Daniela Moza is one of the most promising young researchers from ”the new wave” of Romanian Psychology, who genuinely assumed one of the most challenging topics of our contemporary social life: the diverse facets of happiness and their embodiment. This book is a result of a doctoral project that proved a significant originality and novelty. By including in this book six comprehensive studies focused on cultural factors related with individual happiness, Daniela Moza offers us an impressive overview of this changing field of knowledge, bringing a consistent contribution to the scientific literature of this topic. By quantity, variety, profoundness, originality and relevance, the entire work reported in this book is remarkably broad in its scope and by following all its empirical demonstrations the reader could find a coherent way for better understanding the crucial role of self-construal as predictor for happiness.

Alin Gavreliuc – Professor PhD,

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Sociology and Psychology,

West University of Timisoara