Advances in Quality of Life Theory and Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Tests of Theories of Subjective Well-Being

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Two versions of the American dream: Which goals and values make for a high quality of life?

      • Tim Kasser

      Pages 3-12

   3. Stability in components and predictors of subjective well-being (SWB): implications for SWB structure

      • Albert Kozma, Susan Stone, M. J. Stones

      Pages 13-30

   4. An integrative explanation for quality of life: development and test of a structural model

      • Kent L. Granzin, Lois M. Haggard

      Pages 31-63

   5. Sense of well-being and perceived quality of life in Calcutta

      • Snehanshu K. Dasgupta, Sriya Majumdar

      Pages 65-79

3. Subjective Well-Being and Work: Income, Employment and Job Satisfaction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. The relationship between income, changes in income and life-satisfaction in West Germany and the Russian Federation: relative, absolute, or a combination of both?

      • Peggy Schyns

      Pages 83-109

   3. Job satisfaction, wages and allocation of men and women

      • Wim Groot, Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink

      Pages 111-128

   4. The job/life satisfaction relationship among professional accountants: psychological determinants and demographic differences

      • David Efraty, M. J. Sirgy, Phillip Siegel

      Pages 129-157

   5. Social participation and subjective well-being of long-term unemployed: why is paid work so hard to substitute for?

      • Alinda C. van Bruggen

      Pages 159-181

   6. Home-based employment and quality of life: a time-use analysis

      • William Michelson

      Pages 183-203

4. Societal Institutions of Quality of Life: Health Care Assessment and Political Representation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. Improving mental and physical health care through Quality of Life Therapy and assessment

      • Michael B. Frisch

      Pages 207-241

   3. Democratic governance: the need for equal representation of women

      • Derek Paul

      Pages 243-260

5. Back Matter

   Pages 261-266

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The International Society for Quality of Life Studies held its first conference in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1997. Participants at the conference were allowed to submit their papers for the present volume. The submitted manuscripts went through a review and revision process, and the papers in this book represent the best articles from that process. Because the society sponsoring this volume is international in character, it is not sur­ prising that the 11 contributions are from 4 different countries: Canada (3), India (1), Netherlands (3), and the United States (4). Thus, the volume is cross-national in authorship, although we hope that future works can include more papers from additional nations. Ten of the eleven papers consider quality of life in terms of some aspect of subjective well-being. The book is broken into three sections: the first section presenting material on broad theories of subjective well­ being, the second section covering how work and income are related to subjective well-being, and the third section containing one chapter on health and one on political representation. I am proud to present these broad-ranging chapters on quality of life.

• Change
• Evaluation
• Governance
• Import
• Institution
• Nation
• development
• organization

• University of Illinois, Champaign, USA

  Ed Diener

• College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA

  Don R. Rahtz

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