Very soon after the fall of the communism, Romania was confronted with an economic crisis that went on for almost ten years. With the objective of entering NATO and EU accomplished, and GDP rising to unprecedented levels, subjective well-being levels of Romanians returned to those from 1990....

Ten of the post-communist countries managed to integrate into EU. Which are the subjective outcomes of socio-economic transformations in these countries? Did they manage to increase their citizens’ happiness in this process? To give an answer to these questions I used data from Candidate...

Most social scientists converge to the view that trust has important effects on individual and social well-being. There are, however two categories of objects of trust: persons (interpersonal trust) and institutions (governmental institutions, political parties and so on). Moreover, any of these...

The book tackles the theme of intercultural dialogue, ethnicity and confession through the lens of minority-majority relations, and also the mechanism for managing inter-ethnic and inter-confessional relations at the Eastern border of the EU. The selection of the conference works was done taking...

Among the European countries, Romania is one of the most religious. Even if is a secular state, only 0.1% of the citizens declare themselves to be of no religion and/or atheist (data based on the 2002 census). Almost all of the citizens are Christians, affiliated with the Romanian Orthodox...

Life satisfaction, a global cognitive evaluation of one’s life, is a very frequently used indicator in quality of life research. This construct is usually measured by simple scales, differing one from another by the phrasing of questions and by the number of answer categories. Giving the need...

The present volume discusses the roles of higher education reaching beyond the traditional, direct functions of higher educational institutions. In this volume the initial findings of the project titled HERD: Higher Education for Social Cohesion – Cooperative Research and Development in a...

This is an appeal for enriching the mental health well-being dimensions of youth policy with the experience of quality of life and children well-being theorizing and research. The conceptual switches that characterize the 'children well-being' movement (from survival to well-being, from negative...