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Gender, Lifespan and Quality of Life

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 53)

Editors: Eckermann, Elizabeth

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7829-0

ISBN: 978-94-007-7828-3

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Dec 11, 2013

1 - 10 of 16 Chapters

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Chapter 1Gender, Lifespan, Cultural Context and QOL

Eckermann, Elizabeth

Pages: 1 –6

[Systematic sex and age disaggregation of data has only happened over the past two decades, and gender analysis of quality of life patterns is even more recent. The dearth of analysis on the combined effects of gender and lifespan on quality of life is thus hardly surprising. The relationship...
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Chapter 2Personal Well-being and Interpersonal Communication of 12–16 Year-Old Girls and Their Own Mothers: Gender and Intergenerational Issues

González, Mònica; Figuer, Cristina; Malo, Sara; Casas, Ferran

Pages: 7 –24

[Perceptions and evaluations of a paired sample of girls aged 12–16 and their own mothers (N = 358) are analysed in relation to interactions, interpersonal communication and personal well-being related variables. The frequency with which adolescents and mothers share different daily activities is...
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Chapter 3Gender Dimensions of Life Quality for Adults in Australia

Cummins, Robert A.

Pages: 25 –47

[The results presented in this chapter are derived from the cumulative data base generated by 19 surveys of the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index conducted over the period 2001–2008. Each survey involves a fresh, national sample of 2,000 people. The results shed new light onto the way in which...
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Chapter 4Chasing the ‘Good Life’: Gender Differences in Work Aspirations of American Men and Women

Plagnol, Anke C.

Pages: 49 –61

[People’s views on what constitutes a ‘good life’ vary by sex, age and life stage. The shortfall between aspirations and attainments over the life course in family life and material goods domains corresponds closely to life course satisfaction with finances and family life. This chapter focuses...
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Chapter 5Gender Dimensions of Quality of Life in Algeria

Tiliouine, Habib

Pages: 63 –82

[This chapter addresses Quality of Life (QOL) and gender issues in the North African country of Algeria, through selected objective and subjective indicators. The former encompass opportunities in education, health, employment, and participation in public life; the latter include survey data from...
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Chapter 6Mothers and Quality of Life in 26 EU Countries

Michoń, Piotr

Pages: 83 –98

[This chapter aims to fill the gap in comparative research of mothers’ subjective well-being and life satisfaction in the relation to their paid and unpaid work. It addresses the positive and negative consequences for quality of life for women juggling family life and paid employment in 26...
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Chapter 7Gender and Age Differences in Subjective Well-being: Romania 1990–2005

Bălţătescu, Sergiu

Pages: 99 –114

[This paper studies the impact on quality of life of the post-communist transformations in Romania using the perspective of subjective well-being, a social indicator that shows individuals subjective evaluations of their lives. It focuses on the sex and age differences in subjective well-being in...
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Chapter 8Quality of Life for Pregnant and Recent Parity Women in Lao PDR

Eckermann, Elizabeth; Scopaz, Anna; Clarke, Matthew

Pages: 115 –133

[This chapter explores the relationship between health and quality of life for pregnant and recent parity women in Lao emphasizing the difficulties involved in using traditional measures of quality of life and proposing an alternative method of assessing well-being. Implicit within the analysis...
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Chapter 9Gender Dimensions of Subjective Well-being in Russia

Uglanova, Ekaterina

Pages: 135 –155

[In Russia, throughout the whole period of transition, men consistently demonstrated slightly higher levels of satisfaction with life. It is well known, however, that there is an interaction effect between gender, age, and subjective well-being. This chapter explores gender differences in...
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Chapter 10Re-marry Fast, Die Young

Michoń, Piotr

Pages: 157 –172

[Young women in Poland are on average happier than men. Although for most Poles happiness and life satisfaction decrease with age and depression rises, the difference between males and females changes in favour of the former. When they are between 40 and 50 years of age, males become, on average,...

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