Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement

1974 - 2025

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Volume 112, issue 3, 2013

Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales pp. 497-527

Ed Diener, Ronald Inglehart and Louis Tay

Subjective Wellbeing: Telling Only Half the Story pp. 529-534

Richard Eckersley

Criminal Victimization and Crime Risk Perception: A Multilevel Longitudinal Study pp. 535-548

Silvia Russo, Michele Roccato and Alessio Vieno

Environment and Happiness: New Evidence for Spain pp. 549-567

Juncal Cuñado and Fernando Pérez de Gracia

Indicators and Implications of Zero Tolerance of Corruption: The Case of Hong Kong pp. 569-586

Ting Gong and Shiru Wang

A New Perspective on Job Lock pp. 587-610

Anna Huysse-Gaytandjieva, Wim Groot and Milena Pavlova

What are The Best and Worst Times in the Lives of South African Township Dwellers? A Content Analysis of the Self-Defined End-Anchors for Bernheim’s ACSA Scale of Subjective Well-Being pp. 611-640

V. Møller and P. Theuns

Social Exclusion and Its Causes in East Asian Societies: Evidences from SQSQ Survey Data pp. 641-660

Ka Lin, Yun Xu, Tianhai Huang and Jiahua Zhang

Parental Support for Basic Psychological Needs and Happiness: The Importance of Sense of Uniqueness pp. 661-678

Ömer Şimşek and Melikşah Demir

Academic Coping, Friendship Quality, and Student Engagement Associated with Student Quality of School Life: A Partial Least Square Analysis pp. 679-708

Lei Thien and Nordin Razak

Who Makes the Most? Measuring the “Urban Environmental Virtuosity” pp. 709-724

Oriana Romano and Salvatore Ercolano

Choices Which Change Life Satisfaction: Similar Results for Australia, Britain and Germany pp. 725-748

Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels and Gert Wagner

Democracy and Female Labor Force Participation: An Empirical Examination pp. 749-762

Ghazal Bayanpourtehrani and Kevin Sylwester

Volume 112, issue 2, 2013

A Multidimensional Approach: Poverty Measurement & Beyond pp. 239-257

Sabina Alkire and Maria Santos

Tracking Poverty Reduction in Bhutan: Income Deprivation Alongside Deprivation in Other Sources of Happiness pp. 259-290

Maria Santos

Income and Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty in Six Latin American Countries pp. 291-314

Diego Battiston, Guillermo Cruces, Luis Lopez-Calva, Maria Ana Lugo and Maria Santos

Multidimensional Poverty in China: Findings Based on the CHNS pp. 315-336

Jiantuo Yu

Multidimensional Measurement of Poverty Among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 337-362

Yele Batana

Monitoring Progress in Child Poverty Reduction: Methodological Insights and Illustration to the Case Study of Bangladesh pp. 363-390

Jose Roche

The Multidimensionality of Child Poverty: Evidence from Afghanistan pp. 391-416

Jean-Francois Trani, Mario Biggeri and Vincenzo Mauro

Selecting a Targeting Method to Identify BPL Households in India pp. 417-446

Sabina Alkire and Suman Seth

Multidimensional Targeting: Identifying Beneficiaries of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs pp. 447-475

Viviane Azevedo and Marcos Robles

Towards a Multidimensional Measure of Governance pp. 477-496

Shabana Mitra

Volume 112, issue 1, 2013

Balancing Work and Family: A Panel Analysis of the Impact of Part-Time Work on the Experience of Time Pressure pp. 1-17

Ilse Laurijssen and Ignace Glorieux

An Unbalance Adjustment Method for Development Indicators pp. 19-45

Enrico Casadio Tarabusi and Giulio Guarini

Public Policies that Help Foster Social Inclusion pp. 47-68

Chau-kiu Cheung

The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Life Satisfaction pp. 69-81

Mina Daraei and Artmiz Mohajery

The Pacific Identity and Wellbeing Scale (PIWBS): A Culturally-Appropriate Self-Report Measure for Pacific Peoples in New Zealand pp. 83-103

Sam Manuela and Chris Sibley

Social Relations and School Life Satisfaction in South Korea pp. 105-127

Doo Kim and Ji Kim

Mapping Patterns of Multiple Deprivation and Well-Being using Self-Organizing Maps: An Application to Swiss Household Panel Data pp. 129-149

