Essays on the Quality of Life

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

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.

• Evaluation
• Nation
• environment
• migration
• prejudice
• quality of life
• quality of life research
• social indicators

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