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Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research

  • Reference work
  • © 2023

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Editors:
  1. Filomena Maggino

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

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  • The first comprehensive and in-depth resource on quality of life and well-being research
  • Covers quality of life research from social and behavioral perspectives
  • Includes around 500 new and updated entries

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Table of contents (6518 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-clxvi
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  2. A

    1. 4-Day Week

      Pages 1-1

    2. Abandonment

      Pages 1-1

    3. Abilities

      Pages 1-1

    4. Ability to Cope

      Pages 1-1

    5. Aboriginal

      Pages 1-1

    6. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

      Pages 1-1

    7. Aboriginal Community Well-Being Index

      • Erin O’Sullivan, Sacha Senécal
      Pages 1-5

    8. Aboriginal Education

      Pages 5-5

    9. Aboriginal Health

      Pages 5-5

    10. Aboriginal Inequality

      Pages 5-5

    11. Aboriginal Knowledge

      Pages 5-5

    12. Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Canada (APS)

      • Gérard Duhaime, Sébastien Lévesque
      Pages 5-8

    13. Absence of Anxiety

      Pages 8-8

    14. Absence of Psychopathology

      Pages 8-8

    15. Absolute Individual Deprivation in Europe

      Pages 8-8

    16. Absolute Poverty Line

      Pages 8-8

    17. Absolute Subjective Well-Being (ASWB)

      Pages 8-8

    18. Abstention from Voting

      Pages 8-8

    19. Abundance

      Pages 8-8
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About this book

This 2nd edition is a definitive resource on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life, including health-related quality of life research or also called patient-reported outcomes research. Altogether 500 new and updated entries appear in this new edition. This single, multidimensional reference work connects the most salient and important contributions to the relevant fields from the behavioral and social sciences as well as health and healthcare. New topics in this 2nd edition are on disabilities, religion/spirituality, sex, sports, politics, government, science, literature, performance and visual arts, environmental quality and sustainable development. The 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-being Research is an indispensable reference point for future research and writing topics on quality of life.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

    Filomena Maggino

About the editor

Filomena Maggino is a Full Professor of Social Statistics at the Sapienza University of Rome. She is also Coordinator of the Department for Integral Wellbeing at the Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis. She previously was Advisor to the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte from 2018 to 2021 and President of "Control Room Benessere Italia," under the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers from 2019 to 2021.

Prof. Maggino’s scientific interests and research expertise include: indicators (definition and construction, systems, synthesis, social indicators); statistics and complexity (statistical analysis in complex system; forecasting in complex systems); survey design and analysis (questionnaire construction and definition, and sampling design); Big Data (in official statistics and social indicators; data mining); representing and communicating complex data; statistics and political communication; and applications to measuring the quality of life, quality of society, inequalities and analyzing the well-being of nations.

She is Editor-in-Chief of the Social Indicators Research journal (Springer) and has authored, edited and co-edited several publications, volumes, and books, mainly in international contexts. In addition, she is also President and co-founder of the Italian Association for Quality-of-Life Studies and Scientific Director and co-founder of the Cyber Security and International Relations Laboratory (CIRLab) and was Past-president of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies and chair and organizer of two ISQOLS conferences (Florence, 2009; Venice, 2012). She has also been an advisor to several governmental organizations and member of numerous national and international committees, international associations, editorial boards of scientific journals, and scientific committees of national and international conferences. Prof. Maggino has been chair and organizer of several international and national scientific conferences and been invited as keynote speaker and lecturer all over the world, and awarded with several recognitions for her work—including the Officer of the Order "Of Merit of the Italian Republic".


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