Mario Lucchini and Jenny Assi

Self-Esteem as Mediator and Moderator of the Relationship Between Social Support and Subjective Well-Being Among Chinese University Students pp. 151-161

Feng Kong, Jingjing Zhao and Xuqun You

Housing Satisfaction Related to Health and Importance of Services in Urban Slums: Evidence from Dhaka, Bangladesh pp. 163-185

Arina Zanuzdana, Mobarak Khan and Alexander Kraemer

Using Indicators of Multiple Deprivation to Demonstrate the Spatial Legacy of Apartheid in South Africa pp. 187-201

Michael Noble and Gemma Wright

Evaluating Quality of Life in Urban Areas (Case Study: Noorabad City, Iran) pp. 203-220

Mohammad Rezvani, Hossain Mansourian and Mohammad Sattari

Linking Metatraits of the Big Five to Well-Being and Ill-Being: Do Basic Psychological Needs Matter? pp. 221-238

Ömer Şimşek and Selda Koydemir

Volume 111, issue 3, 2013

Perceptions of Fortune and Misfortune in Older South African Households: Social Assistance and the ‘Good Life’ pp. 633-664

Valerie Møller and Sarah Radloff

School Satisfaction Among Adolescents: Testing Different Indicators for its Measurement and its Relationship with Overall Life Satisfaction and Subjective Well-Being in Romania and Spain pp. 665-681

Ferran Casas, Sergiu Bălţătescu, Irma Bertran, Mònica González and Adrian Hatos

Towards International and Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration for the Measurements of Quality of Life pp. 683-708

Sachie Mizohata and Raynald Jadoul

Filled Radar Charts Should not be Used to Compare Social Indicators pp. 709-712

Roger Feldman

Informational Ambiguity and Survey Bias: Husbands’ and Wives’ Reports on Their Contribution to Their Families pp. 713-724

Hung-Lin Tao

The Paradox of Children and Life Satisfaction pp. 725-751

Leonardo Becchetti, Elena Giachin Ricca and Alessandra Pelloni

Social Cohesion and the Labour Market: Societal Regimes of Civic Attitudes and Labour Market Regimes pp. 753-773

Isabelle Dimeglio, Jan Janmaat and Philippe Mehaut

How Bullying Involvement is Associated with the Distribution of Parental Background and With Subjective Health Complaints Among Swedish Boys and Girls pp. 775-783

Heidi Carlerby, Eija Viitasara, Anders Knutsson and Katja Gillander Gådin

Sustaining Resilience Through Local Connectedness Among Sojourn Students pp. 785-800

Chau-kiu Cheung and Xiao Yue

Cross-National Indices with Gender-Differentiated Data: What Do They Measure? How Valid Are They? pp. 801-838

Angela Hawken and Gerardo Munck

Explaining Low Subjective Well-Being of Persons with Disabilities in Europe: The Impact of Disability, Personal Resources, Participation and Socio-Economic Status pp. 839-854

Cretien Campen and Marc Santvoort

The Effects of the Informal Sector on Income of the Poor in Russia pp. 855-866

Yuriy Timofeyev

Volume 111, issue 2, 2013

Leisure Time in Modern Societies: A New Source of Boredom and Stress? pp. 403-434

Max Haller, Markus Hadler and Gerd Kaup

Examining the Influence of the Wine Festival Experience on Tourists’ Quality of Life pp. 435-452

Stefan Kruger, Cindy Rootenberg and Suria Ellis

Relationship Between Socio-Economic Values and Wellbeing: An Overview Research in Asia pp. 453-472

Trung Nguyen, Kimoon Cheong, Pham Nghi and Won Kim

Another Approach to Measuring Human Development: The Composite Dynamic Human Development Index pp. 473-484

Javier Bilbao-Ubillos

Altruism Within the Family: A Comparison of Father and Mother Using Life Happiness and Life Satisfaction pp. 485-510

Qiyan Ong, Kong Ho and Kong Ho

A Preliminary Examination of Covitality as Integrated Well-Being in College Students pp. 511-526

Camille Jones, Sukkyung You and Michael Furlong

Social and Economic Wellbeing in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin: Building an Enlarged Human Development Indicator pp. 527-547

