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January 2000, Volume 49, Issue 1
- 25-36 Women and Poverty in Spain (1981--1991)
by A. Fernández-Morales & J. Haro-García - 37-49 Quantitative assessment of response shift in QOL research
by Dan Bar-On & Alon Lazar & Marianne Amir - 51-67 From Birth to Death: A Social Monitoring Framework from New Zealand
by Judith Davey - 69-82 Family 'Decline' and the Subjective Well-being of Adolescents
by María Sastre & Gaëlle Ferrière - 83-113 Social Sources of Failure in Education: The Case in East and Southeast Turkey
by Ismet Sahin & Yener Gülmez - 115-120 A. Bowling, Measuring Health: A Review of Quality of Life Measurement Scales; I. McDowell and C. Newell, Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires
by James Horley
November 1999, Volume 48, Issue 3
- 245-296 The European 'Welfare Mix': Institutional Configuration and Distributive Outcome in Sweden and the European Union. A Longitudinal and Comparative Perspective
by Joachim Vogel - 297-317 John O'Neill, Irish Bootmaker: A Biographical Approach to Quality of Life
by Thomas Jordan - 319-343 Religiosity and Life Satisfaction Across the Life Course
by James Peacock & Margaret Poloma
October 1999, Volume 48, Issue 2
- 125-157 Public Services and the Quality of Life
by Alex Michalos & Bruno Zumbo - 159-188 Quality-of-Life in Individualistic Society
by Ruut Veenhoven - 189-218 The Top-Down/Bottom-Up Controversy from a Constructionist Approach. A Method for Measuring Top-Down Effects Applied to a Sample of Older People
by Fabio Leonardi & Linana Spazzafumo & Fiorella Marcellini & Cristina Gagliardi - 219-245 Adjusting Life Expectancy to Account for Disability in a Population: A Comparison of Three Techniques
by R. Roberge & J-M. Berthelot & K. Cranswick
September 1999, Volume 48, Issue 1
- 1-38 Factors Affecting Birth Rates Among Black Women 20--24 Years of Age: A Trend Analysis (January 1972--March 1992)
by Philip Salisbury - 39-49 An Investigation of Measures of Modern and Old-Fashioned Sexism
by Melanie Morrison & Todd Morrison & Gregory Pope & Bruno Zumbo - 51-75 Measuring well-being in the Netherlands: The SCP index from 1974 to 1997
by Jeroen Boelhouwer & Ineke Stoop - 77-101 The ISEW -- not an Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare
by Eric Neumayer - 103-124 Density, Crowding, and Factors Intervening in Their Relationship: Evidence from a Hyper-dense Metropolis
by Ying-Keung Chan
July 1999, Volume 47, Issue 3
- 245-280 South Africa's ''Rainbow People'', National Pride and Happiness
by Valerie Møller & Helga Dickow & Mari Harris - 281-306 Subjective Well-Being, Discrimination and Cultural Conflict: Iranians Living in The Netherlands
by Maykel Werkuyten & Shervin Nekuee - 307-342 A General Theory for Perceptual Indicators of Family Life Quality
by Kathryn Rettig & Ronit Leichtentritt - 343-356 Unifying Livability and Comparison Theory: Cross-National Time-Series Analysis of Life-Satisfaction
by Michael Hagerty
June 1999, Volume 47, Issue 2
- 119-151 How Do Classes Make Use of Their Incomes?
