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This training book is designed to help professionals enhance their knowledge of community quality-of-life indicators, and to develop viable community projects. Chapter 1 describes the theoretical concepts that guide the formulation of community indicator projects. Chapter 2 creates a sample community indicator project as a template of the entire process. Chapter 3 describes the planning process: how to identify sponsors, secure funding, develop an organizational structure, select a quality-of-life model, select indicators, and so on. Chapter 4 focuses on data collection. Finally, Chapter 5 describes efforts related to dissemination and promotion of community indicators projects. Written by a stalwart in the field of quality-of-life research, this book provides the tools of sound community project planning for quality-of-life researchers, social workers, social marketers, community research organizations, and policy-makers

"Much research has documented concepts related to the balanced life in the literatures of organizational/industrial psychology and human resource management. These concepts include work-life balance, work-family conflict, work-family interference, and work-family interface (see literature reviews of various concepts related to work-life balance by Allen et al., 2000; Bulger & Fisher, 2012; Byron, 2005; Casper et al., 2007; Danna & Griffin, 1999; Eby et al., 2005; Eby, Maher, & Butts, 2010; Greenhaus & Allen 2011; Kalliath & Brough, 2008; Kossek & Ozeki, 1998; Lee & Sirgy, 2017; McNall, Nicklia, & Masuda, 2010; Sirgy & Lee, 2016, 2017; Sirgy et al., 2008; Yasbek, 2004). In the literature on subjective well-being and quality of life, only a few studies were found that specifically addressed the concept of life balance. For example, Diener, Ng, and Tov (2008) reported a study involving a representative sample from around the world to assess people's affect balance (positive versus negative affect) on the previous day and the various activities they had engaged in. The study found that the most popular activity that most people engaged in was socializing with family and friends. In this context, the study also found a decreasing marginal utility of this type of activity. That is, to ensure an optimal level of life satisfaction, people attempted to engage in a variety of activities because satisfaction from one type of activity diminishes in time. Sheldon and Niemiec (2006) demonstrated that life balance is achieved not only by the fulfillment of psychological needs (needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness) but a balanced effect among the satisfaction of these needs"--

This training book is designed to help professionals enhance their knowledge of community quality-of-life indicators, and to develop viable community projects. Chapter 1 describes the theoretical concepts that guide the formulation of community indicator projects. Chapter 2 creates a sample community indicator project as a template of the entire process. Chapter 3 describes the planning process: how to identify sponsors, secure funding, develop an organizational structure, select a quality-of-life model, select indicators, and so on. Chapter 4 focuses on data collection. Finally, Chapter 5 describes efforts related to dissemination and promotion of community indicators projects. Written by a stalwart in the field of quality-of-life research, this book provides the tools of sound community project planning for quality-of-life researchers, social workers, social marketers, community research organizations, and policy-makers.

The book provides a new theory of well-being designed to integrate many disparate concepts of well-being, such as subjective well-being, personal happiness, mental well-being, emotional well-being, psychological well-being, hedonic well-being, social well-being, life satisfaction, domain satisfaction, and eudaimonia. It lays the foundation for a new a theory of mental well-being based on a hierarchical perspective of positive mental health and guided by the concept of positive balance. Written by a well-known expert in the field, this book addresses the issue of positive balance related to physiological, emotional, cognitive, meta-cognitive, developmental and social-ecological levels of an individual and analyses the factors at each level that contribute to an individual's positive mental health experience. It discusses in detail the effects of neurochemicals such as dopamine, serotonin, or cortisol; positive and negative affect; satisfaction in salient and multiple life domains vis-à-vis dissatisfaction in life domains; positive versus negative evaluations about one's life using certain standards of comparison; positive psychological traits of personal growth and intrinsic motivation, etc. vis-à-vis negative traits like pessimism and impulsiveness; and perceived social resources like social contribution and social actualization vis-à-vis perceived constraints like exclusion and ostracism. This original work is of interest to students, researchers and practitioners of quality of life and wellbeing studies, positive psychology, developmental psychology and mental health.

