Social Indicators Research

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Volume 86, issue 3, 2008

The Quality of the Urban Environment Around Public Housing Buildings in Montréal: An Objective Approach Based on GIS and Multivariate Statistical Analysis pp. 355-380

Philippe Apparicio, Anne-Marie Séguin and Daniel Naud

Measuring Housework Participation: The Gap between “Stylised” Questionnaire Estimates and Diary-based Estimates pp. 381-400

Man Kan

The Institutional vs. the Academic Definition of the Quality of Work Life. What is the Focus of the European Commission? pp. 401-415

Vicente Royuela, Jordi López-Tamayo and Jordi Suriñach

Investigating Regional Disparities of China’s Human Development with Cluster Analysis: A Historical Perspective pp. 417-432

Yongheng Yang and Angang Hu

The Non-Economic Quality of Life on a Sub-National Level in South Africa pp. 433-452

Stephanié Rossouw and Wim Naudé

Measuring Changes in Family Wellbeing in New Zealand 1981–2001 pp. 453-467

Gerard Cotterell, Mark Wheldon and Sue Milligan

Can We Weight Satisfaction Score with Importance Ranks Across Life Domains? pp. 469-480

Chia-Huei Wu

On Exact Statistical Properties of Multidimensional Indices Based on Principal Components, Factor Analysis, MIMIC and Structural Equation Models pp. 481-496

Jaya Krishnakumar and A. Nagar

Health-Related Quality of Life Among Abused Women One Year After Leaving a Violent Partner pp. 497-509

Kjersti Alsaker, Bente Moen and Kjell Kristoffersen

Psychometric Properties of the PsychoSomatic Problems Scale: A Rasch Analysis on Adolescent Data pp. 511-523

Curt Hagquist

An Empirical Analysis of the Interrelationship between Components of the Social Quality Theoretical Construct pp. 525-538

Menachem Monnickendam and Yitzhak Berman

Volume 86, issue 2, 2008

Statistics and Politics in a “Knowledge Society” pp. 177-200

Enrico Giovannini

Dimensionality of the Chinese Dyadic Adjustment Scale Based on Confirmatory Factor Analyses pp. 201-212

Daniel Shek and C. Cheung

Life Goals Matter to Happiness: A Revision of Set-Point Theory pp. 213-231

Bruce Headey

Individual and institutional determinants of multidimensional poverty: A European comparison pp. 233-256

Caroline Dewilde

The relevance of social interactions on housing satisfaction pp. 257-274

Esperanza Vera-Toscano and Victoria Ateca-Amestoy

Measuring Diversity in Daily Social Contact: The Contribution of Social Context, Work and Leisure on the Opportunity for Engagement pp. 275-295

Glenn Stalker

Morningness–Eveningness and Satisfaction with Life pp. 297-302

Christoph Randler

Projecting Long-Term Care Expenditure in Four European Union Member States: The Influence of Demographic Scenarios pp. 303-321

Joan Costa-Font, Raphael Wittenberg, Concepció Patxot, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Cristiano Gori, Alessandra di Maio, Linda Pickard, Alessandro Pozzi and Heinz Rothgang

Socio-demographic Differences in Self-reported Psychological Distress Among 25- to 64-Year-Old Finns pp. 323-335

Kirsi Talala, Taina Huurre, Hillevi Aro, Tuija Martelin and Ritva Prättälä

Do Generous Welfare States Generate Efficiency Gains which Counterbalance Short Run Losses? Testing Downside Risk Theory with Economic Panel Data for the U.S., Germany and The Netherlands pp. 337-354

Bruce Headey and Ruud Muffels

Volume 86, issue 1, 2008

Measurement of social development: an international comparison pp. 1-46

Amal Ray

A note on the score reliability for the Satisfaction With Life Scale: an RG study pp. 47-57

Matt Vassar

Life satisfaction and family structure among adolescents in Hong Kong pp. 59-67

Ying-Keung Kwan

Association of educational level and child sex ratio in rural and urban India pp. 69-81

Lisa Inchani and Dejian Lai

Dimensionality of thoughts of death and suicide: evidence from a study of homeless adolescents pp. 83-100

Kevin Yoder, Les Whitbeck and Dan Hoyt

Examining the appropriateness of importance weighting on satisfaction score from range-of-affect hypothesis: hierarchical linear modeling for within-subject data pp. 101-111

Chia-huei Wu

Personality traits and gender-specific income expectations in Dutch higher education pp. 113-128

Ariana Need and Uulkje Jong

Reconciling the needs and wants of respondents in two rural Ethiopian communities pp. 129-147

Tom Lavers

Is poverty multidimensional? A comparison of income and asset based measures in five Southern African countries pp. 149-162

Robyn von Maltzahn and Kevin Durrheim

The relationship between leisure and life satisfaction: application of activity and need theory pp. 163-175

