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  • af R. Allan Freeze
    1.781,95 - 1.790,95 kr.

  • - The Collected Works of Ed Diener
     
    1.292,95 kr.

    Ed Diener is the leading research scientist studying happiness and well-being. This is the third of three volumes that collect all his major works. It analyzes the measures of well-being that are currently in use including several new and useful ones.

  • - Purpose, Method and Application
     
    1.658,95 kr.

    The volume includes a description of the development and testing of a short set of questions for Censuses, now used in approximately 29 countries and recommended in the U.N.'s Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses: The 2020 Round, which includes disability as a core topic to be collected in censuses.

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    1.603,95 kr.

    This volume addresses an urgent need across multiple disciplines to broaden our understanding and use of response processes evidence of test validity.

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    1.704,95 kr.

    This book presents new scientific knowledge on using developmental science to improving lives of children and youth across the globe. It highlights emerging pathways to sustainability as well as the interconnectedness and interdependence of developmental science and sustainable children and youth development globally. Presenting cross-cultural views and current perspectives on the role of developmental science in the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals for children and youth development, contributors from different disciplines from low-and-middle-income countries or scholars working in these countries capture ground realities of the situation of children and youth in these regions. This book addresses developmental issues related to inequity, gender, health, education, social protection, and needs of vulnerable populations of children and youth. Other areas of focus are improving mechanisms and monitoring frameworks of development and well-being indicators.

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    1.647,95 kr.

    World Suffering and Quality of Life

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    1.377,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Global Perspective
     
    1.306,95 kr.

    Yet we also know that people vary their idea of quality as a result of the context of fluctuations in their own health status, the presence or absence of pain or discomfort, and as a result of variations in social and economic contextual factors.

  • - An Ethical Marketing Perspective
    af M. Joseph Sirgy
    2.428,95 kr.

    This handbook provides students of quality-of-life (QOL) research with an understanding of how QOL research can be conducted from an ethical marketing perspective - a perspective based on positive social change.

  • - In Search of New Directions
     
    1.761,95 kr.

    As Japan comes to grips with a decade of economic malaise after its spectacular post-war growth record, how will Japanese society react? Written by Canadian academics, the articles in this volume will be of interest to academics and policy-makers studying or teaching about contemporary Japan.

  • - Best Cases II
     
    1.738,95 kr.

    This book is the second in a series covering best practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. Elements included are the history of the community indicators work within the target region, and the planning of community indicators.

  • - Advances in Quality-of-Life Studies, Theory and Research
     
    1.210,95 kr.

    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.

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    1.149,95 kr.

    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.

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    2.226,95 kr.

    Placing work team practices in historical context, this book presents theories and cases which describe autonomous work groups, self-managed work teams, cell teams, and other collaborative work structures.

  • - The Collected Works of Ed Diener
     
    1.197,95 kr.

    The rst dimension is whether the theory places the locus of happiness in external conditions such as income and status, as many sociological theories do, or within the attitudes and temperament of the individual, as many psychological theories do.

  • - The Collected Works of Ed Diener
     
    1.295,95 kr.

    The culture and well-being questions are of fundamental importance to understanding in the entire eld and to scienti c knowledge in the behavioral s- ences as a whole.

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    1.154,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Multi-disciplinary and Multi-national Perspective
     
    1.229,95 kr.

    Concerned with the universality of wellbeing indicators, this book provides contributions from international scholars in the field of quality of life and subjective well-being. It is of interest to those who want to develop their understanding of the universality, assessment, development and maintenance of subjective wellbeing.

  • af Asher Ben-Arieh, Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Arlene Bowers Andrews, mfl.
    1.222,95 kr.

    Today, any regular newspaper reader is likely to be exposed to reports on manifold forms of (physical, emotional, sexual) child abuse on the one hand, and abnormal behavior, misconduct or offences of children and minors on the other hand.

  • af Alex C. Michalos
    2.249,95 kr.

    Since initiating the journal Social Indicators Research in 1974, Alex C. The final paper, on multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), is the author's unique contribution to an empirically testable new foundation for theories of utility, satisfaction and happiness.

  • - A Comparative Study in Four European Countries
    af Jeanne Fagnani, Dino Giovannini, Lis Hojgaard, mfl.
    1.107,95 - 1.222,95 kr.

    At the risk of sounding frivolous, there is a good case to be made for the argument that women constitute the revolutionary force behind contemporary social and economic transformation.

  • - Comparative and Dynamic Perspectives
     
    2.222,95 kr.

    This is the first volume ever published to examine the objective and subjective qualities of Korean life from both comparative and dynamic perspectives. It presents non-Western policy alternatives to enhancing the quality of citizens' lives, distinguishing Korea as an Asian model of economic prosperity and political democracy.

  • - New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World-System
     
    1.333,95 kr.

    Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading `globalization.' Our collected new research pushes the argument one step further. As a world-system expands it incorporates new territories and new peoples.

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    2.257,95 kr.

    The majority of studies on the quality of life have been conducted in Western contexts and are based on Western participants. Also, there are fewer QOL studies based on children and adolescents, or studies that examine the relationship between QOL and economic disadvantage.

  • - Post-communist and war affected societies
    af V. Nikolic-Ristanovic
    1.222,95 kr.

    Explores the impact of transition from communism and war on everyday life of women and men, as well as the way how everyday life and gender related changes affect women's vulnerability to domestic violence and trafficking in women. This book also explores the impact of micro level changes on development of civil society.

  • - Advances in quality-of-life studies, theory and research
     
    1.744,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Theory and Practice in a Multi-Cultural Perspective
     
    2.222,95 kr.

    In the last decade, public attention has centered on children, a development driven by decreasing fertility in the most developed countries of the world and the postindustrial emphasis on human capital development.

  • - From Physical Welfare to Subjective Well-Being
     
    1.222,95 kr.

    For the past three decades, Confucian Asia has been known as a region of wonders. This volume, with quality of life in Confucian Asia as its main theme, is the first of its kind seeking to unravel the dynamics and sources of citizen well-being, and to analyze the problems of building nations of well-being in this region.

  • - The Most Cited Articles Edited and Introduced by Alex C. Michalos
     
    999,95 kr.

    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement was founded by Alex C. An introductory essay written by Michalos explains the historical and scientific importance of each article in the development of social indicators or quality-of-life research.

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