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The second edition will be an update and further elaboration of the literature related to subjective well-being, happiness, and life satisfaction. It will have a new substantial section that focuses on reviewing much of the literature of subjective well-being within specific life domains (social life, material life, leisure life, work life, community life, spiritual life, family life, health life, sex life, travel life, etc.) In the 1st edition the research in these various life domains was discussed only briefly. The second edition will maintain the same organizational structure of the first edition; that is, Part 1 will focus on introduction (definitions and distinctions; examples of measures of subjective well-being, happiness, and life satisfaction; and motives underlying subjective well-being). Part 2 will focus on psychological strategies that are allow people to optimize subjective well-being by engaging in psychological processes related to the relationship between and among life domains (e.g., social life, family life, love life, spiritual life, community life, financial life, etc.) This part will contain four chapters related to these various "inter-domain" processes: bottom-up spillover, top-down spillover, horizontal spillover, and compensation. Part 3 of the book will focus on "intra-domain" psychological strategies designed to optimize subjective well-being. These include re-evaluation based on personal history, re-evaluation based on self-concept, re-evaluation based on social comparison, goal selection, goal implementation and attainment, and re-appraisal. Part 4 of the book will focus on balance processes-how people attempt to create balance in their lives using psychological processes within specific life domains (intra-domain strategies) and processes that relate one domain to another (inter-domain strategies).

Contents

Preface.- Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1: Philosophical Foundations, Definitions, and Measure.- Chapter 2: Further Distinctions among Major Subjective QOL Concepts.- Chapter 3: Consequences of Hedonic Well-being, Life Satisfaction, and Eudaimonia.- Part II: Objective Reality and Its Effects on Subjective QOL.- Chapter 4: Effects of Socio-Economic, Political, Cultural, and Other Macro Factors on Subjective QOL.- Chapter 5: Effects of Income and Wealth on Subjective QOL.- Chapter 6: Effects of Other Demographic Factors on QOL.- Chapter 7: Effects of Personal Activities on Subjective QOL.- Chapter 8: Effects of Genetics, Health, Biology, the Environment, and Drugs on Subjective QOL.- Part III: Subjective Reality and Its Effects on Subjective QOL.- Chapter 9: Effects of Personality on Subjective QOL.- Chapter 10: Effects of Affect and Cognition on Subjective QOL.- Chapter 11: Effects of Values on Subjective QOL.- Chapter 12: Effects of Needs and Need Satisfaction on Subjective QOL.- Chapter 13: Effects of Goals on Subjective QOL.- Chapter 14: Effects of Self-Concept on Subjective QOL.- Chapter 15: Effects of Social Comparisons on Subjective QOL.- Part IV: Life Domains and Their Effects on Subjective QOL.- Chapter 16: Domain Dynamics.- Chapter 17: Work Well-Being.- Chapter 18: Residential Well-Being.- Chapter 19: Material Well-Being.- Chapter 20: Social, Family, and Marital Well-Being.- Chapter 21: Health Well-Being.- Chapter 22: Leisure Well-Being.- Chapter 23: Other Life Domains Varying in Salience.- Part V: Population Groups and QOL.- Chapter 24: Children, Youth, and College Students and Subjective QOL.- Chapter 25: The Elderly and Subjective QOL.- Chapter 26: Women and Subjective QOL.- Chapter 27: Countries and Subjective QOL.- Chapter 28: Other Population Segments and Subjective QOL.- Part VI: Epilogue.- Chapter 29: Integrative Theories of Subjective QOL.- Chapter 30: Final Thoughts about Subjective QOL.- Appendix: Measurement Issues.- References.- Index.- About the Author.