Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Monitoring and Analyzing Quality of Life – An Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Demographic and Health Development in the Long Run....Pages 15-43
Living Standards in a Modernizing World – A Long-Run Perspective on Material Wellbeing and Human Development....Pages 45-74
Wars and Violence Through the Centuries....Pages 75-97
The Worldwide Spread of Democracy....Pages 99-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Global Economic Accounting and Its Critics: Objective Approaches (1)....Pages 115-131
The Human Development Index: Objective Approaches (2)....Pages 133-157
The Index of Social Progress: Objective Approaches (3)....Pages 159-205
The Overall Satisfaction with Life: Subjective Approaches (1)....Pages 207-238
Multi-item Measurement of Subjective Wellbeing: Subjective Approaches (2)....Pages 239-268
The Affect Balance Scale: Subjective Approaches (3)....Pages 269-279
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Happiness and Economic Growth – The Evidence....Pages 283-299
Wellbeing and Sustainable Consumption....Pages 301-316
Poverty and People’s Wellbeing....Pages 317-350
Well-Being and the Labour Market from a Global View: It’s Not Just the Money....Pages 351-379
The Contribution of Unpaid Work to Global Wellbeing....Pages 381-411
Welfare Production and Quality of Life....Pages 413-431
Front Matter....Pages 433-433
Living Alone and Living Together – Their Significance for Wellbeing....Pages 435-444
Worldwide View of Child Wellbeing....Pages 445-468
Global Perspective on Quality in Later Life....Pages 469-490
Front Matter....Pages 433-433
Migration and Quality of Life in the Global Context....Pages 491-503
Front Matter....Pages 505-505
Quality of Life and Wellbeing in North Africa – Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia....Pages 507-530
Shadow of the Sun – The Distribution of Wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa....Pages 531-568
Wellbeing in Canada....Pages 569-572
Quality of Life in the United States....Pages 573-581
Argentina’s Economic Development and Life Satisfaction Revisited – 1984–2012....Pages 583-596
Multiple Modes of Wellbeing in Asia....Pages 597-607
The Distribution of Quality of Life in Australia....Pages 609-624
An Overview of Quality of Life in Europe....Pages 625-661
Wellbeing in Slovakia....Pages 663-684
From Dissonance to Well-Being and Adaption? Quality of Life in Switzerland Over the Past Decades....Pages 685-714
Living Conditions and Perceived Quality of Life Among Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic....Pages 715-743
Front Matter....Pages 745-745
Wellbeing and Quality of Life Reporting at the OECD....Pages 747-761
The World Health Organization – The Case for Measuring Wellbeing in Europe....Pages 763-769
Social Reporting of the European Union – Description of the Organization....Pages 771-785
Wellbeing for All – The Aim of Social Cohesion: Developing the Approach at the Council of Europe....Pages 787-799
Front Matter....Pages 801-801
Assessing the Subjective Wellbeing of Nations....Pages 803-822
Cultural Construal of Wellbeing – Theories and Empirical Evidence....Pages 823-837
Satisfaction and Happiness – The Bright Side of Quality of Life....Pages 839-853
Worries and Pain – The Dark Side of Quality of Life....Pages 855-868
Front Matter....Pages 801-801
Hopes and Fears – Future Views of Quality of Life....Pages 869-894