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Advances in Quality of Life Theory and Research

Author : Ed Diener
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401142912
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in Quality of Life Theory and Research by : Ed Diener

Download or read book Advances in Quality of Life Theory and Research written by Ed Diener and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 review and revision process, and the papers in this book represent the best articles from that process. Because the society sponsoring this volume is international in character, it is not sur prising that the 11 contributions are from 4 different countries: Canada (3), India (1), Netherlands (3), and the United States (4). Thus, the volume is cross-national in authorship, although we hope that future works can include more papers from additional nations. Ten of the eleven papers consider quality of life in terms of some aspect of subjective well-being. The book is broken into three sections: the first section presenting material on broad theories of subjective well being, the second section covering how work and income are related to subjective well-being, and the third section containing one chapter on health and one on political representation. I am proud to present these broad-ranging chapters on quality of life.

Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research

Author : M. Joseph Sirgy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401703876
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research by : M. Joseph Sirgy

Download or read book Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research written by M. Joseph Sirgy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is relevant to quality-of-life researchers working in the areas of social medicine, sustainable development, social indicators research and health psychology/behavioral medicine. It represents a culmination of programmatic research in the science of QOL. The research methods and conceptual models used are exemplary and can induce QOL researchers to conduct future research in other cultures, geographic areas, and different socio-economic and demographic groups as well as in different QOL domains.

Advances in Quality of Life Research 2001

Author : Bruno D. Zumbo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940159970X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in Quality of Life Research 2001 by : Bruno D. Zumbo

Download or read book Advances in Quality of Life Research 2001 written by Bruno D. Zumbo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The knowledge base in the domains of quality of life, well-being, and subjective well-being is continuing to grow at a rapid rate. In light of this growth, and the interest it reflects on the part of scholars, practitioners, and policy makers internationally, this book will play an important role in bringing scholars and students up to date on diverse topics and promoting and encouraging research in the field of quality-of-life (QOL) studies. Unlike most other similar publications quality of life studies is broadly construed to involve all of the social and health sciences. This volume has much to offer the reader. The papers reflect a diversity of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, it contains material on (a) the monitoring, assessing, and modelling of quality of life, (b) matters of policy, finance, marketing, and business, and (c) papers devoted to the determinants and correlates of well-being and quality of life.

Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World

Author : Wolfgang Glatzer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402029039
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World by : Wolfgang Glatzer

Download or read book Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World written by Wolfgang Glatzer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfgang Glatzer Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitiit Franlifurt am Main, Germany ABSTRACT Challenges for the quality of life in the contemporary world were the focus of the Fifth International Quality of Life-Conference in Frankfurt am Main in the year 2003, hosted and organized by the Interna tional Society for Quality of Life Studies. The first part of this introductory article is concerned with a general assessment of contemporary quality of life research. At present, the concept of quality of life is a kind of umbrella which keeps together a reasonable number of international social scientists who have similar research interests. The second part of the introduction describes the topics of this book: The five chapters are concerned with the societal goal discussion on quality of life, the scientific monitoring of quality of life, the economic challenges for quality of life, its cultural challenges, and finally the options and restrictions for improving quality of life. Altogether, the contributions are related to present interna tional investigations and discussions of basic questions of quality of life. ATTENTION FOR QUALITY OF LIFE Challenges for the quality of life in the contemporary world were the focus at the Fifth International Quality of Life-Conference in Frankfurt am Main in the year 2003, hosted and organized by the International Society for Quality of Life Studies. There are new threats and new prospects for the quality of life in each generation, and securing and improving quality of life is a never-ending task.

The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment

Author : Mark E. Maruish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135630445
Total Pages : 1031 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment by : Mark E. Maruish

Download or read book The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment written by Mark E. Maruish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised and greatly expanded third edition of a classic reference, now three volumes, constitutes an invaluable resource for practitioners who in a managed care era need to focus their testing not on the general goals of personality assessment, symptom identification, and diagnosis so often presented to them as students and trainees, but on specific questions: What course of treatment should this person receive? How is it going? Was it effective?

