Advances in Quality of Life Theory and Research
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 revie
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Social Indicators Research Series Volume 4
General Editor: ALEX C. MICHALOS
University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada
Editors: ED DIENER
University of Illinois, Champaign, U.S.A. WOLFGANG GLATZER
1. W Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany TORBJORN MOUM
University of Oslo, Norway JOACHIM VOGEL Central Bureau of Statistics, Stockholm, Sweden RUUT VEENHOVEN
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
This new series aims to provide a public forum for single treatises and collections of papers on social indicators research that are too long to be published in our journal Social Indicators Research. Like the journal, the book series deals with statistical assessments of the quality of life from a broad perspective. It welcomes the research on a wide variety of substantive areas, including health, crime, housing, education, family life, leisure activities, transportation, mobility, economics, work, religion and environmental issues. These areas of research will focus on the impact of key issues such as health on the overall quality of life and vice versa. An international review board, consisting of Ruut Veenhoven, Joachim Vogel, Ed Diener, Torbjorn Mourn and Wolfgang Glatzer, will ensure the high quality of the series as a whole.
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
ADVANCES IN QUALITY OF LIFE THEORY AND RESEARCH
Edited by
EDDIENER
DONR. RAHTZ
University of Illinois, Champaign, USA
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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ISBN 978-94-010-5859-9 ISBN 978-94-011-4291-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-4291-5
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Table of contents Preface List of Contributors Section I:
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Tests of theories of subjective well-being Two versions of the American Dream: which goals and values make for a high quality of life? Tim Kasser
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Stability in components and predictors of sUbjective well-being (SWB): implications for SWB structure Albert Kozma, Susan Stone and MoJo Stones
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An integrative explanation for quality of life: development and test of a structural model Kent L. Granzin and Lois Mo Haggard
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Sense of well-being and perceived quality of life in Calcutta Snehanshu K. Dasgupta and Sriya Majumdar
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Section II: Subjective well-being and work: income, employment and job satisfaction The relationship between income, changes in income and life-satisfaction in West Germany and the Russian Federation: absolute, rela
