A new research agenda for improvements in quality of life. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Filomena Maggino, editor.
• Editors: Maggino, Filomena
• Contents: 1) Well-being indicators on landscape and cultural heritage: the experience of BES project -- Luigi Costanzo -- Alessandra Ferrara -- 2) Determinants of student satisfaction with campus residence life at a South African university -- Ferdi Botha -- Jen Snowball -- Vivian de Klerk -- Sarah Radloff -- 3) Dimensions of quality of living: An ethnographic research in two neighbourhoods of social housing -- Livia Bruscaglioni -- Erika Cellini -- Barbara Saracino -- 4) Making the Extraordinary Ordinary: A Fresh Look on Individual Action with Communities -- Craig Talmage -- 5) Explaining the Ethnic Minority Disadvantage in Subjective Well-being: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries -- Thomas De Vroome -- Marc Hooghe -- 6) Self-evaluation Affects Subjective Well-being: The Effects of Socioeconomic Status and Personality on Quality of Life in Taiwan -- Hsiu-Jen Jennifer Yeh -- Hsieh Yeu-Sheng -- Rueyming Tsay -- 7) The Impact of Public Expenditures on Chinese Elders' Life Satisfaction -- Song Gao -- Xiangyi Meng -- Dayong Yang -- 8) Associated factors to leisure activities in Quality of Later Life -- Gloria Fernandez-Mayoralas -- Fermina Rojo-Perez -- Lardies-Bosque R. -- Maria Joao Forjaz -- Pablo Martinez-Martin -- 9) The Incidence of the Need for Personal Assistance and Care: Objective Living Conditions and Subjective Assessments -- Stefan Weick.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 230 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306; Social sciences; Quality of life -- Research; Quality of life -- Evaluation; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Quality of life -- Evaluation; Quality of life -- Research; Social Science -- Statistics; Social research & statistics; Quality of Life_xResearch; Statistics; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Social issues & processes; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319159041; 3319159046; 3319159038; 9783319159034
• Related ISBNs: 9783319159034
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 16, 2015).
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