Télécharger le livre :  A Life Devoted to Quality of Life

This Festschrift is published in honor of Alex C. Michalos, a great scholar and inspiration to many upcoming and famous academics and practitioners. The Festschrift celebrates his lifelong, outstanding scientific and cultural contribution to Quality of Life Research. It...
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Parution : 2015-10-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect

This volume examines the impact of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Africa’s development post-2015. It assesses the current state of the MDGs in Africa by outlining the successes, gaps and failures of the state goals, including lessons learned. A unique...
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Parution : 2015-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Local Welfare Policy Making in European Cities

This book focuses on how EU welfare policies are implemented at the local level in 11 European cities and how local policy making addresses women’s care responsibilities. The book studies the complex combination of and the relationships between local political...
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Parution : 2015-04-24
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Télécharger le livre :  A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of Life

This book presents a new research agenda for improvements in Quality of Life research. It includes topics such as: -Studying QoL in particular subpopulations and selected subgroups -Disentangling the difficult task of identifying determinants of QoL -Perfectionating the...
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Télécharger le livre :  World Suffering and Quality of Life

This is the first book tackling the topic of world suffering. It compiles in one place the ideas, perspectives, and findings of researchers from around the world who pioneered research-based understanding of human suffering. Some chapters use the paradigm of ‘quality of...
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Télécharger le livre :  Qualitative Studies in Quality of Life

This volume explores the use and relevance of qualitative methods for the study of quality of life. It analyzes the role of qualitative researcher and the role of the context and the culture in quality of life studies. It presents the use of qualitative methods in real...
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Parution : 2015-01-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Validity and Validation in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

This book combines an overview of validity theory, trends in validation practices and a review of standards and guidelines in several international jurisdictions with research synthesis of the validity evidence in different research areas. An overview of theory is both...
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Parution : 2014-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Lifespan and Quality of Life

This publication addresses the gender dimensions of people’s lived experience and emphasizes how gender relationships differentially impact on women’s and girls’ as well as men’s and boys’ subjective well-being across the lifespan. It therefore fills a significant gap...
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Parution : 2013-12-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Reframing Disability and Quality of Life

This volume brings together two parallel fields of interest. One is the understanding among psychologists and other social scientists of the limits to psychometric measurement, and the challenges in generating information about quality of life and wellbeing that enable...
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Parution : 2013-03-12
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Télécharger le livre :  A Positive Psychology Perspective on Quality of Life

The construct ‘‘quality of life (QoL)’’, since the 1980s, when it was introduced, is being used mainly in the context of health problems. Areas of one’s life that contribute to QoL are good physical and mental health, efficient cognitive functioning, social support,...
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Parution : 2012-11-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Family Well-Being

In the international literature there is a broad scope for comparative research on the welfare regime, family change and gender relations, but we have no book that comprehensively collects the main research that has been conducted from the perspective of family...
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Parution : 2012-07-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Psychology of Quality of Life

The second edition will be an update and further elaboration of the literature related to subjective well-being, happiness, and life satisfaction. It will have a new substantial section that focuses on reviewing much of the literature of subjective well-being within...
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Parution : 2012-06-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Quality of life in Italy

?The outcome of the first Italian National Conference on Quality of Life, this volume is full of cogent analysis of topics and issues related to well being and quality of life, including focused papers on specific population groupings and discrete themes. Held in...
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Parution : 2012-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Subjective Well-Being and Security

Security, or the perceived lack thereof, impacts on quality of life at many levels. An important consideration is how security should be best understood. Although definitions of how to understand human security have been proposed, it is not clear how security should be...
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Parution : 2012-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Experiencing Grandparenthood

Within the context of an ageing Asia, the growing numbers of grandparents and the important roles they play within the family propel the need for a book devoted to their experiences. This book, with its focus on the Asian perspective, is pertinent and timely as Asia has...
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Parution : 2011-10-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Investigating Quality of Urban Life

The study of quality of urban life involves both an objective approach to analysis using spatially aggregated secondary data and a subjective approach using unit record survey data whereby people provide subjective evaluations of  QOL domains. This book provides a...
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Parution : 2011-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Quality-of-Life Community Indicators for Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management

While community quality-of-life indicators are gaining much needed attention in both scholarly work and practice, their application in the areas of parks, recreation and tourism management are not as well known. The applicability of indicator systems for natural...
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Parution : 2010-11-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Enhancing the Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disabilities

This book contains a series of articles, written by international experts in the fields of intellectual disability and quality of life, that explore a broad range of issues that impact on the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities and their families....
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Parution : 2010-09-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Approaches to Improving the Quality of Life

After measuring the Quality of Life and identifying the deficiences in your community, what steps should you take to improve the Quality of Life? This volume reviews methods for improving the Quality of Life that are based upon improving each of the ten domains of the...
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Parution : 2010-07-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Community Quality-of-Life Indicators

This book is the second in a series covering best practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The first was published in 2004. The editors are M. Joseph Sirgy, Don Rahtz and Dong-Jin Lee. Volume 1 is a compilation of cases of best work in community...
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Parution : 2007-07-07
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