by Erik Bihagen - 153-201 Effects of Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Preventing Violent Crime in Washington, D.C.: Results of the National Demonstration Project, June--July 1993
by John Hagelin & Maxwell Rainforth & Kenneth Cavanaugh & Charles Alexander & Susan Shatkin & John Davies & Anne Hughes & Emanuel Ross & David Orme-Johnson - 203-231 Lay Conceptions of Well-Being and Rules Used in Well-Being Judgments Among Young, Middle-Aged, and Elderly Adults
by María Sastre - 233-243 Health Benefits and Health Cost Savings Due to Pets: Preliminary Estimates from an Australian National Survey
by Bruce Headey
May 1999, Volume 47, Issue 1
- 1-60 Measuring the Well-Beings of the Developing Countries: Achievement and Improvement Indices
by Krishna Mazumdar - 61-71 What Can We Induce from the Introspective Reports of Subjects?: Part Two
by M. Shirabe - 73-97 Political Democracy and the Physical Quality of Life: The Cross-National Evidence
by R. Frey & Ali Al-Roumi - 99-118 Should a Second Demographic Transition Follow the First? Demographic Contrasts: Canada and South Korea
by Zenaida Ravaneral & Hwa Young & Fernando Rajulton & Byung-Yup Cho
March 1999, Volume 46, Issue 3
- 249-271 Testing Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: National Quality-of-Life Across Time
by Michael Hagerty - 273-299 Measures of Optimal Centrality: Indicators of City Effect and Urban Overloading
by Annalisa Cicerchia - 301-323 Influences and Consequences of Well-being Among Australian Young People: 1980–1995
by Gary Marks & Nicole Fleming - 325-340 Evidence of Human Resource Development in Papua New Guinea
by Anmat Gani - 341-368 Mindfulness and Subjective Well-being in the Sustainability Movement: A Further Elaboration of Multiple Discrepancies Theory
by Jeffrey Jacob & Merlin Brinkerhoff
February 1999, Volume 46, Issue 2
- 125-135 Ranking Income Distributions by Deprivation Orderings
by Satya Chakravarty & Diganta Mukherjee - 137-155 A Measure of Subjective Happiness: Preliminary Reliability and Construct Validation
by Sonja Lyubomirsky & Heidi Lepper - 157-179 An Assessment of the Measurement Properties of the Human Development Index
by I. Ivanova & F.J. Arcelus & G. Srinivasan - 181-189 Sleep Deficiency and Quality of Life of Shift Workers
by A. Khaleque - 191-204 Gender Differences in the Perception of Genetic Engineering Applied to Human Reproduction
by Carol Napolitano & Oladele Ogunseitan - 205-224 Environmental Quality in the U.S. States
by Frank Young - 225-247 Dimensions of Gender Occupational Differentiation in Segregation and Inequality: A Cross-National Analysis
by Moshe Semuonov & Frank Jones
January 1999, Volume 46, Issue 1
- 1-22 A Multimethod Investigation of the Multidimensionality of Children's Well-Being Reports: Discriminant Validity of Life Satisfaction and Self-Esteem
by E. Huebner & Rich Gilman & James Laughlin - 23-60 Social Indicators of Substance Abuse Prevention: A Need-Based Assessment
by John Ryan & A.I. Abdelrahman & John French & Gloria Rodriguez - 61-90 Subjective Well-Being and Social Production Functions
by Johan Ormel & Siegwart Lindenberg & Nardi Steverink & Lois Verbrugge - 91-120 3-Decade Trend in Human Development Index in India and Its Major States
by A. Indrayan & M.J. Wysocki & A. Chawla & R. Kumar & N. Singh
November 1998, Volume 45, Issue 1
- 1-3 Opening Remarks to the Special Issue on Validity Theory and the Methods Used in Validation: Perspectives from the Social and Behavioral Sciences
by Bruno Zumbo - 7-34 Science, measurement, and validity: Is completion of Samuel Messick's synthesis possible?
by Keith Markus - 35-44 Test Validity: A Matter of Consequence
by Samuel Messick - 45-54 The Interaction of Values and Validity Assessment: Does a Test's Level of Validity Depend on a Researcher's Values?
by Mark Reckase - 55-67 Recovering a Dialectical View of Rationality
by Pamela Moss - 69-72 Commentary on ‘Science, Measurement, and Validity: Is Completion of Samuel Messick's Synthesis Possible?’ by Keith A. Markus
by Donald Zimmerman - 73-82 Validity, facts, and values sans closure: Reply to Messick, Reckase, Moss, and Zimmerman
by Keith Markus - 83-117 The Construct of Content Validity
by Stephen Sireci - 119-149 Moving Beyond Statistical Validity in Economics
by Fiona MacPhail - 153-171 Adapting Tests for Use in Multiple Languages and Cultures
by Ronald Hambleton & Liane Patsula - 173-199 Validity and Reliability of Subjective Social Indicators: The effect of different measures of association
by Willem Saris & Theresia van Wijk & Annette Scherpenzeel - 201-232 Some New Regression Methods for Predictive and Construct Validation
by Stanley Rabinowitz & David Rule & Robert Pruzek - 233-251 How Should Classical Test Theory Have Defined Validity?
