Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zumbo, Bruno D[Herausgeber]

Titel

Advances in Quality of Life Research 2001

Ist Teil von

• Social Indicators Research Series : 17

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Section I. Monitoring, Assessing, and Modeling Quality of Life -- Wealth of Nations, Individual Income and Life Satisfaction in 42 Countries: A Multilevel Approach -- A PAR Approach to Quality of Life: Modeling Health Through Participation -- Quality of Life in Europe: Objective and Subjective Indicators -- Social Indicators and Living Conditions in the Netherlands -- An Introduction to the Multidimensional Students�́� Life Satisfaction Scale -- Self-Sustained Quality of Life Monitoring: The Philippine Social Weather Reports -- Section II. Policy, Finance, Marketing, and Business -- Welfare to Well-Being Transition -- A Behavioral Model to Optimize Financial Quality of Life -- Public Policy and Diffusion of Innovation -- Section III. Determinants and Correlates of Well-Being and Quality of Life -- Community Subjective Well-Being, Personality Traits and Quality of Life Therapy -- I Want to Pretend I�́�m Eleven Years Younger: Subjective Age and Seniors�́� Motives for Va
• The knowledge base in the domains of quality of life, well-being, and subjective well-being is continuing to grow at a rapid rate. In light of this growth, and the interest it reflects on the part of scholars, practitioners, and policy makers internationally, this book will play an important role in bringing scholars and students up to date on diverse topics and promoting and encouraging research in the field of quality-of-life (QOL) studies. Unlike most other similar publications quality of life studies is broadly construed to involve all of the social and health sciences. This volume has much to offer the reader. The papers reflect a diversity of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, it contains material on (a) the monitoring, assessing, and modelling of quality of life, (b) matters of policy, finance, marketing, and business, and (c) papers devoted to the determinants and correlates of well-being and quality of life