Family Well-Being European Perspectives

This ground-breaking work plugs a yawning gap in the methods developed by social scientists to measure ‘well-being’, which to date have not featured a targeted measure of this variable for family groups. As Southern European societies crack under the stra

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Social Indicators Research Series Volume 49 General Editor: ALEX C. MICHALOS Brandon University, Faculty of Arts Office Brandon, Manitoba Canada Editors: ED DIENER University of Illinois, Champaign, USA WOLFGANG GLATZER J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany TORBJORN MOUM University of Oslo, Norway MIRJAM A.G. SPRANGERS University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands JOACHIM VOGEL Central Bureau of Statistics, Stockholm, Sweden RUUT VEENHOVEN Eramus 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 long to be published in journal Social Indicators Research. Like the journal, the book series deals with statistal 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, economcs, 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 Moum, Airjam A.G. Sprangers and Wolfgang Glantzer, will ensure the high quality of the series as a hole.

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Family Well-Being European Perspectives

Editor Almudena Moreno Mínguez Department of Sociology and Social Work Universidad de Valladolid, Segovia, Spain

ISSN 1387-6570 ISBN 978-94-007-4353-3 ISBN 978-94-007-4354-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4354-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2012943271 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, eve