by Donald Zimmerman - 253-275 On Variable Importance in Linear Regression
by D. Thomas & Edward Hughes & Bruno Zumbo - 279-318 Mode of administration and interviewer effects in self-reported symptoms of anxiety and depression
by Torbjørn Moum - 319-342 Construct Validity of Unsupportive Attributional Style: The Impact of Life Outcome Controllability
by N.C. Higgins & Melanie Morrison - 343-370 Development and Evaluation of a Parent-Employee Interrole Conflict Scale
by Alison Mallard & Charles Lance - 371-390 Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Life Satisfaction Index
by Edward Helmes & Richard Goffin & Roland Chrisjohn - 391-422 Assessing Spirituality Through Personal Goals: Implications for Research on Religion and Subjective Well-Being
by Robert Emmons & Chi Cheung & Keivan Tehrani - 423-473 Dimensional Specificity in the Prediction of Subjective Well-Being: Personal Projects in Pursuit of the PhD
by Timothy Pychyl & Brian Little - 475-504 The Structure of Mental Health: Higher-Order Confirmatory Factor Analyses of Psychological Distress and Well-Being Measures
by Raymond Massé & Carole Poulin & Clément Dassa & Jean Lambert & Sylvie Bélair & Alex Battaglini
July 1998, Volume 44, Issue 3
- 267-290 Large Differences in Time Use for Three Data Collection Systems
by Nelly Kalfs & Willem Saris - 291-328 European Scientific Socio-Economic Reporting: State and Possibilities of Development
by Franz Rothenbacher - 329-365 The Personal and the Political: Israelis' Perception of Well-Being in Times of War and Peace
by Simha Landau & Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi & Shlomit Levy - 367-379 Use of Other-Reports to Validate Subjective Well-Being Measures
by Heidi Lepper - 383-386 Selections from Sinet – the Social Indicators Network News
by Abbott Ferriss
June 1998, Volume 44, Issue 2
- 155-194 Pairwise Comparisons of Social Development of Selected Countries: 1960–1994: An application of D 2 -statistics
by Krishna Mazumdar - 195-224 Happiness and Satisfaction: Measures of Affect and Cognition?
by Karen Crooker & Janet Near - 225-254 Optimally Scaled Quality-of-Life Indicators
by S.M. Shen & Y.L. Lai - 255-265 Natural Change in the Environment: A Challenge to the Pressure-State-Response Concept
by A. Berger & R. Hodge
May 1998, Volume 44, Issue 1
- 1-4 Introduction
by Silvana D'Andrea - 5-39 Italian Quality of Life
by Silvana D'Andrea - 41-69 A Hierarchical Ordinal Probit Model for the Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Italy
by Carla Rampichini & Silvana Schifini d'Andrea - 71-95 The Quality of Life in Some Local Metropolitan Labour Markets in Italy
by Barbara Baldazzi & Helen-Cristin Corrado & Angela Ferruzza - 97-118 Households and Territory. The Location of the Population of Rome in Relation to Housing Supply Characteristics
by Enrica Aureli & Barbara Baldazzi - 119-144 Time Use by Gender and Quality of Life
by Rina Camporese & Cristina Freguja & Linda Sabbadini - 145-153 Time Use Survey: The Italian Contribution to the European Programme. Methodological Note
by Gianlorenzo Bagatta
March 1998, Volume 43, Issue 3
- 211-225 Two State-Trait Discussions on Happiness. A Reply to Stones et al
by Ruut Veenhoven - 227-260 Materialism and Quality of Life
by M. Sirgy - 261-289 Factors Affecting Birth Rates among White Women 20–24 Years of Age: A Trend Analysis (January 1972–march 1992)
by Philips Salisbury - 291-306 Affective and Daily Event Predictors of Life Satisfaction in College Students
by June Pilcher - 307-334 The Second Approximation to an International Standard for Life Satisfaction
by Robert Cummins
February 1998, Volume 43, Issue 1
- 1-2 Introduction: Quality of Life in Countries Undergoing Rapid Social Change
