Advances in Quality of Life Research 2001

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-2

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2. Monitoring, Assessing, and Modeling Quality of Life

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3

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   2. Wealth of Nations, Individual Income and Life Satisfaction in 42 Countries: A Multilevel Approach

      • Peggy Schyns

      Pages 5-40

   3. A Par Approach to Quality of Life: Modeling Health Through Participation

      • Shereen T. Ismael

      Pages 41-54

   4. Quality of Life in Europe: Objective and Subjective Indicators

      • Alessandra Petrucci, Silvana Schifini D’Andrea

      Pages 55-88

   5. Social Indicators and Living Conditions in the Netherlands

      • Jeroen Boelhouwer

      Pages 89-113

   6. An Introduction to the Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale

      • E. Scott Huebner, Rich Gilman

      Pages 115-122

   7. Self-Sustained Quality of Life Monitoring: The Philippine Social Weather Reports

      • Mahar Mangahas, Linda Luz Guerrero

      Pages 123-144

3. Policy, Finance, Marketing, and Business

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Welfare to Well-Being Transition

      • Bonnie Braun, Patricia D. Olson, Jean W. Bauer

      Pages 147-154

   3. A Behavioral Model to Optimize Financial Quality of Life

      • Esther M. Maddux

      Pages 155-177

   4. Public Policy and Diffusion of Innovation

      • Robert Owen, Alfred Ntoko, Ding Zhang, June Dong

      Pages 179-190

4. Determinants and Correlates of Well-Being and Quality of Life

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. Community Subjective Well-Being, Personality Traits and Quality of Life Therapy

      • David M. S. Kimweli, William E. Stilwell

      Pages 193-225

   3. I Want to Pretend I’m Eleven Years Younger: Subjective Age and Seniors’ Motives for Vacation Travel

      • Megan Cleaver, Thomas E. Muller

      Pages 227-241

   4. Access to Health Care: Social Determinants of Preventive Cancer Screening Use in Northern British Columbia

      • Joanne Bryant, Annette J. Browne, Sylvia Barton, Bruno D. Zumbo

      Pages 243-262

   5. Aspects of the Effect of Substance Use on Health, Wellness and Safety of Employees and Families in Northern Remote Work Sites

      • Sylvia S. Barton

      Pages 263-274

   6. Does Material Well-Being Affect Non-Material Well-Being?

      • Abbott L. Ferriss

      Pages 275-280

   7. Distribution of Household Income in America: Effects of Source of Income, Inflation, and Cost of Living Differentials

      • Mohamed Abdel-Ghany, Stephen J. Thoma

      Pages 281-297

   8. Does Business Process Reengineering Diminish the Quality of Work Life?

      • Forrest B. Green, Eric Hatch

      Pages 299-307

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.

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• Innovation
• Nation
• cancer screening
• health
• health care
• knowledge
• modeling
• quality of life
• quality of life research
• screening
• social indicators

• Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methodology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  Bruno D. Zumbo

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