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A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of Life

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Filomena Maggino

    1. Applicazioni “G. Parenti” (DiSIA), Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Statistica, Informa, Firenze, Italy

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  • Presents a new research agenda for improvements in QoL research
  • Presents micro perspectives through qualitative and quantitative approaches
  • Defines new indicators measuring and monitoring social conditions
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 57)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Well-Being Indicators on Landscape and Cultural Heritage: The Experience of the BES Project

    • Luigi Costanzo, Alessandra Ferrara
    Pages 1-15

  3. Determinants of Student Satisfaction with Campus Residence Life at a South African University

    • Ferdi Botha, Jen Snowball, Vivian de Klerk, Sarah Radloff
    Pages 17-35

  4. Life on Social Housing Estates: Studying Housing Quality with an Ethnographic Approach

    • Livia Bruscaglioni, Erika Cellini, Barbara Saracino
    Pages 37-59

  5. Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: A Fresh Look at Satisfaction in Communities

    • Craig A. Talmage
    Pages 61-86

  6. Explaining the Ethnic Minority Disadvantage in Subjective Well-Being: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries

    • Thomas de Vroome, Marc Hooghe
    Pages 87-108

  7. Self-Evaluation Affects Subjective Well-Being: The Effects of Socioeconomic Status and Personality in Taiwan

    • Hsiu-Jen Yeh, Yeu-Sheng Hsieh, Ruey-Ming Tsay
    Pages 109-134

  8. The Impact of Government Size on Chinese Elders’ Life Satisfaction: 1998–2008

    • Song Gao, Xiangyi Meng
    Pages 135-161

  9. Leisure Activities and Quality of Life Among Older Adults in Spain

    • Raul Lardies-Bosque, Gloria Fernandez-Mayoralas, Fermina Rojo-Perez, Maria João Forjaz, Pablo Martinez-Martin, José-Manuel Rojo-Abuin et al.
    Pages 163-189

  10. Subjective Well-Being After the Onset of the Need for Personal Assistance and Care

    • Stefan Weick
    Pages 191-204

  11. Towards Satellite Accounts on Education and Human Capital in OECD Countries

    • Fabiola Riccardini
    Pages 205-230
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This book presents a new research agenda for improvements in Quality of Life research. It includes topics such as:

-Studying QoL in particular subpopulations and selected subgroups

-Disentangling the difficult task of identifying determinants of QoL

-Perfectionating the measurement of conceptual dimensions

-Defining new indicators able to measure and monitor particular social conditions and shows that these are not separated fields of studies but intersect each other and produce different outcomes which can be with difficulty classifiable, consistent with the idea of the complexity of our reality.

The volume presents micro perspectives by taking into account the macro situation through both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Applicazioni “G. Parenti” (DiSIA), Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Statistica, Informa, Firenze, Italy

    Filomena Maggino

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