by Wolfgang Glatzer - 3-26 Crossnational Differences in Happiness: Economic and Cultural Factors Explored
by Peggy Schyns - 27-68 Quality of Life in South Africa: Post-Apartheid Trends
by Valerie Møller - 69-96 East Asian Newly Industrializing Countries: Economic Growth and Quality of Life
by Kwong-Leung Tang - 97-119 Quality of Life in Transition Countries: Central East Europe with Special Reference to Croatia
by Igor Matutinović - 121-140 Changes in Living Standards and Depopulation in Latvia in the 1990s
by Pēteris Zvidriņš - 141-170 The Changing Quality of Life in a Post-Communist Country: The Case of Czech Republic
by Michal Illner - 171-196 Subjective Attendants of Unification and Transformation in Germany
by Wolfgang Glatzer & Mathias Bös - 197-209 Transformation and Anomie: Problems of Quality of Life in Bulgaria
by Nikolai Genov
November 1997, Volume 42, Issue 3
- 245-281 Basic Minimum Needs, Quality of Life and Selected Correlates: Explorations in Villages in Northern India
by Merlin Brinkerhoff & Kelly Fredell & James Frideres - 283-298 Children's Rights and Children's Quality of Life: Conceptual and Practical Issues
by Ferran Casas - 299-323 The Controllability of Negative Life Experiences Mediates Unrealistic Optimism
by N. Higgins & Michelle St AMAND & Gary Poole - 325-352 Improving the Quality of Live in Greater Soweto
by Ronald Mears - 353-366 Indicators of Democratization in Romania
by Ioan Marginean - 367-384 Life Style Or Survival Strategy?
by Věra Majerová - 385-388 Selections from Sinet – the Social Indicators Network News
by Abbott Ferriss - 389-390 Call for Papers Special Issues of Social Indicators Research on the Quality of Life in Korea
by Doh Shin
October 1997, Volume 42, Issue 2
- 1-1 Rudolf Andorka March 30, 1931–May 30, 1997
by Wolfgang Glatzer & Alex Michalos - 103-116 The Future Direction of Social Indicator Research
by Joachim Vogel - 117-149 Climate Change Facts, Strategies, Choices and Innovations
by Derek Paul - 151-169 Measuring Information Behavior: A Time Budget Survey in Japan
by Hirohisa Suzuki & Yoshiaki Hashimoto & Kenichi Ishii - 171-204 Values, Performance and Subjective Well-Being in the Sustainability Movement: An Elaboration of Multiple Discrepancies Theory
by Jeffrey Jacob & Merlin Brinkerhoff - 205-219 A Paradox in African American Quality of Life
by Virgil Adams III - 221-244 A History of Threat in Europe and Belgium (1920–1993)
by Robert Hogenraad & Thierry Grosbois
September 1997, Volume 42, Issue 1
- 1-19 Social Development Trends in Europe, 1970–1994: Development Prospects for the New Europe
by Richard Estes - 21-39 Measuring Quality of Life
by Theresa Beckie & Leslie Hayduk - 41-76 Social Services for Children At Risk: The Impact on the Quality of Life
by Elena Zamfir - 77-101 Human Well-Being in Chinese Cities
by R. Frey & Fengxiang Song
July 1997, Volume 41, Issue 1
- 1-14 South Africa's Emergent “Social Indicators Movement”
by Valerie Møller - 15-50 The Shape of South African Society and its Challenges
by Lawrence Schlemmer & Valerie Møller - 51-94 Poverty, Inequality and Deprivation in South Africa: An Analysis of the 1993 SALDRU Survey
by Stephan Klasen - 95-118 “a Difficult Life”: The Perceptions and Experience of Poverty in South Africa
by Julian May & Andy Norton - 119-136 Inequality in South Africa: Findings from the 1994 October Household Survey
by Ros Hirschowitz & Mark Orkin - 137-168 Surviving the Transition: Trends and Perceptions of Crime in South Africa
by Antoinette Louw - 169-182 Trauma and Mental Health in South Africa
by Ros Hirschowitz & Mark Orkin - 183-203 The Reconstruction and Development Programme: Success Or Failure?