Advancing Quality of Life in a Turbulent World

Author : Richard J. Estes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402051107
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Advancing Quality of Life in a Turbulent World by : Richard J. Estes

Download or read book Advancing Quality of Life in a Turbulent World written by Richard J. Estes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economically advanced nations have made significant progress toward meeting the basic needs of their populations; the majority of developing countries have not. The thirteen papers in this volume explore a broad range of factors that impact on quality of life worldwide: globalization, regionalization, recently regained political autonomy, migration, health and illness, food and agriculture, the family, and the contribution of faith and spirituality in advancing personal and collective well-being in a turbulent world.

The Psychology of Quality of Life

Author : M. Joseph Sirgy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402008009
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis The Psychology of Quality of Life by : M. Joseph Sirgy

Download or read book The Psychology of Quality of Life written by M. Joseph Sirgy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-08-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes much of the research in subjective well-being and integrates this research into a parsimonious theory. The theory posits that much of the research on subjective well-being can be construed in terms of the personal strategies that people use to `optimize' their happiness and life satisfaction. These strategies include bottom-up spillover, top-down spillover, horizontal spillover, balance, re-evaluation, goal selection, and goal implementation.

Quality of Life and the Millennium Challenge

Author : Valerie Møller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402085699
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Quality of Life and the Millennium Challenge by : Valerie Møller

Download or read book Quality of Life and the Millennium Challenge written by Valerie Møller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new millennium is widely considered to be the age of globalisation, democratisation, and human rights. We live in a knowledge society and in a time of risk and uncertainty. World society is rapidly urbanising and ageing and exhausting its natural resources. It is the interplay of such key trends of the era that calls for a fresh approach to measuring quality of life. This collection of papers presents an innovative approach to evaluating living standards and wellbeing under the new circumstances facing individuals and societies in twenty-first century. Contributions cover a wide range of issues that impact positively and negatively on wellbeing in our age. While stability, trust, equal access to resources and the social integration of disadvantaged members of society enhance well-being, poverty, social exclusion, congestion in cities, HIV/AIDS and global warming pose threats to both modern and traditional lifestyles. Methodological refinements of conventional measurement tools are presented that take into consideration the rich diversity of lifestyles and values among different populations and regions of the world. This book will be essential reading for social scientists and ordinary citizens who are concerned about the future of human well-being on our planet.

Quality of Life Research

Author : Mark Rapley
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1847876706
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Book Synopsis Quality of Life Research by : Mark Rapley

Download or read book Quality of Life Research written by Mark Rapley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-03-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Many books have been published on quality of life research in recent years, but few are as thought provoking or original as this one. It is essential reading for anyone who a serious and critical interest in this topic′ - Nurse Researcher `This was a fun book to read and I would suggest it be used for a graduate level seminar - where, of course, it would lead to a lively discussion′ - Quality of Life Research `Quality of life′ is one of the fastest growing areas of research and policy. The concept has an intuitive appeal as a measure of the well-being of individuals, communities and nations. It is increasingly promoted as an aid for political decisions and public funding. But what does the concept really mean? And how can it be operationalized in teaching and research? This is the first introductory text to offer a critical overview of the concept of quality of life and the ways in which it is researched. Using an inter-disciplinary approach, the book covers every aspect of the concept and its application - from the calculation of Quality-Adjusted Life Years to conversation analysis, and from the estimation of the quality of life of nation states to ethnographic studies of the life quality of individual disadvantaged people. The book fills a huge gap in teaching and research. Written with authority, and the need to produce an accessible critical introduction to the field, it will be of interest to students of sociology, psychology, public health and nursing, health economics, politics and medicine.

