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Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-being Research
No full textField Editor and Editorial Board Member.
Entries under Filomena Maggino's responsibilities:
- Conceptual design of indicators (author: F. Maggino),
- Indicator Development and Construction (author: F. Maggino),
- Data Representation (authors: F. Maggino & M. Trapani),
- Guttman Scale (author: F. Maggino),
- Indicator development and construction (author: F. Maggino),
- Multidimensional Analysis (authors: F. Maggino & M. Fattore),
- Multivariate Statistical Analysis (authors: F. Maggino & M. Fattore),
- Partially Ordered Set (author: M. Fattore),
- Questionnaire Design (author: W. Saris),
- Semantic Differential (author: F. Maggino),
- Subjective Indicators (author: A. Michalos),
- Subjective Weighting (author: K. Land),
- Systems of Indicators (author: H-H. Noll),
- Weighting Schemes (author: K. Land).
The Encyclopedia:
- represents the first comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life
- covers the subject of quality-of-life from a multi disciplinary perspective
- includes the behavioral and social sciences as well as health and healthcare
Encyclopedia's Keywords: Happiness - Health - Patient-reported outcomes research - Positive Psychology - Psychology - QOL - Quality of Life Research - Social Indicators - Sociology - Spirituality - Wealth - Welfare - Wellbeing
Encyclopedia's related subjects: Economics - Medicine - Psychology - Well-Bein
The good society: defining and measuring wellbeing and the role of happiness
No full textThe recent debate on measuring progress of societies
A Life Devoted to Quality of Life - Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos
No full textI believe that anyone has one or more guides (“maestro,” in Italian). I feel to be lucky since I had very few maestri and Alex is one of them.
I met Alex for the first time in 1999 in Rome, at the presentation of a collective book which I also contribute to. I immediately felt a strong scientifi c affi nity and perceived a great humanity. The presentation was done in Italian but it seemed that he understood everything. The message that he transmitted was clear to me: apart from the individual scientific position, the language in the field of quality of life has no limits and boundaries.
From that moment, I kept in touch with him and followed in parallel the development of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies.
I have no need to remark Alex’s high scientific level. In this respect, Alex represented always an important guide for me. But he was an example for me also from the personal point of view.
I noticed that in any conference I attended and where Alex was present, he attended sessions by paying to any presentation always a great attention independently of who was the speaker, famous or young, academic or practitioner, by giving precious suggestions and advices, and by giving encouragements, supports, and opportunities. And there I realized the difference between being a great scholar and being a great maestro.
With time, the initial feelings of affi nity and humanity increased more and more. This happened also in particular occasions and diffi cult moments, when I asked for his suggestions and advices. I felt always being understood and supported.
Chance decided that I had to fi ll two positions that were previously (and successfully) filled also by him, presidency of ISQOLS and direction of Social Indicators Research journal. In these positions I tried and try to be inspired by his example. I am not sure if I was and am successful in interpreting that inspiration, but I will be keeping on being inspired by him
Methodologies to integrate subjective and objective information to build well-being indicators
Full text linkPaper presented at the 3rd Conference of the European Survey Research Association – session “Social Indicators – Integration of objective and subjective indicators: methodological and technical issues” (session chair and organizer F. Maggino), Warsaw, 29 June – 3 July, 200
I modelli di scaling. Confronto tra ipotesi complesse per la misurazione del soggettivo
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Composite Indicators
No full textThe process of synthesizing indicators can be faced through two different approaches, aggregative-compensative and nonaggregative. Composite indicators can be included in the former approach
Developing and using subjective indicators of community quality of life: the case of Florence, Italy
Full text linkProceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, July 17-20 2006.
Session Quality of Life in Cities chaired by Don Giancoli, Robin Richards and Brian O’Leary
Obtaining weights: from objective to subjective approaches in view of more participative methods in the construction of composite indicators of well-being
Full text linkMethodological aspects and technical approaches in measuring subjective well-being
Full text linkMany international initiatives and events reveal the increasing attention on individual perception of living conditions and quality of life, also in consideration of the limits of objective information in describing social well-being.
All this requires a deep reflection and particular attention from statisticians on the necessity of a correct scientific approach to measurement and analysis of subjective data.
In fact, measuring subjective characteristics and creating subjective data require a particular attention and expertise methodology.
This work aims at unravelling some important methodological aspects and issues that should be considered in measuring subjective characteristics and creating subjective data.
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