Understanding Happiness: A Look into the Chinese Folk Psychology

By Luo Lu. 2001

267 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Ö. Şimşek
2. R. Gilmour
3. Jan Pflug
4. Dan Weijers
5. S. Kao
6. Cary L. Cooper
7. S. Filep
8. Mohsen Joshanloo

In Education

1. Ö. Şimşek
2. R. Gilmour
3. Jan Pflug
4. Dan Weijers
5. M. Deery
6. G. Walker
7. S. Filep
8. Andrew Spiers

In Social Psychology

1. Luo Lu
2. R. Gilmour
3. Jan Pflug
4. Mohsen Joshanloo
5. Ö. Şimşek
6. Dan Weijers
7. Zhenghui Chen
8. Gareth Davey

Citations in the corpus

• The transition to parenthood: Stress, resources, and gender differences in a Chinese society (2006, methodology): “This 14-item Chinese version has demonstrated good reliability and validity with both Chinese students (Kao & Lu, 2001) and community young adults (Lu, 2002, 2004; Tsai & Chen, 2002).”
• Aversion to Happiness Across Cultures: A Review of Where and Why People are Averse to Happiness (2014, background): “9 Lu & Gilmour, 2004). In a different empirical study, Lu and Gilmour (2006) also found”
• Perceived quality of life in Taiwan and Hong Kong: an intra-culture comparison (2005, background): “More specifically, the trinity of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism has formed the backbone of traditional Chinese culture, with each having distinct views on human well-being (Lu, 2001).”
• The Eudaimonic and Hedonic Components of Happiness: Qualitative and Quantitative Findings (2011, background): “For example, Lu (2001) asked college students in China and Taiwan to describe what happiness was for them.”
• Culture and conceptions of happiness: individual oriented and social oriented swb (2004, methodology): “This is exactly what we attempted in our systematic examination of Chinese SWB-related concepts and ideas in the Tripartite of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, as well as our detailed description of people’s lived experiences of happiness (Lu, 1998, 2001; Lu and Shih, 1997).”
• Work stress, control beliefs and well‐being in Greater China: An exploration of sub‐cultural differences between the PRC and Taiwan (2003, background): “The Chinese strategies of executing human agency are also different from the Western ones, as they focus on accepting and coming to terms with the results, no matter how good or bad ( Lu, 2001a, b”
• Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being (2018, unknown): “Oishi & Sullivan (2006); Robinson & Clore (2002); Scollon et al. (2004); Thomas & Diener (1990) Evaluative Well-Being People’s explicit evaluations and judgments of their lives, including both Life Satisfaction, Domain Satisfactions, and other evaluative judgments about their life.”
• Happiness Revisited: Ontological Well-Being as a Theory-Based Construct of Subjective Well-Being (2009, methodology): “This model of well-being, however, has been criticized because of its contamination with the a priori Western theoretical framework (Christopher 1999; Diener et al. 1998; Lu 2001).”
• The Psychometric Evaluation of the Satisfaction with Life Scale Using a Nationally Representative Sample of China (2011, background): “…effect of present and past meanings was not substantial in Hong Kong (Sachs 2003) and Taiwan samples (Wu and Yao 2006), given a finding that there is a time-oriented perspective on the nature of SWB for Chinese people (Lu 2001), this issue is still worth examining in a sample from Mainland China.”
• Towards a picture of tourists' happiness (2010, background): “The influence of tourism on the subterpretations remain to be further critically examjective wellbeing of host communities. In Exploring ined and possibly employed in future studies. Wellbeing Seminar. Melbourne, Australia: Victoria UniTourists’ experiences can sometimes be negative versity. and not”
• The Effects of Ethnicity and Leisure Satisfaction on Happiness, Peacefulness, and Quality of Life (2008, background): “Finally, with Buddhism, “Physical exercises, meditation, doing charitable deeds, eliminating all human desires are all ways to lift up the soul to reach nirvana and eternal happiness” (Lu, 2001, p. 412).”
• Individual-oriented and socially oriented cultural conceptions of subjective well-being: Conceptual analysis and scale development (2006, background): “We (Lu, 2001; Lu & Gilmour, 2004a) started by asking Chinese and American university students to write free-format essays under the title of ‘what is happiness?’”
• Leisure Time, Leisure Activities, and Happiness in China (2015, background): “Lu (2001), after investigating Chinese conceptualizations of happiness, added that Chinese happiness can be understood from three different philosophical perspectives: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.”
• Folk Theories of Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Conceptions of Happiness in Germany and South Africa (2009, background): “The answers were compared to a previous study on 142 Chinese students using the same methodology (Lu 2001).”
• Emergence and composition of the traditional‐modern bicultural self of people in contemporary Taiwanese societies (2006, background): “& Lu, L. (2005). Social- and individual-oriented self-”