A Life Devoted to Quality of Life

Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Florence (Italy). She has a wide experience in survey design and analysis, with focus on questionnaire construction and definition, and sampling design.

Maggino - Preface.- Quality of Life in different segments of population.- 1.Casas - Children, adolescents and quality of life: The perspective of social sciences along two decades.- 2.Land, Lamb and Fu - Measuring trends in child wellbeing and child suffering in the United States, 1975-2013.- 3.Shek - The Role of Positive Youth Development and Family Functioning in Chinese Adolescent Well-Being: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence.- Theoretical issues.- 4.Cummins - The theory of subjective wellbeing homeostasis: A contribution to understanding life quality.- 5.Easterlin - Do People Adapt to Poorer Health? Health and Health Satisfaction over the Life Cycle.- 6.Noll - Progress: Concept and Measurement.- 7.Rojas and Guardiola Wanden-Berghe - A Hierarchy of Needs: A Subjective Well-Being Study.- 8.Sirgy - Towards a Theory of Residential Well-Being: A Quality-of-Life Perspective.- 9.Veenhoven - What we know about happiness, that we did not know before.