by Clive Corder - 205-228 Personal Versus Collective Quality of Life And South Africans' Evaluations of Democratic Government
by Robert Mattes & Jennifer Christie - 229-250 Aspects of the Quality of Life in Black Townships in a South African City: Implications for Human Development
by Elwil Beukes & Anna Colff - 251-278 Playing Numbers Or Politics? Approaches to the Prioritisation of Development Needs in South Africa
by Peter Gill & Peter Hall - 279-304 Monitoring Optimism in South Africa
by Mari Harris
May 1997, Volume 40, Issue 3
- 259-284 Culture as a Moderator of Overall Life Satisfaction – Life Facet Satisfaction Relationships
by Alison Mallard & Charles Lance & Alex Michalos - 285-298 the Impact of Personality and Social Support on Mental Health for Female Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
by Live Fyrand & Lars Wichstrøm & Torbjørn Moum & Ann Glennås & Tore Kvien - 299-327 Volunteering for Human Service Provisions: Lessons from Italy and the U.S.A
by Ugo Ascoli & Ram Cnaan - 329-357 Predictors of Life Satisfaction among Urban Iranian Women: An Exploratory Analysis
by Mahnaz Kousha & Navid Mohseni - 359-373 Has Livability of Japan Gotten Better for 1956–1990?: a Dea Approach
by Akihiro Hashimoto & Migaku Kodama
January 1997, Volume 40, Issue 1
- 1-4 Guest Editor'S Introduction
by Ted Schrecker - 5-98 Toward A Conceptual Framework For Assessing Progress Toward Sustainability
by Tony Hodge - 99-123 Money Matters; A Reality Check, With Help From Virginia Woolf
by Ted Schrecker - 125-146 Toward A Sustainable Us Health Policy: Local Congruities And Global Incongruities
by Andrew Jameton & Jessica Pierce - 147-158 Measuring Human Wellness
by J.S. MIllar & C. Hull - 159-178 Determinants And Indicators Of Health And Well-Being: Tools For Educating Society
by Evelyn Vingilis & Jennifer Sarkella - 179-187 The Bank Of Canada As A Determinant Of Health
by Robert Mcmurtry & Adalsteinn Brown - 189-216 Measuring Quality Of Life: Economic, Social, And Subjective Indicators
by Ed Diener & Eunkook Suh - 217-220 Indicators Of Human Well Being: Fine-Tuning Vs. Taking Action?
by Sally Lerner - 221-258 Combining Social, Economic And Environmental Indicators To Measure Sustainable Human Well-Being
by Alex Michalos
January 1996, Volume 39, Issue 3
- 233-237 Introduction
by Franco Archibugi - 239-279 Program indicators: Their role and use in the integrated social or community programming
by Franco Archibugi - 281-305 Describing and measuring socioeconomic systems: Prerequisites to planning
by Karl Fox - 307-309 Is 0.7% development assistance enough?
by Jan Tinbergen - 311-320 What state, what markets, for what development?
by Ignacy Sachs - 321-358 Indicators for the measurement of the quality of urban life
by Annalisa Cicerchia
January 1996, Volume 39, Issue 2
- 121-166 Migration and the quality of life: A review essay
by Alex Michalos - 167-186 The behaviour towards malaria care—a multinomial logit approach
by W. Asenso-Okyere & Janet Dzator & Isaac Osel-akoto - 187-202 Measurement of socio-economic inequality using the Life-Quality Index
by M. Pandey & J. Nathwani - 203-228 Community action in Alabama's Black Belt Timber-Dependent communities
by Andrew Zekeri - 229-232 Selections from Sinet-the social indicators network news
by Abbott Ferriss
January 1996, Volume 39, Issue 1
- 1-58 Happy life-expectancy
by Ruut Veenhoven - 59-64 The purpose in life and academic behaviour of problem students in Bangladesh
by Tania Rahman & Abdul Khaleque - 65-88 Quality of life indicators and health: Current status and emerging conceptions
by Dennis Raphael & Rebecca Renwick & Ivan Brown & Irving Rootman - 89-108 The use of the CES-D for measuring symptoms of depression in three rural Russian villages
by Larry Dershem & Valeri Patsiorkovski & David O'Brien - 109-119 Quality of life for women
by Shirley Farlinger
January 1996, Volume 38, Issue 3
- 217-228 Differential components of urban in-and outmobility
by Jacob Weisberg & A. Eaglstein - 229-243 Social bonding and loneliness after network disruption: A longitudinal study of East German refugees
