Bücher der Reihe SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research

This book explores the broad view on child well-being and the quality of life research. After an exploration of the shifts and changes in the child well-being indicator movement and trends of child well-being measurements, the book turns to research on Tsunami-affected children.

This short book discusses the relatively new concept of project-based leisure in leisure research, and relates it to individual and community well-being and quality of life. The book defines PBL as a short-term, reasonably complicated, one-off or occasional, though infrequent, creative undertaking carried out in free time, or time free of disagreeable obligation. Such leisure requires considerable planning, effort, and sometimes skill or knowledge. The book discusses how PBL contributes to subjective well-being, though doing so more modestly than serious leisure and occupational devotion. The book surveys existing field research of the author¿s own and other studies, and provides original insights on how PBL activities can be used to generate community involvement and subjective well-being.

This book presents the results of the Canadian Holistic Health in Children project.

Using high-quality academic and institutional data sources, the Social Cohesion Radar provides insights into the level and development of social cohesion over a period of almost 25 years internationally, among 34 European Union and OECD members, and regionally, among the 16 federal states of Germany.

This brief provides approaches to help family caregivers understand the role of caregiving, its challenges and consequences.

The social sciences offer a variety of theories on how children develop, and various theories and disciplines apply their own vocabularies and conceptualise different aspects of the processes of socialization.

This brief defines student wellbeing and outlines seven evidence-informed pathways that schools can take to promote student wellbeing and develop their school as an enabling institution. The benefits of a school-wide focus on student wellbeing for student engagement in learning and their success in school and in life are outlined.

Within the framework of the dual processing theory, backed up by findings in positive psychology, intuition turns out to be the capacity to carry out complex cognitive operations within a specific domain of operations familiar to the agent.

This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition.

Thereafter it reviews both qualitative and quantitative research findings concerning the occurrence of other-oriented hope in several domains, including other-oriented hope among parents of ill children, other-oriented hope among caregivers and other-oriented hope among the elderly.

This Brief provides perspectives on bringing together elements of learning and community approaches for promoting overall wellbeing. Starting with foundational concepts of community wellbeing and community learning, the briefs provides an exploration of constructs and ideas for exploring application.

This book locates, organizes and summarizes information about the use of child indicators in an advocacy context. This book provides a framework for scholars in a variety of disciplines that will help them to structure their thinking about the use of such indicators in a public context.

The book specifically examines how these societal and educational changes have contributed to the transitory nature of emerging adulthood and the resulting consequences. The book provides a holistic and thorough examination of emerging adulthood in general and the parental dynamics present during this stage, in particular.

This book presents a discussion of happiness that takes the shape of a dialogue between contemplative knowledge and practice or the wisdom traditions and the social sciences. It explores topics such as the pursuit of a good life, the pursuit of eudaimonia and the meaning of economic and social suffering from the perspective of the social sciences.

The Flourishing Children Project undertook the development of scales for adolescents ages 12-17 for 19 aspects of flourishing covering six domains: flourishing in school and work, personal flourishing, flourishing in relationships, relationship skills, helping others to flourish, and environmental stewardship.

This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and measures of societal progress.

In short, the book offers both a deeper understanding of what happiness is about, and a framework for improving well-being.An array of brain modules has evolved to care for various pursuits, but recent studies suggest that they converge on shared neural circuits designed to generate positive and negative mood.

This briefs reviews the literature on alexithymia with a particular focus on the relation between positive well-being and alexithymia.

This work examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life.

This volume is a unique contribution to the exploration of a new perspective in the study of well-being, which tries to overcome the quantification bias by creating an account of 'the good life' in a specific place. The volume demonstrates through the Bolivian case study the value of qualitative research for well-being studies.

Reunification is a primary goal of foster care systems and the most common permanency planning decision. It is defined as the return of children placed in protective care to the home of their birth family and used to describe the act of restoring a child in out-of-home care back to the biological family.

In the case of young people, it has been observed that even if they live in negative physical, social and contextual conditions, they can nevertheless experience a relatively positive experience in relation to their quality of life, depending on the strategies and capabilities that they generate in relation to the context.

There are several unique features of this book on the spiritual well-being of Chinese older adults. Conceptually, such effort is important because there is a general lack of well-articulated models of spiritual well-being for Chinese people. Third, a Spiritual Enhancement Group for Chinese Elders was developed and its effectiveness was evaluated.

This birefs examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life.

This book presents an analysis of active ageing and physical activity from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This briefs provides foundations of both community wellbeing and community development, and the relationships between the two areas, including both similarities and differences. Community development, as an established discipline, is one framework that can help further understanding of community well-being, and is an allied concept.

This brief studies the phenomenon of street children in two cities in Peru. This brief investigates when and why the transition from children on the street (street-working children) to children of the street (street living children) takes place and elucidates how they survive.

This briefs summarizes the research on positive well-being in children, with a particular focus on their happiness. It starts with a discussion of the constructs of positive psychology (i.e., well-being, happiness and life satisfaction), and then outlines the research that shows the importance of studying well-being.

This book explores social factors that influence well-being, as well as the relationship between these factors. In doing so, it reflects the new and exciting research that is being conducted at the intersection between social factors, policy, impacts, and community well-being.

This volume describes how children's experience with violence may affect and endanger their education, as well as their physical safety and their general well-being.