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The Home Happiness Calculator - Further Reading and References


Further Reading

Aron, A., Aron, E. N., & Smollan, D. (1992). Inclusion of other in the self scale and the
structure of interpersonal closeness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
63, 596e612. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.63.4.596
 
Baumeister, R. F., & Leary, M. R. (1995). The need to belong: Desire to interpersonal
attachments as a fundamental human motivation. Psychological Bulletin, 117,
497e529. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0033-2909.117.3.497.
 
Berry, W. (1996). The unsettling of America: Culture and agriculture (Rev. ed.). San
Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
 
Boyle PA1, Barnes LL, Buchman AS, Bennett DA. Purpose in life is associated with mortality among community-dwelling older persons. Psychosom Med. 2009 Jun;71(5):574-9 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19414613
 
Davis, J. L., Green, J. D., & Reed, A. (2009). Interdependence with the environment:
Commitment, interconnectedness, and environmental behavior. Journal of
Environmental Psychology, 29, 173-180.
 
Durrett, C., & McCamant, K. (2011). Creating cohousing: Building sustainable communities.
New Society Publishers.
 
Hayden, D. (2002). Redesigning the American dream: Gender, housing, and family life
(Rev. ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
 
Mashek, D., Cannaday, L. W., & Tangney, J. P. (2007). Inclusion of community in self
scale: A single-item pictorial measure of community connectedness. Journal of
Community Psychology, 35, 257-275. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcop.20146
 
Mayer, F. S., & Frantz, C. M. (2004). The connectedness to nature scale: A measure of
individuals' feeling in community with nature. Journal of Environmental Psychology,
24, 503e515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2004.10.001.
 
McCamant, K., & Durrett, C. (1994). Cohousing: A contemporary approach to housing
ourselves (2nd ed.). California: Ten Speed Press.
 
Newman, O (1972). Defensible space: crime prevention through urban design - Macmillan
 
Sanguinetti, A., (2014). Transformational practices in cohousing: Enhancing residents' connection to community and nature. Journal of Environmental Psychology 40.86-96, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494414000450
 
Scannell, L., & Gifford, R. (2010). The relations between natural and civic place
attachment and pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology,
30, 289-297. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2010.01.010.

References

Nature and Happiness
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160420-how-nature-is-good-for-our-health-and-happiness
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-moment-youth/201403/does-nature-make-us-happy

Photos
All photos are used with permission directly from the photographer or according to the licensing terms

Isolated House: http://list25.com/25-unreal-isolated-houses-that-are-breathtakingly-beautiful/,  

image of McMansion: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pasa/15885428140, Paul Sableman

image of McMansion: https://www.flickr.com/photos/funnybusiness/5099360666, Elana Centor

Image of winder backpacker: https://www.pexels.com/photo/mountains-rocks-fresh-air-27310/

Photo of cars: [Damian Morys, Creative Commons]

Valentine Cookies: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kingautmanthe3rd/12415462745

Smokers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoking

Bars on window: https://pixabay.com/en/photos/window%20bars/

keys: https://www.pexels.com/photo/colorful-raw-security-key-68174/

Habitat for Humanity: https://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/14199058269
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