Maggino A Life Devoted to Quality of Life

Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-20568-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 60, 323 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Social Indicators Research Series

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 contains contributions written by the most prestigious and renowned scholars in the field of social indicators research and quality of life studies. Taken together, the contributions from scholars around the world reflect Michalos’ stance that even though there may be differences in individual scientific positions, the language in the field of quality of life has no limits and boundaries.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maggino, Filomena

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Contents;8
3;Part I: Quality of Life in Different Segments of Population;10
3.1;Chapter 1: Children, Adolescents and Quality of Life: The Social Sciences Perspective Over Two Decades;11
3.1.1;Introduction;11
3.1.2; Indicators, Children’s Well-Being and Children’s Quality of Life;12
3.1.3; Conceptualising Children’s Subjective Well-Being;15
3.1.4; Data Provided by Children and the Increasing Interest in Children’s and Adolescents’ SWB Indicators;16
3.1.5; Assessing Children’s and Adolescents’ SWB;18
3.1.6; The Need for More Available International Data: The Children’s Worlds Research Project;21
3.1.7; Research Results: Many New Findings in Just a Few Years;24
3.1.8; Some Reflections on the Future of Indicators of Children’s and Adolescents’ SWB;25
3.1.9;References;26
3.2;Chapter 2: Measuring Trends in Child Well-Being and Child Suffering in the United States, 1975–2013;30
3.2.1;Introduction;30
3.2.2; Conceptualizing and Measuring Child Well-Being;31
3.2.2.1;A Phenomenological/Ethnographic Positive Well-Being Approach;31
3.2.2.2; A Quantitative Positive Psychology Approach;32
3.2.3; The Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI);33
3.2.3.1;The Objective Social Indicators Tradition;33
3.2.3.2; The Subjective Well-Being Indicators Tradition;34
3.2.3.3; Intersecting the Two Traditions and the Child and Youth Well-­Being Index;35
3.2.3.4; Methods of Index Construction;39
3.2.4; Long-, Medium-, and Short-Term Changes in the CWI and Its Seven Domain Indices, 1975–2013;40
3.2.5; Comparisons with a Child Suffering Index (CSI), 1975–2013;43
3.2.6; Conclusion;46
3.2.7;References;47
3.3;Chapter 3: The Role of Positive Youth Development and Family Functioning in Chinese Adolescent Well-Being: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence;49
3.3.1;Introduction;49
3.3.2; Positive Youth Development Programs;52
3.3.2.1;Positive Youth Development and Chinese Adolescents;53
3.3.2.2; Family Functioning as a Form of Family Well-Being;55
3.3.3; Impacts of Family Functioning on Adolescent Development;58
3.3.4; Conclusion;59
3.3.5;References;60
4;Part II: Theoretical Issues;65
4.1;Chapter 4: The Theory of Subjective Wellbeing Homeostasis: A Contribution to Understanding Life Quality;66
4.1.1;Introduction;66
4.1.2; The Character of SWB;67
4.1.2.1;SWB Is Positive;67
4.1.2.2; SWB Mainly Comprises Mood;67
4.1.2.3; SWB Is Normally Stable;69
4.1.3; The Cause of Chronic SWB Stability;70
4.1.3.1;Personality;70
4.1.3.2; Genetics;70
4.1.4; The Theory of SWB Homeostasis;71
4.1.5; Homeostatic Processes;73
4.1.5.1;Behavior;74
4.1.5.2; External Buffers;74
4.1.5.2.1;Money;74
4.1.5.2.2; Relationships;75
4.1.5.2.3; Achieving in Life;75
4.1.5.3; Automatic: Subconscious Buffers;75
4.1.5.3.1;Access to Positive Affect;75
4.1.5.3.2; Habituation;75
4.1.5.3.3; Adaptation;76
4.1.5.3.4; Domain Compensation;76
4.1.5.4; Automatic: Conscious: The Cognitive Buffers;76
4.1.6; Resilience;77
4.1.6.1;Principles for Strengthening Homeostatic Resilience;77
4.1.6.2; Dangers of Resilience That Is Too Strong;78
4.1.6.3; Dangers of Resilience That Is Too Weak;79
4.1.7; Homeostatic Theory: Critiques and Implications;79
4.1.7.1;Critiques;79
