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.
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