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

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): Filomena Maggino

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The economic measurement and determinants of diversity pp. 201-225: Dominique Haughton and Swati Mukerjee
“Consumer Confidence” Indexes as social indicators pp. 227-246: Krzysztof Zagórski and John McDonnell
Political legitimacy versus economic imperatives in system transformation: Hungary and East Germany 1990–93 pp. 247-273: Bruce Headey, Rudolph Andorka and Peter Krause
The wealth of nations revisited: Income and quality of life pp. 275-286: Ed Diener and Carol Diener
Quality of life, intelligence and mood pp. 287-299: Reidulf Watten, Jon Syversen and Trond Myhrer
Book review pp. 301-302: Conrad Rutkowski

A value based index for measuring national quality of life pp. 107-127: Ed Diener
Happiness has traitlike and statelike properties: A reply to Veenhoven pp. 129-144: M. Stones, Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Holly Tuuko and Albert Kozma
A multiattribute measure of human development pp. 145-176: Francesco Carlucci and Stefano Pisani
Suicide and rurality in Alabama communities pp. 177-190: Andrew Zekeri and Kenneth Wilkinson
Selections from SINET — The Social Indicators Network News pp. 191-199: Abbott Ferriss

Livability of the welfare-state pp. 1-48: Ruut Veenhoven and Piet Ouweneel
Measuring subjective well-being: Unfolding the Bradburn Affect Balance Scale pp. 49-74: Wijbrandt Schuur and Martine Kruijtbosch
Attitudes toward items of time budgets as predictors of time uses: The case of men-v-women pp. 75-89: Jean-Charles Chebat and Cataldo Zuccaro
Correct credit distribution: A model for sharing credit among coauthors pp. 91-98: I. Lukovits and P. Vinkler
Selection fromSINET — The Social Indicators Network News pp. 99-103: Abbott Ferriss

The quality of mass support for democratization pp. 239-253: Doh Shin
A life satisfaction scale for use with national adult samples from the USA, Canada and Mexico pp. 255-270: Lorne Tepperman and James Curtis
Friendship and subjective well-being in Spain: A cross-national comparison with the United States pp. 271-288: Felix Requena
Personality and quality of life pp. 289-302: Reidulf Watten, Olav Vassend, Jon-Lars Syversen and Trond Myhrer
The psychometric properties of the SSL12-I, a short scale for measuring social support in the elderly pp. 303-312: G. Kempen and L. Eijk
The application of cost-benefit dominance analysis to the assessment of farm animal quality of life pp. 313-329: A. Taylor, J. Hurnik and H. Lehman
Book reviews pp. 331-337: James Veney and Timothy Hoye
Selections from SINET — The Social Indicators Network News pp. 339-342: Abbott Ferriss

A consumption model for measuring poverty: An exploratory exercise pp. 129-153: Laily Paim
Social indicators of racial parity pp. 155-177: Frank McVeigh and Roland Dedekind
On the trail of the gold standard for subjective well-being pp. 179-200: Robert Cummins
Modeling urbanism: Economic, social and environmental stress in cities pp. 201-223: Kent Schwirian, Amy Nelson and Patricia Schwirian
Book reviews pp. 225-232: Roy Wehrle and Conrad Rutkowski
Selections fromSINET — The Social Indicators Network News pp. 233-237: Abbott Ferriss

Gender differences in relating life events and well-being in elderly individuals pp. 1-25: Sheryl French, William Gekoski and V. Knox
Olympic medals as an indicator of social welfare pp. 27-37: Frank Butter and Casper Tak
The relationship between self-concept and life satisfaction in children pp. 39-52: Tara Terry and E. Scott Huebner
Gender differences in poverty among single people in Denmark pp. 53-69: Kirsten Thomsen
Assessing quality of life in Singapore: An exploratory study pp. 71-91: Kau Keng and Wang Hooi
Predictors of satisfaction with life among second generation migrants pp. 93-116: Félix Neto
Book reviews pp. 117-125: Ed Diener and Tonia Bogener

World Database of Happiness pp. 299-313: Ruut Veenhoven
The Students' Life Satisfaction Scale: An assessment of psychometric properties with black and white elementary school students pp. 315-323: E. Huebner
Patterns of inter- and intra-regional inequality: A socio-economic approach pp. 325-338: Amita Majumder, Krishna Mazumdar and Snigdha Chakrabarti
Metropolitan social structure, labor markets, and fertility pp. 339-365: Jeffrey Burr
The impact of professional and personal satisfaction on perceptions of rural and urban: Some analytic evidence pp. 367-376: Nino Pagliccia, Lars Apland and Arminée Kazanjian
Francophone life satisfaction and civic culture: A meta-analysis of the Canadian case pp. 377-394: John Goyder and Timothy McCutcheon
A Human Development Index for the Dalit Child in India pp. 395-409: Bruce Corrie
Book reviews pp. 411-420: Roderic Beaujot, Kenneth Land and Riël Vermunt
Selections from SINET — The Social Indicators Network News pp. 421-424: Abbott Ferriss

Separating people's satisfaction with life and public perceptions of the quality of life in the environment pp. 181-211: Leo Jeffres and Jean Dobos
Lessons from the healthy cities movement for social indicator development pp. 213-235: Steve Waddell
A life satisfaction measure: Additional validational data for the Congruity Life Satisfaction measure pp. 237-259: M. Sirgy, Dennis Cole, Rustan Kosenko, H. Meadow, Don Rahtz, Muris Cicic, Guang Jin, Duygun Yarsuvat, David Blenkhorn and Natasha Nagpal
Classification of countries: A socio-economic approach pp. 261-273: Krishna Mazumdar
Subjective well-being and age pp. 275-282: James Horley and J. Lavery
Book reviews pp. 283-293: Roderic Beaujot, Conrad Rutkowski and Nathalie Ostroot
Selections fromSINET the Social Indicators Network News pp. 295-298: Abbott Ferriss

Comments on papers for the special issue onGlobal Report on Student Well-Being pp. 1-6: Alex Michalos
National differences in reported subjective well-being: Why do they occur? pp. 7-32: Ed Diener, Eunkook Suh, Heidi Smith and Liang Shao
The cross-national pattern of happiness: Test of predictions implied in three theories of happiness pp. 33-68: Ruut Veenhoven and Joop Ehrhardt
Tests of the causal directions of global — Life facet satisfaction relationships pp. 69-92: Charles Lance, Alison Mallard and Alex Michalos
Student well-being: Are they better off now? pp. 93-112: Sara Staats, Marjorie Armstrong-Stassen and Christie Partilo
Social indicators of well being: A comparitive study between students in Bahrain pp. 113-152: Nahid Osseiran-Waines
Multiple-discrepancies theory versus resource theory pp. 153-169: Wolfgang Schulz
Book reviews pp. 171-180: Ruut Veenhoven, Sara Staats, Frank Fujita and Antonia Abbey