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Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Filomena Maggino

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

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  • First comprehensive and in depth resource on quality of life and well-being research
  • Covers quality of life research from social and behavioral perspectives
  • Includes around 500 new and updated entries

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This 2nd edition is the definite source on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life, including health-related quality of life research or also called patient-reported outcomes research. Altogether 500 new entries appear in this new edition. This single, multidimensional reference work connects the most salient and important contributions to the relevant fields from the behavioral and social sciences as well as health and healthcare. New topics in this 2nd edition are on disabilities, religion/spirituality, sex, sports, politics, government, science, literature, performance and visual arts, environmental quality and sustainable development. The 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-being Research is an indispensable reference point for future research and writing topics on quality of life.

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Table of contents (824 entries)

  1. Active Ageing and Personal Wellbeing Among Older Adults in Spain

    • Fermina Rojo-Perez, Gloria Fernandez-Mayoralas, Vicente Rodriguez-Rodriguez

  2. Active Coping

    • Thomas C. Tsai, Charles S. Carver, Youngmee Kim

  3. Activities of Daily Living (ADL)

    • Seoyong Kim

  4. Activities of Daily Vision Scale

    • Jill Carlton

  5. Addiction: An Overview

    • Loredana A. Marchica, Caroline E. Temcheff, Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Jeffrey L. Derevensky

  6. Adolescent Health-Risk and Problem Behavior

    • Robert F. Valois, Sandra K. Kammermann, Aubrie A. Valois

  7. Adolescents’ Life Satisfaction

    • Kimberly Hills, Michael Lyons, E. Scott Huebner

  8. Affective Component of Happiness

    • Ruut Veenhoven

  9. Affective Connection to Nature

    • Elisabeth Kals, Elizabeth K. Nisbet

  10. Affluence, Stress, and Well-Being

    • Weiting Ng, Wei Shyan Lim

  11. Alaska, Living Conditions of the Inupiat

    • Peter P. Schweitzer

  12. Algeria, Personal Well-Being Index

    • Habib Tiliouine

  13. Algerian Secondary School Students, Application of the Personal Well-Being Index (PWI)

    • Habib Tiliouine

  14. Altruism

    • Anne Birgitta Pessi, Emilia Saukko

  15. American National Election Studies

    • Matthew DeBell

  16. Anger

    • Georges Steffgen

  17. Animal Beauty, Cross-Cultural Perceptions

    • Daniel Frynta, Eva Landová, Silvie Rádlová

  18. Anthropology

    • Neil Thin

  19. Anxiety

    • Melanie L. O’Neill, Lindsey A. Snaychuk, Jennifer Sorochan

  20. Anxiety Disorders

    • Katherine A. Shebelski, Gordon J. G. Asmundson
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

    Filomena Maggino

About the editor

Filomena Maggino is professor of Social Statistics and Multivariate Statistical Analysis at the University of Florence (full-professorship). She has a wide experience in survey design and analysis, with focus on questionnaire construction and definition, and sampling design. Filomena is the coordinator of the International II level master “QoLexity. Measuring, Monitoring and Analysis of Quality of Life and its Complexity” (University of Florence). 


Research interests: (i) data production (in particular, subjective data assessment), (ii) data analysis (in particular, multivariate and dimensional analysis, scaling models and construction of composite and synthetic indicators), and (iii) data presentation and dissemination (with particular reference to defining a model aimed at assessing the quality of communication in statistics). Main field of application is quality-of-life and well-being measurement and analysis.


Responsibilities: 
Editor-in-Chief of Social Indicators Research journal (Springer).

President and co-founder of the Italian Association for Quality-of-Life Studies (AIQUAV).

Past-president of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS).

Component of the following committees:
Scientific Committee for the Measurement of Wellbeing – BES project (Commissione scientifica per la misura del benessere – progetto BES) established at Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT)
Expert Group on Quality of life, established at Eurostat – European Commission

Expert Group on “European Research Area” Survey, established at the DG for Research and Innovation – European Commission

Expert Group, reviewing the questionnaire for the European Quality of Life Survey, established at Eurofound

Global Project Research Network on Measuring the Progress, established at OECD.
Member of several international associations, many scientific journals’ editorial board, scientific committees and session organizer/chair at numerous international conferences.


Advisor of the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) with reference to quality-of-life and well-being measurement.


Frequently invited all over the world to give lectures about indicators construction and measuring well-being.

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