by Matthias Jerusalem & André Hahn & Ralf Schwarzer - 245-274 Level of development of a country: A possible new approach
by Krishna Mazumdar - 275-301 The extended satisfaction with life scale: Development and psychometric properties
by Vincent Alfonso & David Allison & Damon Rader & Bernard Gorman - 303-328 The domains of life satisfaction: An attempt to order chaos
by Robert Cummins - 329-331 Convergence or divergence? Comparing recent social trends in industrial societies
by Robert Boyd - 333-337 Selections from SINET — The Social Indicators Network News
by Abbott Ferriss
June 1996, Volume 38, Issue 2
- 109-128 The quality of life in historical perspective France: 1695–1990
by Nathalie Ostroot & Wayne Snyder - 129-137 The interrelationships of positive affect, negative affect, and life satisfaction in an adolescent sample
by E. Huebner & Tammy Dew - 139-160 Happiness and self-deception: An old question examined by a new measure of subjective well-being
by James Hagedorn - 161-180 Causal direction in a model of life satisfaction: The top-down/bottom-up controversy
by Anette Scherpenzeel & Willem Saris - 181-192 The World Health Organization's definition of health: Social versus spiritual health
by James Larson - 193-211 Religiosity, quality of life, and survival in cancer patients
by Gerd Ringdal - 213-216 Selections from Sinet—The social indicators network news
by Abbott Ferriss
May 1996, Volume 38, Issue 1
- 1-27 Happiness surveys: Some comparability issues and an exploratory survey based on just perceivable increments
by Yew-Kwang Ng - 29-52 Measuring the cognitive domain of the quality of life of university students
by Rodney Clifton & Emily Etcheverry & Shelley Hasinoff & Lance Roberts - 53-80 Using housing items to indicate socioeconomic status: Latin America
by Elizabeth Arias & Susan Vos - 81-102 The enjoyment of activities: Do couples affect each others' well-being?
by Oriel Sullivan - 103-107 Selections from Sinet — The social indicators network news
by Abbott Ferriss
March 1996, Volume 37, Issue 3
- 235-267 Commitment beyond self and adolescence: The issue of happiness
by Zipora Magen - 269-280 Achievement and improvement in living standards—An empirical analysis
by Amita Majumder & Satya Chakravarty - 281-301 Technology and life-quality
by David McPheat - 303-332 Intergenerational relations and time use in urban black South African households
by Valerie Møller - 333-360 The impact of women's status on infant mortality rate: A cross-national analysis
by Ulrike Boehmer & John Williamson - 361-365 Selections from Sinet —The social indicators network news
by Abbott Ferriss
February 1996, Volume 37, Issue 2
- 119-148 Social development trends in Asia, 1970–1994
by Richard Estes - 149-163 Working off the farm: Impacts on quality of life
by Melinda McCoy & Glen Filson - 165-187 Fieldwork and measurement considerations in surveys of the oldest old
by Olle Lundberg & Mats Thorslund - 189-206 Measuring the concept of marital quality as social indicators in urban China
by Xiaohe Xu - 207-218 Life Quality measures of smoking
by Niels Lind - 219-223 Selections from sinet—The social indicators network news
by Abbott Ferriss - 225-226 Book reviews
by Ed Diener & Robert Sipe & Conrad Rutkowski
January 1996, Volume 37, Issue 1
- 1-46 Developments in satisfaction-research
by Ruut Veenhoven - 47-73 A weighted index of quality of life for Irish children; 1841, 1851, and 1861
by Thomas Jordan - 75-91 Short happiness and affect research protocol (sharp)
by M. Stones & Albert Kozma & John Hirdes & Dolores Gold & Tannis Arbuckle & Pam Kolopack - 93-106 Infant mortality decline in Chile: A replication
by Frank Young & Felipe Garcia - 107-110 Book review
by Wayne Snyder
November 1995, Volume 36, Issue 3
- 201-225 The economic measurement and determinants of diversity
by Dominique Haughton & Swati Mukerjee - 227-246 “Consumer Confidence” Indexes as social indicators
by Krzysztof Zagórski & John McDonnell