Essays on the quality of life
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Bibliographic Information
Essays on the quality of life
(Social indicators research series, v. 19)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2003
Available at 13 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Since initiating the journal Social Indicators Research in 1974, Alex C. Michalos has been a pioneer in social indicators and quality-of-life research. This collection of nineteen articles provides an overview of nearly 30 years of work, including papers drawn from diverse sources and papers never published before. The final paper, on multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), is the author's unique contribution to an empirically testable new foundation for theories of utility, satisfaction and happiness.
Table of Contents
Preface. Acknowledgments.
1. Reflections on twenty-five years of quality-of-life research.
2. Combining social, economic and environmental indicators to measure sustainable human well-being.
3. Evaluation of equality policies for the status of women in Canada.
4. Militarism and the quality of life.
5. Migration and the quality of life.
6. Job satisfaction, marital satisfaction and the quality of life.
7. Discrepancies between perceived income needs and actual incomes.
8. Optimism in 30 countries over a decade.
9. Health and the quality of life (with B.D. Zumbo, A. Hubley.)
10. Health and other aspects of the quality of life of older people (with A. Hubley, B.D. Zumbo, D. Hemingway.)
11. Healthy days, health satisfaction and satisfaction with the overall quality of life (with B.D. Zumbo.)
12. Leisure activities, health and the quality of life (with B.D. Zumbo.)
13. Social indicators research and health-related quality of life research.
14. Public services and the quality of life (with B.D. Zumbo.)
15. Criminal victimization and the quality of life (with B.D. Zumbo.)
16. Policing services and the quality of life.
17. Feminism and the quality of life (with D.C. Poff.)
18. Ethnicity, modern prejudice and the quality of life (with B.D. Zumbo.)
19. The impact of trust on business, international security and the quality of life.
20. Multiple discrepancies theory (MDT).
Index.
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