4.1.7.2; Implications for Researchers;79
4.1.7.2.1;Implications for Normative Samples;80
4.1.7.3; Implications for Health Researchers;80
4.1.7.4; Implications for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress;80
4.1.7.4.1;Implications for Intervention Studies;81
4.1.7.5; Implications for Social Policy;81
4.1.8;References;81
4.2;Chapter 5: Do People Adapt to Poorer Health? Health and Health Satisfaction over the Life Cycle;85
4.2.1;Introduction;85
4.2.2; Data and Methods;87
4.2.3; Results;88
4.2.4; Discussion;93
4.2.5; Appendix A;94
4.2.6;References;95
4.3;Chapter 6: Progress: Concept and Measurement;97
4.3.1;Introduction;97
4.3.2; Conceptual Issues;98
4.3.2.1;History;98
4.3.2.2; Notions of the Idea of Progress;99
4.3.2.3; Current Views and Discourses;100
4.3.3; Measurement and Monitoring of Progress;102
4.3.4;References;106
4.4;Chapter 7: A Hierarchy of Unsatisfied Needs: A Subjective Well-Being Study;109
4.4.1;Introduction;109
4.4.2; Human Needs and Their Hierarchy;111
4.4.2.1;On Human Needs;111
4.4.2.2; Normative Approaches in the Hierarchy of Needs;112
4.4.2.3; Well-Being and Human Needs;114
4.4.3; Database;115
4.4.3.1;The Survey and Information Gathered;115
4.4.4; Subjective Well-Being Estimation of a Hierarchy of Unsatisfied Needs;118
4.4.5; Explaining Relevant Needs;122
4.4.6; Final Considerations;124
4.4.7;References;125
4.5;Chapter 8: An Essay in Honors of Alex Michalos: Finding Community in Quality of Life;127
4.5.1;Defining Community;128
4.5.2; Community Well-Being;132
4.5.3; Is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts?;133
4.5.4;References;134
4.6;Chapter 9: Towards a New Concept of Residential Well-­Being Based on Bottom-Up Spillover and Need Hierarchy Theories;135
4.6.1;Introduction;135
4.6.2; Past Conceptualizations of Residential Well-Being;135
4.6.2.1;Objective Versus Subjective Conceptualizations of Residential Well-Being;136
4.6.2.2; Subjective Conceptualizations of Residential Well-Being: Housing, Neighborhood, Community, and Integrated Approaches;137
4.6.2.3; Integrated Approaches of Residential Well-Being;139
4.6.3; Towards a New Conceptualization of Residential Well-Being;140
4.6.3.1;Housing and Neighborhood/Community Amenities Affecting the Sense of Well-Being in Health and Safety;144
4.6.3.2; Housing and Neighborhood/Community Amenities Affecting the Sense of Well-Being in Financial Life;145
4.6.3.3; Housing and Neighborhood/Community Amenities Affecting the Sense of Well-Being in Family Life;145
4.6.3.4; Housing and Neighborhood/Community Amenities Affecting the Sense of Well-Being in Social Life;146
4.6.3.5; Housing and Neighborhood/Community Amenities Affecting the Sense of Well-Being in Work Life;147
4.6.3.6; Housing and Neighborhood/Community Amenities Affecting the Sense of Well-Being in Leisure, Arts, and Culture;148
4.6.3.7; Housing and Neighborhood/Community Amenities Affecting the Sense of Well-Being in Education and Personal Development;149
4.6.4; Summary and Conclusion;150
4.6.5;References;151
4.7;Chapter 10: What We Have Learnt About Happiness;155
4.7.1;Introduction;155
4.7.2; Qualm 1: Can Happiness Be Defined?;156
4.7.2.1;Four Qualities of Life;157
4.7.2.2; Four Kinds of Satisfaction;157
4.7.2.3; Components of Happiness;158
4.7.2.4; Hedonic Level of Affect;159
4.7.2.5; Contentment;159
4.7.3; Qualm 2: Can Happiness Be Measured?;159
4.7.3.1;Measures of Overall Happiness;160
4.7.3.2; Measures of Hedonic Level of Affect;161
4.7.3.3; Measures of Contentment;161
4.7.3.4; Validity Doubts;162
4.7.3.4.1;No Notion;162
4.7.3.4.2; Reflected Appraisal;162
4.7.3.4.3; Colored Answers;162
4.7.3.5; Reliability Doubts;163
4.7.3.5.1;Bias in Appraisal;163
4.7.3.5.2; Bias in Response;164
4.7.3.6; Comparability Across Nations;164
4.7.4; Qualm 3: Is Happiness Relative?;166
4.7.4.1;Theoretical Assumptions;166
4.7.4.2; Empirical Evidence;166
4.7.4.2.1;Theoretical Flaws;167
4.7.4.2.2; Difference with Life-Aspect Evaluations;167
4.7.5; Qualm 4: Is Happiness an Immutable Trait?;167
