ADVANCES IN QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH 2001

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1 ADVANCES IN QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH 2001

2 Social Indicators Research Series Volume 17 General Editor: ALEX C. MICHALOS University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada Editors: ED DIENER University of Illinois, Champaign, U.S.A. WOLFGANG GLATZER J. W. Goethe University, Franlifurt am Main, Germany TORBJORN MOUM University of Oslo, Norway JOACHIM VOGEL Central Bureau of Statistics, Stockholm, Sweden RUUT VEENHOVEN Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This new series aims to provide a public forum for single treatises and collections of papers on social indicators research that are too long to be published in our journal Social Indicators Research. Like the journal, the book series deals with statistical assessments of the quality of life from a broad perspective. It welcomes the research on a wide variety of substantive areas, including health, crime, housing, education, family life, leisure activities, transportation, mobility, economics, work, religion and environmental issues. These areas of research will focus on the impact of key issues such as health on the overall quality of life and vice versa. An international review board, consisting of Ruut Veenhoven, Joachim Vogel, Ed Diener, Torbjorn Mourn and Wolfgang Glatzer, will ensure the high quality of the series as a whole. The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

3 ADVANCES IN QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH 2001 Edited by BRUNO D. ZUMBO University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Reprinted from Social Indicators Research, Volume 60, Nos. 1-3 (December 2002) SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

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5 CONTENTS Editorial Bruno D. Zumbo 1 SECTION I. MONITORING, ASSESSING, AND MODELING QUALITY OF LIFE Wealth of Nations, Individual Income and Life Satisfaction in 42 Countries: A Multilevel Approach Peggy Schyns 5 A PAR Approach to Quality of Life: Modeling Health Through Participation Shereen T. Ismael 41 Quality of Life in Europe: Objective and Subjective Indicators Alessandra Petrucci, Silvana Schijini D'Andrea 55 Social Indicators and Living Conditions in the Netherlands Jeroen Boelhouwer 89 An Introduction to the Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale E. Scott Huebner, Rich Gilman 115 Self-Sustained Quality of Life Monitoring: The Philippine Social Weather Reports Mahar Mangahas, Linda Luz Guerrero 123 SECTION II. POLICY, FINANCE, MARKETING, AND BUSINESS Welfare to Well-Being Transition Bonnie Braun, Patricia D. Olson, Jean W. Bauer A Behavioral Model to Optimize Financial Quality of Life Esther M. Maddux Public Policy and Diffusion of Innovation Robert Owen, Alfred Ntoko, Ding Zhang, June Dong

6 SECTION Ill. DETERMINANTS AND CORRELATES OF WELL-BEING AND QUALITY OF LIFE Community Subjective Well-Being, Personality Traits and Quality of Life Therapy David M.S. Kimweli, William E. Stilwell 193 I Want to Pretend I'm Eleven Years Younger: Subjective Age and Seniors' Motives for Vacation Travel Megan Cleaver, Thomas E. Muller 227 Access to Health Care: Social Determinants of Preventive Cancer Screening Use in Northern British Columbia Joanne Bryant, Annette J. Browne, Sylvia Barton, Bruno D. Zumbo 243 Aspects of the Effect of Substance Use on Health, Wellness and Safety of Employees and Families in Northern Remote Work Sites Sylvia S. Barton 263 Does Material Well-Being Affect Non-Material Well-Being? Abbott L. Ferriss 275 Distribution of Household Income in America: Effects of Source of Income, Inflation, and Cost of Living Differentials Mohamed Abdel-Ghany, Stephen J. Thoma 281 Does Business Process Reengineering Diminish the Quality of Work Life? Forrest B. Green, Eric Hatch 299 Unequal Perceived Quality of Life Among Elderly Italians: Different Satisfaction Levels in Selected Spheres of Life Enrica Aureli, Barbara Baldazzi 309 Index 335

7 BRUNO D. ZUMBO EDITORIAL The knowledge base in the domains of quality of life, well-being. and subjective well-being is continuing to grow at a rapid rate. In light of this growth, and the interest it reflects on the part of scholars. practitioners, and policy makers internationally, the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) plays an importan1 role in promoting and encouraging research in the field of qualityof-life (QOL) studies, broadly construed to involve all of the social and health sciences. In December 1998 scholars from around the: world gathered in Williamsburg, Virginia, for the Second Annual ISQOLS organized Conference. The papers herein reflect much oi that exchange. This volume has much to offer the reader. The papers reflect a diversity of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. In an attempt to organize the diverse themes and yet reflect current thinking the papers are organized into three sections. Although I recognize that this organization is somewhat arbitrary, not to cluster the papers would leave them without a thread of interconnectedness. The first section contains papers issues surrounding the monitoring, assessing, and modeling of quality of life. The second section is loosely organized around matters of policy, finance, marketing, and business. And finally, the third section is devoted to some determinants and correlates of well- being and quality of life. Finally, it is with gratitude that I acknowledge the ~ard work of exceptional group of reviewers who handled at least one paper. Bryant J., Australia Duxbury L., Carleton University Fischer D., University of Saskatchewan Frankish J., Vancouver Tousignant M., Quebec Greenwood M., Prince George Kishor N., Vancouver Lee J., Boston * Lehrer R., Moncton Lindsay A., Arkansas Social Indicators Research 60: 1-2, 2002.

8 2 BURNO D. ZUMBO MacMorann R., Ottawa Mohindra K., India Nadeau,G., Moncton Raykov T., Australia Williams R., Florida McDowell I., Ottawa Mulvenon S., Arkansas Pope G., Edmonton Richardson C., Vancouver Dassa C., Quebec University of British Columbia Scaife Building, 2125 Main Hall Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methodology Vancouver, BC V6T 1 Z4 Canada