Citation Classics: The Idea and the Collection -- Social Indicators Research: A Case Study of the Development of a Journal -- Developing Measures of Perceived Life Quality: Results from Several National Surveys -- The Quality of Life in Large American Cities: Objective and Subjective Social Indicators -- Quality of Life -- Does Money Buy Satisfaction? -- On the Multivariate Structure of Wellbeing -- The Structure of Subjective Well-Being in Nine Western Societies -- Measures of Self-Reported Well-Being: Their Affective, Cognitive, and other Components -- Satisfaction and Happiness -- The Stability and Validity of Quality of Life Measures -- The Analysis and Measurement of Happiness as a Sense of Well-Being -- Multiple Discrepancies Theory (MDT) -- A Review of Research on the Happiness Measures: A Sixty Second Index of Happiness and Mental Health -- Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Theories of Subjective Well-Being -- Assessing Subjective Well-Being: Progress and Opportunities -- Is Happiness a Trait? -- On the Trail of the Gold Standard for Subjective Well-Being -- The Domains of Life Satisfaction: An Attempt to Order Chaos
Summary
"Social Indicators Research" has been the leading journal for scholarly research in the field of Quality-of-Life measurement. Published in celebration of this accomplishment, this volume features 19 articles, drawn from the 34 most frequently cited articles in the journal's history. It also includes an introductory essay written by Michalos
