Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research / Edition 1

by M. Joseph Sirgy, Don Rahtz, A. Coskun Samli

Overview

Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research is relevant to quality-of-life researchers working in the areas of Social Medicine, Sustainable Development, Social Indicators Research and Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine.

This volume contains 14 chapters that represent a culmination of programmatic research in the science of quality of life (QOL). Each chapter offers interesting findings in different areas of QOL research and, together, the chapters reflect the very basic premise that QOL research is a broad interdisciplinary topic explored in a multidisciplinary manner. The research methods and conceptual models used by the different authors are exemplary and can induce QOL researchers to conduct future research in QOL in other cultures, geographic areas, and different socio-economic and demographic groups as well as in different QOL domains.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048163649
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/09/2010
Series:	Social Indicators Research Series , #20
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003
Pages:	269
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

M. Joseph Sirgy is a personality/social/industrial psychologist who has written extensively on the subject of quality-of-life. He is the director of the Office of Quality-of-Life Measurement (OQOLM) and a professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the USA. He is also the executive director of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS).

Table of Contents

1 A Model for Food Service Delivery and Quality of Life in Long-Term Care Facilities.- 2 Happiness of Women and Men in Later Life: Nature, Determinants, and Prospects.- 3 Consumer Income and Beliefs Affecting Happiness.- 4 Emotional Well-being among Older persons: A Comparative Analysis of the 70+ Population in Japan and the United States.- 5 Quality of Life and Positive Youth Development in Grahamstown East, South Africa.- 6 Socioeconomic Development and Quality of Life in Italy.- 7 Poverty and Inequality of Standard of Living and Quality of Life in Great Britain.- 8 Abuse and Neglect of Disabled and Non-disabled Children.- 9 Climate as a Component of Objective Quality of Life in Countries of the World.- 10 Toward the Development of a Measure of Retail Quality of Life for Color-Deficient Consumers.- 11 Quality of Life Assessment in Child and Adolescent Health Care: The Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS).- 12 Predictive Validity and Sensitivity to Change in Quality of Life Assessment and Life Satisfaction.- 13 Measuring Quality of Life of Apparel Workers in Mumbia, India.- 14 Different Scales for Different Survey Methods: Validation in Measuring the Quality of University Life.