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Essays on the Quality of Life

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  • © 2003

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  1. Alex C. Michalos
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Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 19)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Quality-of-Life Research

    • Alex C. Michalos
    Pages 1-4

  3. Combining Social, Economic and Environmental Indicators to Measure Sustainable Human Well-Being

    • Alex C. Michalos
    Pages 5-33

  4. Evaluation of Equality Policies for The Status of Women in Canada

    • Alex C. Michalos
    Pages 35-62

  5. Militarism and the Quality of Life

    • Alex C. Michalos
    Pages 63-88

  6. Migration and the Quality of Life: A Review Essay

    • Alex C. Michalos
    Pages 89-122

  7. Job Satisfaction, Marital Satisfaction and the Quality of Life: A Review and a Preview

    • Alex C. Michalos
    Pages 123-144

  8. Discrepancies Between Perceived Income Needs and Actual Incomes

    • Alex C. Michalos
    Pages 145-147

  9. Optimism in Thirty Countries over a Decade

    • Alex C. Michalos
    Pages 149-151

  10. Health and the Quality of Life

    • Bruno D. Zumbo, Anita Hubley
    Pages 153-182

  11. Health and other Aspects of the Quality of Life of Older People

    • Anita M. Hubley, Bruno D. Zumbo, Dawn Hemingway
    Pages 183-205

  12. Healthy Days, Health Satisfaction and Satisfaction with the Overall Quality of Life

    • Bruno D. Zumbo
    Pages 207-216

  13. Leisure Activities, Health and the Quality of Life

    • Bruno D. Zumbo
    Pages 217-238

  14. Social Indicators Research and Health-Related Quality of Life Research

    • Alex C. Michalos
    Pages 239-271

  15. Public Services and the Quality of Life

    • Bruno D. Zumbo
    Pages 273-295

  16. Criminal Victimization and the Quality of Life

    • Bruno D. Zumbo
    Pages 297-331

  17. Policing Services and the Quality of Life

    • Alex C. Michalos
    Pages 333-344

  18. Feminism and the Quality of Life

    • Deborah C. Poff
    Pages 345-365

  19. Ethnicity, Modern Prejudice and the Quality of Life

    • Bruno D. Zumbo
    Pages 367-389

  20. The Impact of Trust on Business, International Security and the Quality of Life

    • Alex C. Michalos
    Pages 391-415
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Since initiating the journal Social Indicators Research in 1974, Alex C. Michalos has been a pioneer in social indicators and quality-of-life research. This collection of nineteen articles provides an overview of nearly 30 years of work, including papers drawn from diverse sources and papers never published before. Topics range over quality of life investigations connected to the problems of combining social, economic and environmental indicators, measuring the status of women in Canada, housing and migration, health and human well-being, older peoples' well-being, leisure activities and health, impact of public services, police services, criminal victimization, feminism and ethnic relations on the quality of life. The final paper, on multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), is the author's unique contribution to an empirically testable new foundation for theories of utility, satisfaction and happiness.

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