4.7.5.1;Personal Character Trait?;168
4.7.5.2; National Character Trait?;169
4.7.6; Qualm 5: Is Happines Too Idiosyncratic to Be Pursued Collectively?;170
4.7.6.1;Much Similarity in Societal Requirements for Happiness;170
4.7.6.2; Much Similarity in Required Living Conditions Within Nations;170
4.7.6.2.1;Freedom;171
4.7.6.2.2; Social Rank;171
4.7.6.2.3; Marriage;171
4.7.6.2.4; Personality;171
4.7.7;Qualm 6: Have We Become Any Happier?;172
4.7.8; Conclusion;172
4.7.9;References;173
5;Part III: Monitoring Through Indicators;175
5.1;Chapter 11: Global Change and Quality of Life Indicators;176
5.1.1;Introduction;176
5.1.2; Part I: Social Indicators and Social Reporting in Historical Perspective;177
5.1.3; Part II: Social Indicators and Social Reporting in Contemporary Perspective;179
5.1.3.1;Social Indicators;179
5.1.3.2; Social Reporting;185
5.1.3.3; Social Index Construction at the Local Level;186
5.1.3.3.1;Kenneth Land’s “Child and Youth Well-Being Index” (CWI);187
5.1.3.3.2; The “Kids Count” Initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation;187
5.1.3.4; Social Index Construction at the International Level;188
5.1.3.4.1;The Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI);190
5.1.3.4.2; Richard Estes’ Index of Social Progress (ISP; WISP);190
5.1.3.4.3;The United Nation’s Human Development Index (HDI);191
5.1.4; Discussion;193
5.1.5;References;194
5.2;Chapter 12: The Spread of Social Indicators- and Quality of Life-Research in Germany and Europe: An Overview in Honour of Alex Michalos;197
5.2.1;From the Beginning to Intergenerational Continuity;197
5.2.2; Approaches and Arrangements of Social Indicators Research;199
5.2.2.1;Early Social Reporting in Germany;199
5.2.2.2; Governmental Social Reporting;200
5.2.2.3; The “Sektion Soziale Indikatoren”;200
5.2.2.4; SPES and the Sonderforschungsbereich 3;201
5.2.2.5; The Datenreport and Official Statistics;202
5.2.2.6; Diversified Social Monitoring;203
5.2.3; European Activities in Social Reporting and Quality of Life-Research;204
5.2.4; Resumée;206
5.2.5;References;207
5.3;Chapter 13: Challenges, Needs and Risks in Defining Wellbeing Indicators;210
5.3.1;A Challenge: Complexity;210
5.3.1.1;Complex Definition;210
5.3.1.1.1;Towards a Comprehensive Definition;214
5.3.1.1.1.1;Quality of Life;215
5.3.1.1.1.1.1;Living Conditions;215
5.3.1.1.1.1.2;Subjective Wellbeing;216
5.3.1.1.1.2;Quality of Society;217
5.3.1.1.2; The Quality of Wellbeing;218
5.3.1.1.2.1;Fairness in the Distribution of Wellbeing (Equity);218
5.3.1.1.2.2;Sustainability of Wellbeing;219
5.3.1.1.3; Additional Definitions: Contextual Characteristics and Life Domains;220
5.3.1.1.3.1;The Socio-economic Structure;220
5.3.1.1.3.2;The Life Domains;220
5.3.1.2; Complexity in Selecting Indicators;221
5.3.1.2.1;Quality of Indicators;228
5.3.1.2.1.1;Prerequisites of Quality;229
5.3.2; A Need: Making Relative;229
5.3.2.1;Relative Concepts;229
5.3.2.2; Making Relative Through Analyses;230
5.3.3; A Risk: Reductionism;231
5.3.4; Final Remarks;232
5.3.5;References;233
6;Part IV: Territories and Quality of Life;235
6.1;Chapter 14: Quality of Life Research in Asia;236
6.1.1;AsiaBarometer Survey’s Profile “AsiaBarometer” in Wiley-­Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition (Inoguchi forthcoming);237
6.1.2; Analytical Thrusts into Trust, Democracy, Clash of Civilizations and Societal Types;238
6.1.2.1;Asia, Quality of Life (Inoguchi 2014a, b);238
6.1.2.2; Interpersonal Trust and Quality of Life: A Cross Sectional Study of Japan (Tokuda et al. 2008);239
6.1.2.2.1;Methods;240
6.1.2.2.1.1;Study Participants and Data Collection;240
6.1.2.2.2; Statistical Analysis;241
6.1.2.2.3; Results;241
6.1.2.2.4; Discussion;242
6.1.2.3; Social Capital in East Asia: Comparative Political Culture in Confucian Societies (Inoguchi et al. 2007);243
6.1.2.3.1;Data;245
6.1.2.3.2; Results and Discussion;245
6.1.2.4; Democracy and Quality of Life in Asian Societies (Sasaoka and Seki 2011);246
6.1.2.4.1;Democracy and Quality of Life in Asia;248
