Friendship and Happiness

Part I. Perspectives on Friendship and Happiness

Chapter 1. Friendship and Happiness from a Philosophical Perpective; Sandra Lynch

Chapter 2. Friendship and Happiness from a Sociological Perspective; Silvana Greco, Mary Holmes and Jordan McKenzie

Chapter 3. Friends and Happiness: An Evolutionary Perspective on Friendship; David Lewis, Laith Al-Shaway, Eric M. Russell and David M. Buss

Chapter 4. Friendship and Happiness: A Bidirectional Dynamic Process; Lina María Saldarriaga, William Bukowski and Carolina Greco

Part II. Friendship and Happiness across the Lifespan: Reviews of the Literature

Chapter 5. Children's Friendship and Positive Well-Being; Mark Holder and Ben Coleman

Chapter 6. Friendship and Happiness in Adolescence; Catherine L. Bagwell, Karen P. Kochel and Michelle E. Schmidt

Chapter 7. Friendship and Happiness among Young Adults; Melik?ah Demir, Haley Orthel, Metin Özdemir and Sevgi Özdemir

Chapter 8. Friendship and Happiness among Middle-Aged Adults; Katherine L. Fiori and Christy A. Denckla

Chapter 9. Friendship and Happiness in the Third Age; Rebecca Adams and Emily M. Taylor

Chapter 10. Cross-Sex Friendship and Happiness; Amanda Procsal, Melik?ah Demir, Aysun Do?an, Ayça Özen and Nebi Sümer

Chapter 11. Social Media, Friendship and Happiness in the Millennial Generation; Adriana M. Manago and Lanen Vaughn

Part III. Friendship and Happiness across Cultures

Chapter 12. Friendship and Happiness in Navajos (Bik'éí Diné Baa' Hózhó); Angela A.A. Willeto

Chapter 13. Friendship and Happiness in Latin America: A Review; Agnaldo Garcia, Fábio Nogueira Pereira and Maria Daniela Corrêa de Macedo

Chapter 14. Family, Friends and Subjective Well-Being: A Comparison between the West and Asia; Tianyuan Li and Sheung-Tak Cheng

Chapter 15. Attachment Avoidance Harms Friendship Quality and Life Satisfaction among Turkish Children; Nebi Sümer

Chapter 16. How Are Positve and Negative Peer Relations Related to Positive

Melik?ah Demir received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan, USA) in 2007 and has been working as an assistant professor at Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona, USA) since then. Since his graduate school years, Demir has been doing research on friendship and happiness in different age groups (e.g., Demir & Urberg, 2004; Demir & Weitekamp, 2007; Demir, 2010). His current research focuses on delineating the processes and mechanisms responsible for the friendship-happiness link (e.g., Demir & Ozdemir, 2010). Specifically, Melik?ah Demir is testing different theoretical models that could explain why friendship is related to happiness. He also conducts cross-cultural studies to examine whether the role of friendship in happiness is similar in different cultures. For instance, he was the principal investigator of a recently completed large scale cross cultural study on friendship and happiness (14 countries, over 3500 young adults).