Ernest Reig-Martínez

Do Preferences for Job Attributes Provide Evidence of ‘Hierarchy of Needs’? pp. 549-560

Cem Başlevent and Hasan Kirmanoğlu

Innovativeness and Subjective Well-Being pp. 561-578

Martin Binder

Sociality in Diverse Societies: A Regional Analysis Across European Countries pp. 579-601

Ferry Koster

Social Factors Explaining Children’s Subjective Happiness and Depressive Symptoms pp. 603-615

Lotta Uusitalo-Malmivaara and Juhani Lehto

Loneliness and Life Satisfaction in Turkish Early Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Self Esteem and Social Support pp. 617-632

Şahin Kapıkıran

Volume 111, issue 1, 2013

An Assessment of Social Welfare in Spain: Territorial Analysis Using a Synthetic Welfare Indicator pp. 1-23

Pilar Zarzosa and Noelia Somarriba Arechavala

Images of a Loving God and Sense of Meaning in Life pp. 25-44

Samuel Stroope, Scott Draper and Andrew Whitehead

Political Regime and Human Capital: A Cross-Country Analysis pp. 45-73

Jeroen Klomp and Jakob Haan

The Interplay between Educational Achievement, Occupational Success, and Well-Being pp. 75-96

Robin Samuel, Manfred Bergman and Sandra Hupka-Brunner

Quality of Life Satisfaction among Workers and Non-Workers in Uruguay pp. 97-115

Nestor Gandelman and Giorgina Piani

Exploring Wider Well-Being in the EU-15 Countries: An Empirical Application of the Stiglitz Report pp. 117-140

G. Madonia, Maria Francesca Cracolici and M. Cuffaro

Subjective Well-Being Approach to the Valuation of International Development: Evidence for the Millennium Development Goals pp. 141-159

Edsel Beja

The Relevance of Objective and Subjective Social Position for Self-Rated Health: A Combined Approach for the Swedish Context pp. 161-173

Alexander Miething

The Diffusion of IT in the Historical Context of Innovations from Developed Countries pp. 175-184

Jeffrey James

A Multilevel Analysis of the Compositional and Contextual Association of Social Capital and Subjective Well-Being in Seoul, South Korea pp. 185-202

Sehee Han, Heaseung Kim and Hee-Sun Lee

The Contribution of Job and Partner Satisfaction to the Homeostatic Defense of Subjective Wellbeing pp. 203-217

Lufanna Lai and Robert Cummins

Food Self-Provisioning in Czechia: Beyond Coping Strategy of the Poor: A Response to Alber and Kohler’s ‘Informal Food Production in the Enlarged European Union’ (2008) pp. 219-234

Petr Jehlička, Tomáš Kostelecký and Joe Smith

Work Hours and Well Being: An Investigation of Moderator Effects pp. 235-253

Maria Pereira and Filipe Coelho

Happiness and Satisfaction with Work Commute pp. 255-263

Lars Olsson, Tommy Gärling, Dick Ettema, Margareta Friman and Satoshi Fujii

Zooming in on Life Events: Is Hedonic Adaptation Sensitive to the Temporal Distance from the Event? pp. 265-286

Ekaterina Uglanova and Ursula Staudinger

Is Personality Fixed? Personality Changes as Much as “Variable” Economic Factors and More Strongly Predicts Changes to Life Satisfaction pp. 287-305

Christopher Boyce, Alex Wood and Nattavudh Powdthavee

A Comparative Analysis of the Validity of US State- and County-Level Social Capital Measures and Their Associations with Population Health pp. 307-326

Chul-Joo Lee and Daniel Kim

Exploring the Myth of Unhappiness in Former Communist Countries: The Roles of the Sex Gap in Life Expectancy and the Marital Status Composition pp. 327-339

Junji Kageyama

Personality and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from South Korea pp. 341-359

Shang Ha and Seokho Kim

Self-Forgiveness and Mortality in Late Life pp. 361-373

Neal Krause and R. Hayward

Multilevel Determinants of Colleges/Universities Enrolment in Vietnam: Evidences from the 15% Sample Data of Population Census 2009 pp. 375-386

Lan Vu, Linh Le and Nazeem Muhajarine

Translating Oral Health-Related Quality of Life Measures: Are There Alternative Methodologies? pp. 387-401

Mario Brondani and Sarah He