The second edition will be an update and further elaboration of the
literature related to subjective well-being, happiness, and life
satisfaction. It will have a new substantial section that focuses on
reviewing much of the literature of subjective well-being within
specific life domains (social life, material life, leisure life, work
life, community life, spiritual life, family life, health life, sex
life, travel life, etc.) In the 1st edition the research in these
various life domains was discussed only briefly. The second edition will
maintain the same organizational structure of the first edition; that
is, Part 1 will focus on introduction (definitions and distinctions;
examples of measures of subjective well-being, happiness, and life
satisfaction; and motives underlying subjective well-being). Part 2 will
focus on psychological strategies that are allow people to optimize
subjective well-being by engaging in psychological processes related to
the relationship between and among life domains (e.g., social life,
family life, love life, spiritual life, community life, financial life,
etc.) This part will contain four chapters related to these various
"inter-domain" processes: bottom-up spillover, top-down spillover,
horizontal spillover, and compensation. Part 3 of the book will focus on
"intra-domain" psychological strategies designed to optimize subjective
well-being. These include re-evaluation based on personal history,
re-evaluation based on self-concept, re-evaluation based on social
comparison, goal selection, goal implementation and attainment, and
re-appraisal. Part 4 of the book will focus on balance processes-how
people attempt to create balance in their lives using psychological
processes within specific life domains (intra-domain strategies) and
processes that relate one domain to another (inter-domain strategies).
