Title: Culture and positive psychology - Wikipedia
Headings: Culture and positive psychology
Culture and positive psychology
Contents
Overview
History
Major theories
Western philosophy
Eastern philosophy
Cultural differences in the concept of well-being
Viewpoints within positive psychology
Approaches
Major empirical findings
Cultural differences and the good life
Cultural differences in well-being, meaning, and hope
Well-being
Meaning
Hope
Applications
Applications of strengths theory across cultures
Controversies
Overstatement of sample and cohort differences
Nonstandardized measurement of emotion
See also
References
Further reading

Content: Contents
1 Overview
2 History
3 Major theories
3.1 Western philosophy
3.2 Eastern philosophy
3.3 Cultural differences in the concept of well-being
3.4 Viewpoints within positive psychology
4 Approaches
5 Major empirical findings
5.1 Cultural differences and the good life
5.2 Cultural differences in well-being, meaning, and hope
5.2.1 Meaning
5.2.2 Hope
6 Applications
6.1 Applications of strengths theory across cultures
7 Controversies
7.1 Overstatement of sample and cohort differences
7.2 Nonstandardized measurement of emotion
8 See also
9 References
10 Further reading
Overview
Research shows that cultural factors affect notions of perceived happiness. The current general literature discusses positive psychology into two categories: Western and Eastern. Cultural psychologist Richard Shweder argues that these factors help shape what people deem is good, moral, and virtuous. Westerners seek rewards on more of a physical plane, while Easterners seek to transcend the physical plane to a spiritual one. Western literature generally stresses autonomy, individuality, and personal satisfaction, while Eastern work generally focuses on harmony, collective cooperation, and group satisfaction. Despite cultural differences in many concepts of interest to positive psychology, the overwhelming majority of intervention studies are conducted using samples drawn from Western cultures. Recent studies show that happiness is a relatively new concept of positive psychology and that the meaning behind positive psychology is more complex than once thought. For the purpose of study, happiness was broken down into two different factors: endogenic and exogenic.