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Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research is relevant to quality-of-life researchers working in the areas of Social Medicine, Sustainable Development, Social Indicators Research and Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine.
This volume contains 14 chapters that represent a culmination of programmatic research in the science of quality of life (QOL). Each chapter offers interesting findings in different areas of QOL research and, together, the chapters reflect the very basic premise that QOL research is a broad interdisciplinary topic explored in a multidisciplinary manner. The research methods and conceptual models used by the different authors are exemplary and can induce QOL researchers to conduct future research in QOL in other cultures, geographic areas, and different socio-economic and demographic groups as well as in different QOL domains.
List of contents
1 A Model for Food Service Delivery and Quality of Life in Long-Term Care Facilities.- 2 Happiness of Women and Men in Later Life: Nature, Determinants, and Prospects.- 3 Consumer Income and Beliefs Affecting Happiness.- 4 Emotional Well-being among Older persons: A Comparative Analysis of the 70+ Population in Japan and the United States.- 5 Quality of Life and Positive Youth Development in Grahamstown East, South Africa.- 6 Socioeconomic Development and Quality of Life in Italy.- 7 Poverty and Inequality of Standard of Living and Quality of Life in Great Britain.- 8 Abuse and Neglect of Disabled and Non-disabled Children.- 9 Climate as a Component of Objective Quality of Life in Countries of the World.- 10 Toward the Development of a Measure of Retail Quality of Life for Color-Deficient Consumers.- 11 Quality of Life Assessment in Child and Adolescent Health Care: The Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS).- 12 Predictive Validity and Sensitivity to Change in Quality of Life Assessment and Life Satisfaction.- 13 Measuring Quality of Life of Apparel Workers in Mumbia, India.- 14 Different Scales for Different Survey Methods: Validation in Measuring the Quality of University Life.
About the author
M. J. Sirgy a social/consumer/organizational psychologist (Ph.D., U/Massachusetts, 1979), Professor of Marketing, and Virginia Real Estate Research Fellow at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He has published extensively in the areas of consumer behavior, marketing communications, business ethics, and quality of life. He presently serves as an editor of the Quality-of-Life/Marketing section of the Journal of Macromarketing and co-editor-in-chief of Applied Research in Quality of Life. He co-founded the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies in 1995 and is currently serving as its Executive Director. He was also the president of the Academy of Marketing Science (2002-03).In 1992, he received the Distinguished Fellow recognition from the Academy. In 1997, he received the Distinguished Fellow recognition from the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies. In a recent survey of scholarly productivity in business ethics, he was ranked as 82nd among 2,371 business ethics scholars world-wide. In 2003, the board of directors of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies elected him to receive the highest distinction of the society, namely the Distinguished Quality-of-Life Researcher Award.
Summary
Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research is relevant to quality-of-life researchers working in the areas of Social Medicine, Sustainable Development, Social Indicators Research and Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine.
This volume contains 14 chapters that represent a culmination of programmatic research in the science of quality of life (QOL). Each chapter offers interesting findings in different areas of QOL research and, together, the chapters reflect the very basic premise that QOL research is a broad interdisciplinary topic explored in a multidisciplinary manner. The research methods and conceptual models used by the different authors are exemplary and can induce QOL researchers to conduct future research in QOL in other cultures, geographic areas, and different socio-economic and demographic groups as well as in different QOL domains.
