Advances In Quality Of Life Research 2001 (social Indicators Research Series)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-2 Front Matter....Pages 3-3 Wealth of Nations, Individual Income and Life Satisfaction in 42 Countries: A Multilevel Approach....Pages 5-40 A Par Approach to Quality of Life: Modeling Health Through Participation....Pages 41-54 Quality of Life in Europe: Objective and Subjective Indicators....Pages 55-88 Social Indicators and Living Conditions in the Netherlands....Pages 89-113 An Introduction to the Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale....Pages 115-122 Self-Sustained Quality of Life Monitoring: The Philippine Social Weather Reports....Pages 123-144 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 Welfare to Well-Being Transition....Pages 147-154 A Behavioral Model to Optimize Financial Quality of Life....Pages 155-177 Public Policy and Diffusion of Innovation....Pages 179-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 Community Subjective Well-Being, Personality Traits and Quality of Life Therapy....Pages 193-225 I Want to Pretend I’m Eleven Years Younger: Subjective Age and Seniors’ Motives for Vacation Travel....Pages 227-241 Access to Health Care: Social Determinants of Preventive Cancer Screening Use in Northern British Columbia....Pages 243-262 Aspects of the Effect of Substance Use on Health, Wellness and Safety of Employees and Families in Northern Remote Work Sites....Pages 263-274 Does Material Well-Being Affect Non-Material Well-Being?....Pages 275-280 Distribution of Household Income in America: Effects of Source of Income, Inflation, and Cost of Living Differentials....Pages 281-297 Does Business Process Reengineering Diminish the Quality of Work Life?....Pages 299-307 Unequal Perceived Quality of Life among Elderly Italians: Different Satisfaction Levels in Selected Spheres of Life....Pages 309-334 Back Matter....Pages 335-335