Quality of Life Indexes for National Policy: Review and Agenda for Research

By M. Hagerty, Robert Cummins, A. L. Ferriss, Kenneth C. Land, Alexandros Charles Michalos, Mark Peterson, Andrew Sharpe, J. Sirgy, J. Vogel. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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The Impact of Culture on the Individual Subjective Well-Being of the Italian Population: An Exploratory Study (2011, neutral): “Our results add something new to the picture, in that the relevance of cultural participation for well-being calls for a new wave of policies addressing individual and social issues of human deprivation, thereby widening the scope of well-being focused policy strategies (Hagerty et al. 2001).”
Sources and motives for personal meaning in adulthood (2013, background): “These domains were identified on the basis of previous studies investigating perceived quality of life (Cummins, 1996; Hagerty et al., 2001; Rojas, 2007; WHOQOL Group, 2004).”
Domain Importance in Subjective Well-Being Measures (2016, background): “The debate over the role of domain importance in subjective well-being (SWB) measures has been going on for decades (e.g., Hagerty and Land 2007; Hagerty et al. 2001; Hsieh 2003, 2004, 2012b, 2013; Rojas 2006; Russell and Hubley 2005; Russell et al. 2006).”
The Role of Physically Active Leisure for Enhancing Quality of Life (2014, background): “As suggested by Hagerty et al. (2001), these results also ensure that the eight life domains used in the analysis (family life, overall health, work life, personal achievement, leisure life, community life, intellectual life, and social life) are adequate representation of life as a whole through…”
Environmental Quality and Life Satisfaction: Subjective Versus Objective Measures of Air Quality (2015, result): “As indicated in previous studies, objective conditions can be used to assess the level of life (Hagerty et al., 2001), while the subjective perception reveals the subjective evaluation of the life experience (Campbell et al.”
The Effect of Quality of Work Life (QWL) Programs on Quality of Life (QOL) among Employees at Multinational Companies in Malaysia (2014, background): “Hagerty (2001) defined QOL as s term that implies the quality of a person‟s whole life, not just a separate component part. According to Gilgeous (1998), QOL could be defined as an individual‟s satisfaction with his or her life dimensions comparing with his or her ideal life where evaluation of the ”
An Index of Economic Well-being for Selected OECD Countries (2002, background): “See Hagerty et al. (2001) for an evaluation of the HDI and a large number of other quality of life indexes.”
Perceived quality of life in Taiwan and Hong Kong: an intra-culture comparison (2005, background): “However, there is a difficulty obtaining consensus on operational definitions of quality of life among researchers (Diener, 1994; Gerson, 1976; Hagerty et al., 2001; Land, 1983; Schuessler and Fisher, 1985; Türksever and Atalik, 2001; Veenhoven, 1996).”
Constructing Summary Indices of Quality of Life (2007, background): “Hagerty et al. (2001) review not only the HDI and ISH, but 20 additional QOL indices, and conclude that none satisfactorily addresses the problem of weighting, because none explicitly”
Do subjective indicators measure welfare?: Evidence from 33 European societies (2004, background): “…objective and subjective indicators and have accumulated a considerable body of research (Campbell et al. 1976; Allardt 1993; Diener et al. 1999; Hagerty et al. 2001; Veenhoven 2002; see also the bibliography and databases in the World Database of Happiness at http://www.eur.nl/fsw/…”
Theoretical Perspectives Guiding QOL Indicator Projects (2011, methodology): “Hagerty et al. (2001) reviewed 22 of the most-used QOL indexes from around the world in their seminal article published in Social Indicators Research.”