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

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): Filomena Maggino

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Volume 97, issue 3, 2010

Increasing Inequality in Social Exclusion Occurrence: The Case of Sweden During 1979–2003 pp. 299-323

Miia Bask

How Accurate are German Work-time Data? A Comparison of Time-diary Reports and Stylized Estimates pp. 325-339

Steffen Otterbach and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Care for Sick Children as a Proxy for Gender Equality in the Family pp. 341-356

Rickard Eriksson and Magnus Nermo

An Evaluation of the Precision of Measurement of Ryff’s Psychological Well-Being Scales in a Population Sample pp. 357-373

Rosemary Abbott, George Ploubidis, Felicia Huppert, Diana Kuh and Tim Croudace

Socio-Demographic Vulnerability: The Condition of Italian Young People pp. 375-396

A. Busetta and A. Milito

Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old: An Analysis for Germany pp. 397-417

Wencke Gwozdz and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Re-Assessing Poverty Dynamics and State Protections in Britain and the US: The Role of Measurement Error pp. 419-438

Diana Worts, Amanda Sacker and Peggy McDonough

Measures of Disadvantage: is Car Ownership a Good Indicator? pp. 439-450

Victoria Johnson, Graham Currie and Janet Stanley

Residential Satisfaction and Civic Engagement: Understanding the Causes of Community Participation pp. 451-466

Michael Grillo, Miguel Teixeira and David Wilson

Cultural Consumption Patterns in South Africa: An Investigation of the Theory of Cultural Omnivores pp. 467-483

J. Snowball, M. Jamal and K. Willis

Erratum to: Socio-Demographic Vulnerability: The Condition of Italian Young People pp. 485-486

A. Busetta and A. Milito

Volume 97, issue 2, 2010

Multiple-Indicator Multilevel Growth Model: A Solution to Multiple Methodological Challenges in Longitudinal Studies pp. 123-142

Amery Wu, Yan Liu, Anne Gadermann and Bruno Zumbo

New Well-being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings pp. 143-156

Ed Diener, Derrick Wirtz, William Tov, Chu Kim-Prieto, Dong-won Choi, Shigehiro Oishi and Robert Biswas-Diener

Happy to Help? Exploring the Factors Associated with Variations in Rates of Volunteering Across Europe pp. 157-176

Anke Plagnol and Felicia Huppert

The Impact of State Abortion Policies on Teen Pregnancy Rates pp. 177-189

Marshall Medoff

Inequality in Human Development: An Empirical Assessment of 32 Countries pp. 191-211

Michael Grimm, Kenneth Harttgen, Stephan Klasen, Mark Misselhorn, Teresa Munzi and Timothy Smeeding

On the (In)Consistency of Citizen and Municipal Level Indicators of Social Capital and Local Government Performance pp. 213-228

Jarl Kampen

The Danish Effect: Beginning to Explain High Well-Being in Denmark pp. 229-246

Robert Biswas-Diener, Joar Vittersø and Ed Diener

Quality of Life in College Students with and without Social Phobia pp. 247-256

Gholam Ghaedi, Azadeh Tavoli, Maryam Bakhtiari, Mahdieh Melyani and Mahdi Sahragard

Simplifying the Water Poverty Index pp. 257-267

Danny Cho, Tomson Ogwang and Christopher Opio

Assessing the Assessors: Correlating Democracy Methodologies pp. 269-277

Edward McMahon and Emilie Kornheiser

The Impact of Having a Baby on the Level and Content of Women’s Well-Being pp. 279-295

Peter Hoffenaar, Frank Balen and Jo Hermanns

Erratum to: The Measurement of Multidimensional Gender Inequality: Continuing the Debate pp. 297-297

Iñaki Permanyer

Volume 97, issue 1, 2010

Introduction: The Dynamics of Happiness and the Dynamics of Happiness Research pp. 1-5

Hilke Brockmann and Jan Delhey

The Set Point Theory of Well-Being Has Serious Flaws: On the Eve of a Scientific Revolution? pp. 7-21

Bruce Headey

Why are Middle-Aged People so Depressed? Evidence from West Germany pp. 23-42

Hilke Brockmann

Agency, Values, and Well-Being: A Human Development Model pp. 43-63

Christian Welzel and Ronald Inglehart

From Materialist to Post-Materialist Happiness? National Affluence and Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Cross-National Perspective pp. 65-84

Jan Delhey

Economic, Social, and Cultural Determinants of Life Satisfaction: Are there Differences Between Asia and Europe? pp. 85-104

