Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research
Springer International Publishing
978-3-031-17298-4 (ISBN)
This 2nd edition is a definitive resource on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life, including health-related quality of life research or also called patient-reported outcomes research. Altogether 500 new and updated entries appear in this new edition. This single, multidimensional reference work connects the most salient and important contributions to the relevant fields from the behavioral and social sciences as well as health and healthcare. New topics in this 2nd edition are on disabilities, religion/spirituality, sex, sports, politics, government, science, literature, performance and visual arts, environmental quality and sustainable development. The 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-being Research is an indispensable reference point for future research and writing topics on quality of life.
lt;b>Filomena Maggino is professor of Social Statistics and Multivariate Statistical Analysis at the University of Florence (full-professorship). She has a wide experience in survey design and analysis, with focus on questionnaire construction and definition, and sampling design. Filomena is the coordinator of the International II level master "QoLexity. Measuring, Monitoring and Analysis of Quality of Life and its Complexity" (University of Florence).
Research interests: (i) data production (in particular, subjective data assessment), (ii) data analysis (in particular, multivariate and dimensional analysis, scaling models and construction of composite and synthetic indicators), and (iii) data presentation and dissemination (with particular reference to defining a model aimed at assessing the quality of communication in statistics). Main field of application is quality-of-life and well-being measurement and analysis.
Responsibilities:
Editor-in-Chief of Social Indicators Research journal (Springer).
President and co-founder of the Italian Association for Quality-of-Life Studies (AIQUAV).
Past-president of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS).
Component of the following committees:Scientific Committee for the Measurement of Wellbeing - BES project (Commissione scientifica per la misura del benessere - progetto BES) established at Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT)
Expert Group on Quality of life, established at Eurostat - European Commission
Expert Group on "European Research Area" Survey, established at the DG for Research and Innovation - European Commission
Expert Group, reviewing the questionnaire for the European Quality of Life Survey, established at Eurofound
Global Project Research Network on Measuring the Progress, established at OECD.
Member of several international associations, many scientific journals' editorial board, scientific committees and session organizer/chair at numerous international conferences.
Advisor of the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) with reference to quality-of-life and well-being measurement.
Frequently invited all over the world to give lectures about indicators construction and measuring well-being.
"Community Accounts": Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.- Aboriginal Community Well-Being Index.- Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Canada (APS).- Accessibility.- Acquiescence Response Set.- Action Research.- Active Ageing and Personal Wellbeing Among Older Adults in Spain.- Active Citizenship.- Active Coping.- Activities of Daily Living (ADL).- Activities of Daily Vision Scale.- Activity Assessment.- Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Adaptation-Level Theory.- Addiction Severity Index.- Addiction: An Overview.- Adolescent Health-Risk and Problem Behavior.- Adolescent Life Satisfaction Measurement.- Adolescent Substance Use.- Adolescents and Spirituality.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.1.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | CLXVI, 7923 p. 739 illus., 451 illus. in color. In 11 volumes, not available separately. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 23814 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Humanistische Psychotherapien |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| Schlagworte | Happiness • Health Related Quality of Life • Improving Quality of Life • ISOQOL • ISQOLS • Objective Well-being • Patient-Reported Outcomes Research • positive psychology • Psychology • Qualities of Human Existence • Quality of Life Research • social indicators • Sociology and Well-Being • Spirituality • Subjective Well-Being • Wealth • welfare |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-17298-1 / 3031172981 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-17298-4 / 9783031172984 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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