Haworth, J. and G. Hart (2007). Well-being: individual, community and social perspectives. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
This interdisciplinary edited volume focuses on well-being, exploring the connection between well-being and individual, community and social perspectives. The authors argue that well-being is a 'positive psychology' which is complex, multi-faceted, and intimately connected with issues like diversity, socioeconomic inequalities, and the physical, cultural and technological environment. The contributions seek to analyse well-being in theory and practice. Various dimensions of well-being provide clear links with debates on community, particularly in relation to: 'community empowerment' (chapter 2), social capital (chapter 4), and community psychology (chapter 4), societal inequality (chapter 9) and friendship, trust and mutuality (chapter 14).