1. Introduction: Quality of Life in Countries Undergoing Rapid Social Change

   • Wolfgang Glatzer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 2

2. Crossnational Differences in Happiness: Economic and Cultural Factors Explored

   • Peggy Schyns

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 26

3. Quality of Life in South Africa: Post-Apartheid Trends

   • Valerie Møller

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 68

4. East Asian Newly Industrializing Countries: Economic Growth and Quality of Life

   • Kwong-Leung Tang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 96

5. Quality of Life in Transition Countries: Central East Europe with Special Reference to Croatia

   • Igor Matutinović

   OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 119

6. Changes in Living Standards and Depopulation in Latvia in the 1990s

   • Pēteris Zvidriņš

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 140

7. The Changing Quality of Life in a Post-Communist Country: The Case of Czech Republic

   • Michal Illner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 170

8. Subjective Attendants of Unification and Transformation in Germany

   • Wolfgang Glatzer
   • Mathias Bös

   OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 196

9. Transformation and Anomie: Problems of Quality of Life in Bulgaria

   • Nikolai Genov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 197 - 209