Quality of life research : a critical introduction

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Figures and Tables = ⅸ
• Apologia = xi
• Preface = xiii
• Acknowledgments = xvii
• PART ONE - THEORY
• 1 Introduction - Where Has QOL Come From? = 3
• QOL as the State of States = 3
• Varieties of Social Indicators = 10
• More Recent Developments = 18
• QOL as a State of Persons = 22
• In Summary = 24
• Notes = 24
• Study Questions = 25
• Suggestions for Further Reading = 25
• 2 A Life of Quality - Just What Does QOL Mean? = 26
• Preamble = 26
• Defining Quality of Life = 27
• Definitions of QOL = 29
• Quality of Life Defined as a Population-level Construct = 30
• Quality of Life as an Individual-level Construct = 49
• Universal QOL Definitions = 49
• The Forced Abstraction of the Meaning of QOL = 57
• In Summary = 60
• Notes = 61
• Study Questions = 61
• Suggestions for Further Reading = 62
• 3 Whose Quality of Life Is It Anyway? = 63
• Conceptual and Philosophical Issues = 63
• The Views of 'Patients' = 73
• Quality of Life and the Value of Life = 74
• Can QOL Assessment Negatively Affect Quality of Life? = 76
• In Summary = 81
• Notes = 82
• Study Questions = 83
• Suggestions for Further Reading = 83
• 4 Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches = 84
• Introduction - What is QOL Research for? = 84
• Quantitative Approaches to QOL Research = 88
• Qualitative Approaches = 103
• A Synthesis? = 115
• Notes = 116
• Study Questions = 117
• Suggestions for Further Reading = 117
• PART TWO - PRACTICE
• 5 Researching QOL as Cultural Object = 121
• Quality of Life in Popular Culture - the Contribution of Foucauldian Thought = 122
• The Psy-complex and the Social Regulation of (Dis)order = 125
• Lifestyles and Intellectual Disability in 'Community Care' Policy : The Uses of QOL = 128
• 'Quality of Life' - Core Theme in the Corporate Discourse = 130
• In Summary = 136
• Notes = 138
• Study Questions = 138
• Suggestions for Further Reading = 138
• 6 QOL in Health and Social Care Research = 139
• Health-related QOL = 139
• What are QALYs and DALYs? = 143
• Utility Measures = 147
• DALYs and Their Difficulties = 156
• Difficulties with the QALY and DALY Approach : Dying and Disability = 162
• In Summary = 165
• Notes = 165
• Study Questions = 165
• Suggestions for Further Reading = 166
• 7 QOL Research with Special Populations = 167
• Applied QOL Research = 167
• Population-Specific Measures - the Work of Schalock and Keith = 169
• Population-Specific QOL Measures as Service Evaluation Tools = 170
• Britain - the Rapley and Beyer(1996, 1998) Studies = 171
• Australia - the Rapley and Hopgood(1997) Study = 176
• QOL Research with Psychiatric Populations = 180
• Psychiatric Studies = 181
• In Summary = 186
• Notes = 186
• Study Questions = 188
• Suggestions for Further Reading = 189
• 8 Researching QOL as a Psychological Object = 190
• QOL as a Psychological Object = 190
• Subjective Well-being as Brain State = 191
• A Critique of the Homeostatic Model = 191
• Affective and Cognitive Components of Subjective Well-being = 193
• A Normative Standard for Subjective Well-being = 194
• A Role for Circumstances? = 195
• Life Events and Subjective Well-being = 196
• Personality and Subjective Well-being = 197
• 'Buffers' of Subjective Well-being = 200
• Motivation, Needs and Subjective Well-being = 202
• Problems with the Assumption of Met Needs = 203
• Adaptation to Life and Subjective Well-being = 206
• Subjective Well-being, Joy and Depression = 208
• In Summary = 210
• Notes = 211
• Study Questions = 211
• Suggestions for Further Reading = 211
• 9 Should We 'Hang up Quality of Life as a Hopeless Term'? = 212
• Rethinking Quality of Life = 213
• Quality of Life as a Member's Term = 216
• Ways Forward = 220
• Study Questions = 225
• Suggestions for Further Reading = 225
• Appendices = 227
• 1 Transcription Conventions = 227
• 2 The WHOQOL-BREF = 229
• 3 Resources = 249
• References = 252
• Index = 278