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A Life Devoted to Quality of Life

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 60)

Editors: Maggino, Filomena

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20568-7

ISBN: 978-3-319-20567-0

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jun 29, 2015

1 - 10 of 17 Chapters

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Children, Adolescents and Quality of Life: The Social Sciences Perspective Over Two Decades

Casas, Ferran

Pages: 3 –21

[In the first ISQOLS international conference (1996) in Prince George (Canada) the topic of children’s and adolescents’ quality of life was absolutely minoritarian – and even more minoritarian was the presence of research using children’s or adolescents’ subjective indicators. Although children’s...
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Measuring Trends in Child Well-Being and Child Suffering in the United States, 1975–2013

Land, Kenneth C.; Lamb, Vicki L.; Fu, Qiang

Pages: 23 –41

[This chapter reviews the phenomenological/ethnographic positive well-being and quantitative positive psychology approaches to the conceptualization and measurement of child and youth well-being. It then describes how the Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI) has used the results of subjective...
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The Role of Positive Youth Development and Family Functioning in Chinese Adolescent Well-Being: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Shek, Daniel T. L.

Pages: 43 –58

[In many social science theories, personal and environmental factors have been proposed to be factors governing adolescent well-being. On the personal level, there are views proposing that positive youth development attributes (such as resilience, spirituality and psychosocial competence) are...
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The Theory of Subjective Wellbeing Homeostasis: A Contribution to Understanding Life Quality

Cummins, Robert A.

Pages: 61 –79

[The Theory of Subjective Wellbeing Homeostasis forms part of the scientific legacy facilitated by Alex Michalos. The theory arose through conceptual overlap between physiological notions of homeostasis and understanding the remarkable degree of stability in subjective wellbeing data. This...
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Do People Adapt to Poorer Health? Health and Health Satisfaction over the Life Cycle

Easterlin, Richard A.

Pages: 81 –92

[As people get older, health deteriorates and so too does satisfaction with health. Moreover, differences in health and health satisfaction by gender are positively associated, as are differences by race, education, and cohort. These findings are based on an analysis of data from the United...
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Progress: Concept and Measurement

Noll, Heinz-Herbert

Pages: 93 –104

[The idea of progress, which is usually considered to be a child of the age of enlightenment and a ‘trademark’ of modernity, has seen a remarkable revival in recent years in conceptual as well as measurement terms. Apparently, the renewed interest is closely related to the currently flourishing...
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A Hierarchy of Unsatisfied Needs: A Subjective Well-Being Study

Rojas, Mariano; Guardiola, Jorge

Pages: 105 –122

[This chapter studies the role that unsatisfied needs have in depressing people’s well-being. The chapter studies how the discrepancy between what people have and what they would like to have influences their life satisfaction. Even though it is less ambitious, the research project gets...
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An Essay in Honors of Alex Michalos: Finding Community in Quality of Life

Phillips, Rhonda

Pages: 123 –130

[Community is a nebulous concept in many aspects, as is quality of life and related concepts. At the same time, there are several aspects that cross between these areas, and are mutually supportive. Given the need and importance of community, it is tied intricately to well-being and quality of...
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Towards a New Concept of Residential Well-Being Based on Bottom-Up Spillover and Need Hierarchy Theories

Sirgy, M. Joseph

Pages: 131 –150

[This chapter reviews the various conceptualizations of residential well-being and introduces a new conceptualization. The new concept of residential well-being is defined as satisfaction with one’s living arrangement captured by one’s home and its immediate surrounding (i.e., community) to the...
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What We Have Learnt About Happiness

Veenhoven, Ruut

Pages: 151 –170

[Happiness has long been a subject for philosophers. A main question was whether greater happiness for a greater number is possible. Enlightened progress optimists envisioned that happiness can be furthered by the use of reason, but pessimists claimed that happiness is too elusive to grasp and...

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