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Author:   M. Joseph Sirgy
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   3rd ed. 2021
Volume:   83
Weight:   1.246kg
ISBN:  

9783030718909

ISBN 10:   3030718905
Pages:   791
Publication Date:   11 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I: Introduction.- Philosophical Foundations, Definitions, and Measures of Wellbeing.- Further Distinctions among Major Concepts of Wellbeing.- Positive Outcomes of Wellbeing.- Part II: Objective Reality and Effects on Wellbeing.- Effects of Technological, Economic, Political, and Socio-Cultural Factors on Wellbeing.- Effects of Resources (Time, Money, Income, and Wealth) on Wellbeing.- Effects of Demographic Factors on Wellbeing.- Effects of Personal and Consumption Activities on Wellbeing.- Effects of Biology, Drugs, Life Events, and the Environment on Wellbeing.- Part III: Subjective Reality and Effects on Wellbeing.- Effects of Personality on Wellbeing.- Effects of Affect and Cognition on Wellbeing.- Effects of Beliefs and Values on Wellbeing.- Effects of Needs and Need Satisfaction on Wellbeing.- Effects of Goals on Wellbeing.- Effects of Self-Concept on Wellbeing.- Effects of Social Comparisons on Wellbeing.- Part IV: Life Domains and Effects on Wellbeing.- Effects of Domain Dynamics on Wellbeing.- Work Wellbeing.- Residential Wellbeing.- Material Wellbeing.- Social, Family, and Marital Wellbeing.- Health Wellbeing.- Leisure Wellbeing.- Wellbeing in Other Life Domains.- Part V: Population Segments and Wellbeing.- The Wellbeing of Children and Youth.- The Wellbeing of Older Adults.- The Wellbeing of Women.- The Wellbeing of Geographic Population Segments.- The Wellbeing of Specialty Population Segments.- Part VI: Epilogue.- Integrative Models of Wellbeing.- Philosophy and Public Policy Issues Related to Wellbeing.

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M. JOSEPH (JOE) SIRGY is a management psychologist (Ph.D., U/Massachusetts, 1979) and the Virginia Tech Real Estate Professor of Marketing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He has published extensively in the area of marketing, business ethics, and quality of life (QOL). He co-founded the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) in 1995, served as its Executive Director/Treasurer from 1995 to 2011, and as Development Co-Director (2011-present). In 1998, he received the Distinguished Fellow Award from ISQOLS. In 2003, ISQOLS honored him as the Distinguished QOL Researcher for research excellence and a record of lifetime achievement in QOL research. He also served as President of the Academy of Marketing Science (2002-04) from which he received the Distinguished Fellow Award in the early 1990’s and the Harold Berkman Service Award in 2007 (lifetime achievement award for serving the marketing professoriate). In the early 2000’s, he helped co-found the Macromarketing Society and the Community Indicators Consortium and has served as a board member of these two professional associations. He co-founded the journal, Applied Research in Quality of Life, the official journal of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, in 2005; and he has served as co-founding editor (1995-present). He also served editor of the QOL section in the Journal of Macromarketing (1995-2016). He received the Virginia Tech’s Pamplin Teaching Excellence Award/Holtzman Outstanding Educator Award and University Certificate of Teaching Excellence in 2008. In 2010, ISQOLS honored him for excellence and lifetime service to the society. In 2010 he won the Best Paper Award in the Journal of Happiness Studies for his theory of the balanced life; in 2011 he won the Best Paper Award in the Journal of Travel Research for his goal theory of leisure travel satisfaction. In 2012 he was awarded the EuroMed Management Research Award for outstanding achievements and groundbreaking contributions to well-being and quality-of-life research. In 2019 the Macromarketing Society honored him with the Robert W. Nason Award for extraordinary and sustained contributions to the field of Macromarketing.  He is currently serving as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Macromarketing (2020-present) He also was the editor of ISQOLS/Springer book series on International Handbooks in QOL (2008-15), Community QOL Indicators: Best Cases (2004-15), Applied Research in QOL: Best Practices (2008-12). He is currently the co-editor of Springer book series on Human Well-Being and Policy Making (2015-present).  

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