsworth, M.Richards & D.Kuh Organizational Commitment: A Managerial Illusion?; M.White Well-Being, Paid Work and Personal Life; S.Lewis & C.Purcell Work, Leisure and Well-Being in Changing Social Conditions; J.Haworth Friendship, Trust and Mutuality; R.Pahl Index

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ROSEMARY ABBOTT Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK DIMITRIS BALLAS Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK MARGARET BONEHAM Head of the Department of Health and Social Studies, Bolton University, UK TIM CROUDACE Population-based quantitative psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Psychometric Epidemiology. He is a UK Department of Health Career Scientist in Public Health ANTONELLA DELLE FAVE Professor of Psychology at the Medical School, University of Milano, Italy DANNY DORLING Professor of Human Geography, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK DAVID HALEY Research Fellow in MIRIAD at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK STEPHANI HATCH Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA JANE HENRY Head of the Open University Business School Human Resources and Change Management Centre, UK, and founder of the BPS Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section FELICIA HUPPERT Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge and Director of the Well-being Institute and the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ageing (CIRCA), UK CAROLYN KAGAN Professor of Community Social Psychology and Director of the Research Institute for Health and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK AMANDA KILROY Research Assistant, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK DIANA KUH Senior Scientist, UK Medical Research Council and Professor of Life Course Epidemiology, University College London,UK SUE LEWIS Professor, Middlesex University Business School, UK RAY PAHL Research Professor of Sociology, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex and Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Kent, UK PERRI 6 Professor of Social Policy in the Graduate School, College of Business, Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, UK JOHN PICKERING lectures in the Psychology Department, Warwick University, UK GEORGE B. PLOUBDIS Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK ISAAC PRILLELTENSKY Dean of the School of Education, University of Miami, Florida, USA ORA PRILLELTENSKY Faculty member, Department of Educational and Psychological Studies, School of Education, University of Miami, Florida, USA CHRISTINA PURCELL Department of Psychology and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK MARCUS RICHARDS Medical Research Council Programme Leader and Reader in Cognitive Epidemiology at University College London, UK PETER SENIOR MBE is Director of 'Arts for Health', Manchester Metropolitan University, UK MARY SHAW Reader in Medical Sociology, University of Bristol, UK JUDITH SIXSMITH Reader in Applied Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK MICHAEL E J WADSWORTH Director of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, UK MICHAEL WHITE Emeritus Fellow, Policy Studies Institute (PSI), University of Westminster, UK

About the Author

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.

Reviews

'...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