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Prologue: The Development and Evolution of Research on Social Indicators and Quality of Life (QOL)

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The essay reviews the historical development of the field, mainly in North America, and describes the uses of social indicators and the concept of quality of life (QOL). A concluding section addresses prospects for future developments in social indicators and interdisciplinary research guided by the QOL concept.

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    Related to MDT was the research by Sirgy and his colleagues on judgment theory (Meadow et al. 1992). A life satisfaction measure was developed and validated based on the notion that life satisfaction is a function of a comparison between perceived life accomplishments and a set of evoked standards. These standards involve derivative sources (e.g., the life accomplishments of relatives, friends, associates, past experience, self-concept of strengths and weaknesses, and average person in similar position) and different forms (e.g., standards based on ideal, expected, deserved, minimum tolerable, and predicted outcomes).

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    Clewett and Olson (1974) mentioned in the preface section of their proceedings publication that another conference was scheduled to be held in June 1974 in Oxford, England. The conference organizers were named as Arthur Cullman of Ohio State University and Elizabeth Richards of WARNACO. The sponsor of that conference was named as the British Market Research Society. An attempt was made to locate the proceedings of that conference with no success. At this time, the authors do not know whether such a conference actually took place and whether the proceedings of that conference were published.

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Land, K.C., Michalos, A.C., Sirgy, M.J. (2012). Prologue: The Development and Evolution of Research on Social Indicators and Quality of Life (QOL). In: Land, K., Michalos, A., Sirgy, M. (eds) Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2421-1_1

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