Ariel Rodríguez, Pavlína Látková and Ya-Yen Sun

Volume 85, issue 3, 2008

NIVAH: a composite index measuring violence and harm in the U.S pp. 351-387

James Brumbaugh-Smith, Heidi Gross, Neil Wollman and Bradley Yoder

The Set-Point Theory of Well-Being: Negative Results and Consequent Revisions pp. 389-403

Bruce Headey

Measurement and socio-demographic variation of social capital in a large population-based survey pp. 405-423

Tarja Nieminen, Tuija Martelin, Seppo Koskinen, Jussi Simpura, Erkki Alanen, Tommi Härkänen and Arpo Aromaa

Environmentally Responsible Happy Nation Index: Towards an Internationally Acceptable National Success Indicator pp. 425-446

Yew-Kwang Ng

Life satisfaction in persons with schizophrenia living in the community pp. 447-460

Chia-Huei Wu and Chin-Yu Wu

The kindness of strangers revisited: a comparison of 24 US cities pp. 461-481

Robert Levine, Stephen Reysen and Ellen Ganz

Examining the content validity of the WHOQOL-BREF from respondents’ perspective by quantitative methods pp. 483-498

Grace Yao, Chia-huei Wu and Cheng-ta Yang

“The shock of widowhood”? Evidence from an Italian population (Parma, 1989–2000) pp. 499-513

Paola Pizzetti and Matteo Manfredini

Cross-cultural measurement equivalence of generalized trust. Evidence from the European Social Survey (2002 and 2004) pp. 515-532

Tim Reeskens and Marc Hooghe

Volume 85, issue 2, 2008

Economic disadvantage, perceived family life quality, and emotional well-being in Chinese adolescents: A longitudinal study pp. 169-189

Daniel Shek

The influence of financial, human and social capital on Japanese men’s and women’s health in single- and two-parent family structures pp. 191-209

Cherylynn Bassani

Safe drinking water and satisfaction with environmental quality of life in some oil and gas industry impacted cities of Nigeria pp. 211-222

E. Ejechi and B. Ejechi

Retrospective and prospective evaluations of environmental quality under urban renewal as determinants of residents’ subjective quality of life pp. 223-241

Chau-kiu Cheung and Kwan-kwok Leung

Critical factors for improving social sustainability of urban renewal projects pp. 243-256

Edwin Chan and Grace Lee

Using fractionalization indexes: deriving methodological principles for growth studies from time series evidence pp. 257-278

Johannes Wolfgang Fedderke, John Manuel Luiz and Raphael Kadt

The influence of student characteristics and interpersonal teacher behaviour in the classroom on student’s wellbeing pp. 279-291

Karen Van Petegem, Antonia Aelterman, Hilde Van Keer and Yves Rosseel

Are Father’s or Mother’s Socioeconomic Characteristics More Important Influences on Student Performance? Recent International Evidence pp. 293-309

Gary Marks

Is the intergenerational transmission of high cultural activities biased by the retrospective measurement of parental high cultural activities? pp. 311-327

Jannes Vries and Paul Graaf

Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being: Comparing Societies with Respect to Gender Equality pp. 329-349

Clemens Tesch-Römer, Andreas Motel-Klingebiel and Martin Tomasik

Volume 85, issue 1, 2008

Quality of life research: New challenges and new opportunities pp. 1-4

Peter Kitchen and Nazeem Muhajarine

Changes in quality of life perceptions in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: comparing survey results from 2001 and 2004 pp. 5-21

Allison Williams, Peter Kitchen, James Randall and Nazeem Muhajarine

Mobility, Perceptions of Quality of Life and Neighbourhood Stability in Saskatoon pp. 23-37

James Randall, Peter Kitchen and Allison Williams

Social Indicators in Surveys of Urban Aboriginal Residents in Saskatoon pp. 39-52

Alan Anderson and Cara Spence

Person, Perception, and Place: What Matters to Health and Quality of Life pp. 53-80

Nazeem Muhajarine, Ronald Labonte, Allison Williams and James Randall

Respiratory illness in Saskatoon infants: The impact of housing and neighbourhood characteristics pp. 81-95

Judith Wright and Nazeem Muhajarine

Volunteerism and residential longevity in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada pp. 97-110

Allison Williams, Nazeem Muhajarine, James Randall, Ronald Labonte and Peter Kitchen

Knowledge translation strategies in a community–university partnership: examining local Quality of Life (QoL) pp. 111-125

Allison Williams, Bill Holden, Peter Krebs, Nazeem Muhajarine, Kate Waygood, James Randall and Cara Spence

A Comprehensive Action Plan Information System: A Tool for Tracking and Mapping Quality of Life Action Implementation and Planning pp. 127-144

Peter Krebs, Bill Holden, Allison Williams, Maria Basualdo and Cara Spence

A Mixed Method Approach to Quality of Life Research: A Case Study Approach pp. 145-158

Heather Dunning, Allison Williams, Sylvia Abonyi and Valorie Crooks

The City of Saskatoon’s Local Area Planning Program: A Case Study pp. 159-167

Livia Kellett, Lyla Peter and Kelley Moore