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This briefs provides foundations of both community wellbeing and community development, and the relationships between the two areas, including both similarities and differences. Community development, as an established discipline, is one framework that can help further understanding of community well-being, and is an allied concept.

This book presents an analysis of active ageing and physical activity from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This birefs examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life.

There are several unique features of this book on the spiritual well-being of Chinese older adults. Conceptually, such effort is important because there is a general lack of well-articulated models of spiritual well-being for Chinese people. Third, a Spiritual Enhancement Group for Chinese Elders was developed and its effectiveness was evaluated.

In the case of young people, it has been observed that even if they live in negative physical, social and contextual conditions, they can nevertheless experience a relatively positive experience in relation to their quality of life, depending on the strategies and capabilities that they generate in relation to the context.

In short, the book offers both a deeper understanding of what happiness is about, and a framework for improving well-being.An array of brain modules has evolved to care for various pursuits, but recent studies suggest that they converge on shared neural circuits designed to generate positive and negative mood.

This volume is a unique contribution to the exploration of a new perspective in the study of well-being, which tries to overcome the quantification bias by creating an account of 'the good life' in a specific place. The volume demonstrates through the Bolivian case study the value of qualitative research for well-being studies.

This work examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life.

This briefs reviews the literature on alexithymia with a particular focus on the relation between positive well-being and alexithymia.

This book explores the broad view on child well-being and the quality of life research. After an exploration of the shifts and changes in the child well-being indicator movement and trends of child well-being measurements, the book turns to research on Tsunami-affected children.

This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and measures of societal progress.

The Flourishing Children Project undertook the development of scales for adolescents ages 12-17 for 19 aspects of flourishing covering six domains: flourishing in school and work, personal flourishing, flourishing in relationships, relationship skills, helping others to flourish, and environmental stewardship.

This book presents a discussion of happiness that takes the shape of a dialogue between contemplative knowledge and practice or the wisdom traditions and the social sciences. It explores topics such as the pursuit of a good life, the pursuit of eudaimonia and the meaning of economic and social suffering from the perspective of the social sciences.

The book specifically examines how these societal and educational changes have contributed to the transitory nature of emerging adulthood and the resulting consequences. The book provides a holistic and thorough examination of emerging adulthood in general and the parental dynamics present during this stage, in particular.

This book locates, organizes and summarizes information about the use of child indicators in an advocacy context. This book provides a framework for scholars in a variety of disciplines that will help them to structure their thinking about the use of such indicators in a public context.

This Brief provides perspectives on bringing together elements of learning and community approaches for promoting overall wellbeing. Starting with foundational concepts of community wellbeing and community learning, the briefs provides an exploration of constructs and ideas for exploring application.