Production Dynamics for Life Quality in the Incipient 21st Century

Author : Chau-kiu Cheung
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981193827X
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Production Dynamics for Life Quality in the Incipient 21st Century written by Chau-kiu Cheung and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the life quality of the average adult in the world, based on international data weighted according to national population size. It rests on the theoretical framework of analytic-functionalism to explain statics and dynamics in the production of life quality. The statics means the influences of personal and national factors on life quality, whereas the dynamics mean the changes in the influences over time. This approach elucidates life quality at the personal level rather than at the national level, which overlooks what happens to the average person living in the world. The approach involves a broad view of the production of life quality, including experiences, practices, and appraisals of life. This production also involves personal background characteristics and the national indicators of modernization, globalization, and environmental issues. Knowledge about the production is helpful for policymakers, researchers, students, and other people to upgrade life quality. Such knowledge is valuable because it is up-to-date, generalizable, and sensible based on the analytic-functionalist theoretical framework and statistical estimation.

The Exploration of Happiness

Author : Antonella Delle Fave
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400757026
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Exploration of Happiness written by Antonella Delle Fave and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This specially selected collection of landmark work from the Journal of Happiness Studies maps the current contours, and the likely future direction, of research in a field with a fast-rising profile. This volume, which inaugurates a series aiming to explore discrete topics in happiness and wellbeing studies, features selected articles published in the Journal of Happiness Studies during its first decade, which culminated in an ‘impact factor’ in 2011. As the introductory work in the series, it provides readers with a vital overview of the prominent issues, problems and challenges that well-being and happiness research has had to overcome since its appearance on the scientific stage. The journal’s very success evinces both the high scientific quality of the research covered, and the steadily growing interest in a subject that draws responses from a vast range of epistemological aiming points, taking in economics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, education and medicine. The series of volumes following this debut publication will represent a unique contribution to the literature in their multidisciplinary focus on particularized topics. It is reckoned that this will help strengthen cross-disciplinary synergies among authors investigating the same topic, as well as whet the appetite for happiness research among professionals and experts inhabiting a variety of academic domains. This volume addresses the theory of well-being and happiness, the different research approaches now probing their features and components, and the socio-economic and cultural issues that impact on their promotion..

Quality of Life Therapy

Author : Michael B. Frisch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471727237
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Quality of Life Therapy written by Michael B. Frisch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note: Book no longer includes a CD-ROM, but the files are available online for download for both book and ebook purchasers at www.wiley.com/go/frisch "This book defines an approach to well-being and positive psychology, that is state-of-the-art, evidence-based, empirically validated, and an outstanding guide for anyone interested in learning about the practice of positive psychology or well-being." —Ed Diener, the world authority on happiness from the University of Illinois and President of the International Positive Psychology Association. Endorsed by Christopher Peterson of the University of Michigan and taught in Marty Seligman's Masters in Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) Program at the University of Pennsylvania, this book teaches a simple, step-by-step method for putting the fields of well-being and positive psychology into practice. It is a "one-stop shopping" manual with everything you need in one book and with one approach. This approach to greater happiness, meaning, and success is “evidence-based” and empirically validated. It has been successfully tested in three randomized controlled trials, including two NIH-grant funded trials conducted by James R. Rodrigue and his colleagues at Beth Israel and Harvard Medical Centers in Boston. Quality of Life Therapy also known as Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching or QOLTC is designed for use by therapists, coaches, organizational change-agents/consultants, and all professionals who work to improve peoples' well-being. Many laypersons and clients have found the book useful as well. This book explains the "Sweet 16" Recipe for Joy and Success, along with validated interventions for each: 1. Basic Needs or Wealths: Health, Money, Goals-and-Values/Spiritual Life, Self-Esteem 2. Relationships: Love, Friends, Relatives, and Children 3. Occupations-Avocations: Work and Retirement Pursuits, Play, Helping-Service, Learning, Creativity 4. Surroundings: Home, Neighborhood, Community

The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents

Author : Steven R. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317843479
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents written by Steven R. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights assessment techniques, issues, and procedures that appeal to practicing clinicians. Rather than a comprehensive Handbook of various tests and measures, The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents is a practitioner-friendly text that provides guidance for test selection, interpretation, and application. With topics ranging from personality assessment to behavioral assessment to the assessment of depression and thought disorder, the leaders in the field of child and adolescent measurement outline selection and interpretation of measures in a manner that is most relevant to clinicians and graduate students. Each chapter makes use of extensive case material in order to highlight issues of applicability.