Wolfgang Jagodzinski

Life is Getting Better: Societal Evolution and Fit with Human Nature pp. 105-122

Ruut Veenhoven

Volume 96, issue 3, 2010

Measuring Social Well-Being in People with Chronic Illness pp. 381-401

Elizabeth Hahn, David Cella, Rita Bode and Rachel Hanrahan

Investigating Adolescent Health-Related Quality of Life: From a Self-Identity Perspective pp. 403-415

Kun-Hu Chen and Grace Yao

Ethnic Intermarriage and Social Cohesion. What Can We Learn from Yugoslavia? pp. 417-432

Jeroen Smits

Measuring Health: A Multivariate Approach pp. 433-457

Jeroen Klomp and Jakob Haan

Ways that Social Change Predicts Personal Quality of Life pp. 459-477

Chau-kiu Cheung and Kwok Leung

Citizenship Norms in Eastern Europe pp. 479-496

Hilde Coffé and Tanja Lippe

Your House, Your Car, Your Education: The Socioeconomic Situation of the Neighborhood and its Impact on Life Satisfaction in Germany pp. 497-513

Joerg Dittmann and Jan Goebel

Determinants of Life Satisfaction Among Immigrants from Western Countries and from the FSU in Israel pp. 515-534

Karin Amit

Differential Functioning of the Chinese Version of Beck Depression Inventory-II in Adolescent Gender Groups: Use of a Multiple-Group Mean and Covariance Structure Model pp. 535-550

Pei-Chen Wu

Direct Versus Indirect Questioning: An Application to the Well-Being of Farm Animals pp. 551-565

Jayson Lusk and Bailey Norwood

Volume 96, issue 2, 2010

Wants, Needs and Satisfaction: A Comparative Study in Thailand and Bangladesh pp. 183-203

Laura Camfield and Monica Guillen-Royo

Social Capital as Exchange: Its Contribution to Morale pp. 205-227

Chau-kiu Cheung and Raymond Chan

Investigating Validity Evidence of the Satisfaction with Life Scale Adapted for Children pp. 229-247

Anne Gadermann, Kimberly Schonert-Reichl and Bruno Zumbo

Non-Participant Fathers in Time-Use Studies: Uninvolved or Data Artifact? pp. 249-266

Shelley Pacholok and Anne Gauthier

Psychometric Evaluation of the Hebrew Language Version of the Satisfaction with Life Scale pp. 267-274

Dana Anaby, Tal Jarus and Bruno Zumbo

Knowing One’s Lot in Life Versus Climbing the Social Ladder: The Formation of Redistributive Preferences in Urban China pp. 275-293

Russell Smyth, Vinod Mishra and Xiaolei Qian

Developing a Measure of Community Well-Being Based on Perceptions of Impact in Various Life Domains pp. 295-311

M. Sirgy, Robin Widgery, Dong-Jin Lee and Grace Yu

The Social Patterning of Work-Related Insecurity and its Health Consequences pp. 313-337

Heather Scott-Marshall

Economic Disparities and Life Satisfaction in European Regions pp. 339-361

Maria Grazia Pittau, Roberto Zelli and Andrew Gelman

An Analysis of Student Satisfaction: Full-Time vs. Part-Time Students pp. 363-378

Ana Moro-Egido and Judith Panadés

Erratum to: Domestic Supply, Job-Specialization and Sex-differences in Pay pp. 379-379

Javier Polavieja

Volume 96, issue 1, 2010

Arts and the Perceived Quality of Life in British Columbia pp. 1-39

Alex Michalos and P. Kahlke

‘System Destroys Trust?’—Regulatory Institutions and Public Perceptions of Food Risks in Taiwan pp. 41-57

Kuei-tien Chou and Hwa-meei Liou

International Migration and Human Development in Destination Countries: A Cross-National Analysis of Less-Developed Countries, 1970–2005 pp. 59-83

Matthew Sanderson

“Even If She Learns, She Doesn’t Understand Properly”. Children’s Understandings of Illbeing and Poverty in Five Ethiopian Communities pp. 85-112

Laura Camfield

Measuring is Believing! Improving Conventional Indicators of Welfare State Development pp. 113-131

Jon Olaskoaga-Larrauri, Ricardo Aláez-Aller and Pablo Díaz- de-Basurto

Are Mathematics and Science Test Scores Good Indicators of Labor-Force Quality? pp. 133-143

Shiu-Sheng Chen and Ming-Ching Luoh

Political Distrust and Social Capital in Europe and the USA pp. 145-167

Peggy Schyns and Christel Koop

Weighting and Aggregation in Composite Indicator Construction: a Multiplicative Optimization Approach pp. 169-181

P. Zhou, B.W. Ang and D. Zhou