6.1.2.4.2;Measurement Issues;248
6.1.2.4.3;The Hypotheses;248
6.1.2.4.4;Methods;249
6.1.2.4.5;Variables;249
6.1.2.4.6;Findings and Discussion;249
6.1.2.5; Legitimacy and Effectiveness in Thailand, 2003–2007: Perceived Quality of Governance and Its Consequences on Political Beliefs (Mikami and Inoguchi 2008);250
6.1.2.5.1;Background: Contentious Interpretation of the Thaksin Era and the Coup in 2006;251
6.1.2.5.2;Hypotheses: Components of Public Perception and Their Internal Relationships;252
6.1.2.5.3;Results and Discussion;253
6.1.2.6; Is Globalization Undermining Civilizational Identities? A Test of Huntington’s Core State Assumptions among the Publics of Greater Asia and Pacific (Collet and Inoguchi 2012);255
6.1.2.6.1;Introduction;255
6.1.2.6.2;The Debate Continues;256
6.1.2.6.3;Hypotheses;257
6.1.2.6.4;Data and Findings;258
6.1.2.6.4.1;Dependent Variable;258
6.1.2.6.4.2;Independent Variables;259
6.1.2.6.4.3;Core State Affinities: Is There a Micro-level Basis for a Civilizational Framework?;259
6.1.2.6.4.4;Explaining Core State Influence;260
6.1.2.6.5;Discussion and Conclusion;261
6.1.2.7; Multiple Modes of Well-Being in Asia: Typologies of Asian Societies via Satisfaction About Life Domains (Inoguchi 2014a, b);262
6.1.2.7.1;Introduction;262
6.1.2.7.1.1;Well-Being;262
6.1.2.7.1.1.1;Method;263
6.1.2.7.1.1.2;Typology of Asian Societies Based on Life Priorities;264
6.1.3; Some Future Prospects;265
6.1.4;References;266
6.2;Chapter 15: South African Perceptions of the Good Life Twenty Years into Democracy;269
6.2.1;Introduction;269
6.2.2; Chapter Outline;271
6.2.3; Life Satisfaction Since the Birth of Democracy;271
6.2.3.1;The ‘Miracle’ of the ‘First Dance of Freedom’;271
6.2.3.2; Fast Forward to 2014;272
6.2.3.3; The Good News Story in 2014;273
6.2.3.4; The Other News in 2014;274
6.2.4; How’s Life Since 1994;276
6.2.4.1;Multiple Discrepancies as Drivers of Satisfaction;277
6.2.4.2; Source Materials;277
6.2.5; Reflecting on 20 Years of South African Quality of Life from a MDT Perspective;278
6.2.5.1;Relative Deprivation: SELF NOW Compared to What OTHERS Have;279
6.2.5.2; Perceptions of Progress: SELF NOW Compared to the BEST SELF One Has Had in the PAST;279
6.2.5.3; Perceptions of Personal Progress: SELF NOW Compared to What SELF EXPECTED TO HAVE BY NOW;280
6.2.5.4; Optimism: SELF NOW Compared to What One Expects to Have in FUTURE;281
6.2.5.5; South African Perceptions of Entitlements: SELF NOW Compared to What One DESERVES;282
6.2.5.6; Necessities in Life: SELF NOW Compared to One’s NEEDS;284
6.2.5.7; Aspirations: SELF NOW Compared to What One WANTS;285
6.2.6; Discussion and Conclusions;287
6.2.6.1;Satisfaction and Rising Expectations;287
6.2.6.2; South African Exceptionalism;288
6.2.6.3; South African Entitlements;289
6.2.6.4; Democratic Maturity;289
6.2.6.5; South African Voice in an Inclusive Democracy;290
6.2.6.6; Long-Term Optimism;291
6.2.7; Conclusion;291
6.2.8;References;292
6.3;Chapter 16: Happiness and Sociability in a Nonrecursive Model: The US and Taiwan Compared;294
6.3.1;Theoretical Argument;295
6.3.2; Reciprocal Relations in Cross-Sectional Settings;297
6.3.3; Nonrecursive Model for the US;298
6.3.3.1;Nonrecursive Model for Taiwan;302
6.3.4; Discussion and Conclusion;304
6.3.5; Appendix;309
6.3.6;References;309
7;Part V: Training Quality of Life;312
7.1;Chapter 17: The Challenge of Teaching Quality-of-Life Theory and Research Methodology at the University: A View from South America;313
7.1.1;Introduction;313
7.1.2; Social Work and QOL;313
7.1.3; Childhood, Youth and QOL;318
7.1.4; Research Methodology and Quality of Life: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods;319
7.1.4.1;Post-Doctoral Studies in QOL;320
7.1.5; Final Reflection;322
7.1.6;References;322

Über Autor(innen)

Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Florence (Italy). She has a wide experience in survey design and analysis, with focus on questionnaire construction and definition, and sampling design.