Community Quality-of-Life Indicators

Author : M. Joseph Sirgy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402046251
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Community Quality-of-Life Indicators by : M. Joseph Sirgy

Download or read book Community Quality-of-Life Indicators written by M. Joseph Sirgy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second in a series covering best practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The first volume is a compilation of cases of best work in community indicators research. This volume builds on the goal of the series and includes eleven cases describing communities that have launched their own community indicators programs. Elements included are the history of the community indicators work within the target region, and the planning of community indicators.

Community Quality-of-Life Indicators

Author : Joseph Sirgy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402022012
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Community Quality-of-Life Indicators by : Joseph Sirgy

Download or read book Community Quality-of-Life Indicators written by Joseph Sirgy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-05-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of cases of best work in community indicators research. The cases describe communities that have launched their own community indicators programs. Elements that are included in the descriptions are the history of the community indicators work within the target region, the planning of community indicators, the actual indicators that were selected, the data collection process, the reporting of the results, and the use of the indicators to guide community development decisions and public policy. Community planners, community indicators researchers and urban planning specialists will find this book very helpful in learning from communities that have done community indicators work and have done it well.

Quality of Life

Author : Peter M. Fayers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118699459
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Quality of Life written by Peter M. Fayers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality of life studies form an essential part of the evaluation of any treatment. Written by two authors who are well respected within this field, Quality of Life: The Assessment, Analysis and Interpretation of Patient-reported Outcomes, Second Edition lays down guidelines on assessing, analysing and interpreting quality of life data. The new edition of this standard book has been completely revised, updated and expanded to reflect many methodological developments emerged since the publication of the first edition. Covers the design of instruments, the practical aspects of implementing assessment, the analyses of the data, and the interpretation of the results Presents all essential information on Quality of Life Research in one comprehensive volume Explains the use of qualitative and quantitative methods, including the application of basic statistical methods Includes copious practical examples Fills a need in a rapidly growing area of interest New edition accommodates significant methodological developments, and includes chapters on computer adaptive testing and item banking, choosing an instrument, systematic reviews and meta analysis This book is of interest for everyone involved in quality of life research, and it is applicable to medical and non-medical, statistical and non-statistical readers. It is of particular relevance for clinical and biomedical researchers within both the pharmaceutical industry and practitioners in the fields of cancer and other chronic diseases. Reviews of the First Edition – Winner of the first prize in the Basis of Medicine Category of the BMA Medical Book Competition 2001: “This book is highly recommended to clinicians who are actively involved in the planning, analysis and publication of QoL research.” CLINICAL ONCOLOGY “This book is highly recommended reading.” QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH

Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research

Author : Kenneth C. Land
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400724217
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research written by Kenneth C. Land and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research is to create an overview of the field of Quality of Life (QOL) studies in the early years of the 21st century that can be updated and improved upon as the field evolves and the century unfolds. Social indicators are statistical time series “...used to monitor the social system, helping to identify changes and to guide intervention to alter the course of social change”. Examples include unemployment rates, crime rates, estimates of life expectancy, health status indices, school enrollment rates, average achievement scores, election voting rates, and measures of subjective well-being such as satisfaction with life-as-a-whole and with specific domains or aspects of life. This book provides a review of the historical development of the field including the history of QOL in medicine and mental health as well as the research related to quality-of-work-life (QWL) programs. It discusses several of QOL main concepts: happiness, positive psychology, and subjective wellbeing. Relations between spirituality and religiousness and QOL are examined as are the effects of educational attainment on QOL and marketing, and the associations with economic growth. The book goes on to investigate methodological approaches and issues that should be considered in measuring and analysing quality of life from a quantitative perspective. The final chapters are dedicated to research on elements of QOL in a broad range of countries and populations.