A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of Life

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319360116
• ISBN13: 9783319360119
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"