AbstractAn attempt is made in this paper to develop a self‐cybernetic model of human behavior, explaining behavior in terms of self‐concept and cybernetics. The integrated model is essentially a self‐cybernetic system described as a cyclical process involving monitor, input, comparator, and output processes. The monitor component is described in terms of self‐monitoring; input component is described in terms of self‐perception; comparator component is described in terms of self‐evaluation; and the output of the self‐cybernetic system is described in terms of three psychological processes—behavior change, cognitive change, and information search. It is argued that a self‐cybernetic system can be analyzed as a series of self‐cybernetics cycles in time (t—1, t, t+1,…, t+n). Each self‐cybernetic cycle starts out with a self‐monitoring process that guides the person to monitor certain self‐related information from the environment and/or activates certain self‐expectancies from memory. The input serves to categorize the information as similar/dissimilar to self‐expectancies evoked from memory. Information that is self‐debasing attributed to the self and/or inconsistent with the evoked self‐expectancy produces a stress signal forcing the individual to take corrective action through (1) cognitive change, (2) behavior change, (3) information search, or (4) a comparator operation. Cognitive change essentially involves employing one of the following three coping strategies: (1) self‐concept differentiation, (2) self‐concept compartmentalization, or (3) self‐concept change. Behavior change involves decision making to engage in a course of action to reduce the stress. Information search involves entering into an information search cybernetic cycle having its own monitor, input, comparator, and output functions. A comparator operation involves a self‐evaluation in which the self‐perception (input) is evaluated in relation to a self‐expectancy (referent). Unfavorable self‐evaluations produce a stress signal which induces the person to engage in an output‐related operation—cognitive change, behavior change, or information search.

Prologue: An Introduction to QOL Research in Tourism -- Part I: QOL Research in Relation to Tourists -- Tourist consumption behavior and QOL, S. Kruger, C. Laesser, J. O'Leary, H. Oppewal, F. Dimanche -- Place and destination attachment and QOL, A. Graefe, D. Williams -- Subjective indicators of QOL and tourism, G. Godbey, S. McMahon, D. Kleiber -- Destination competitiveness from the perspectives of tourists and QOL, F. Meng -- Linking tourist satisfaction to happiness and QOL, S. Filep -- Phases of travel experiences, satisfaction – QOL, J. Neal, G. Richards -- Salient dimensions of tourist satisfaction and QOL, Y. Ekinci, S. Kruger, K. Weiermair -- Vacation experience and QOL of individuals (segmentation), S. Dolnicar, G. Jennings -- Impacts of the interaction between host and guest on QOL, R. Harrill, R. Li, E. Fredline -- Impacts of gaming on QOL of participants (visitors), K. Hsu, S. Baloglu -- Subjective wellbeing of QOL and medical tourism C. Cohen -- Subjective wellbeing of QOL and motivation, G. Dann -- QOL & medical tourism, T. Johnson -- Information technology in tourism and QOL, D. Fesenmaier, N. Christodulido -- Destination competitiveness from the perspectives of tourists and QOL, F. Meng -- Linking tourist satisfaction to happiness and QOL, S. Filep -- Part II: QOL Research in Relation to Host Communities -- Objective indicators of QOL and tourism, P. Laszlo, E. Smeral, R. Perdue -- Destination PLC and QOL of residents, D. Pearce, J. K. Kim, M. Uysal, J. Sirgy -- Tourism development stages and QOL of residents, K. Kim, M. Uysal, J. Sirgy -- Destination competitiveness from the perspectives of providers and QOL, L. Dwyer, G. Crouch, D. Foster -- Perceptions of tourism Impacts and satisfaction with particular life domains (material well-being, emotional well-being, community well-being, and health and safety well-being), K. Kim, X. Li, J. Sirgy, M. Uysal, S. Kruger -- Tourism – recreation conservation and QOL, S. Nicholls, D. Timothy -- Sustainable tourism and QOL, J. Carlsen, T. Tyrrell, E. Turk, D. Weaver -- Economic value of tourism and QOL of residents, L. Dwyer, A.S. Cantallops -- Festivals, events and QOL, L. Jago, G. Moscardo, M. Larson -- Tourism as a revitalization tool of culture and heritage and QOL, J. Liburd, A. Hergesell, L. Jago -- Building social capital to enhance QOL of residents in destinations, C. Jurowski, N. McGehee -- Relationship between lessened / improved QOL and support for tourism, K. Andereck, R. Knopt, C. Vogt -- Different stakeholders in tourism and their perceptions of impacts of tourism on QOL, N. Nickerson, K. Backman -- Impacts of gaming on QOL of residents and types of residents, K. Hsu, W. Roehl -- Tourism development of improvement approaches to enhancing QOL of residents, Allen, T. Var, G. Ozdemir, N. Nickerson -- Community involvement in tourism planning and development and QOL, P. Burns, Lisa Chase, C. Tosun, D. Lund-Durlacher -- Relationship between carrying capacity of destinations and QOL of residents, D. Kerstetter, G. Wall, A. Graefe -- Rural tourism and QOL, P. Long, R. Perdue -- Urban tourism and QOL, G. Ashworth, H. Timmermans, D. Edwards -- Volunteer tourism and QOL, N. McGehee, S. Wearing -- QOL of tourism indicators - development of QOL indicators for tourism, L. Pennington-Gray, Teresa C.H. Tao -- Community tourism & QOL in Hong Kong, Ap Community tourism & QOL in South Carolina: A case study, Backman The effect of tourism on the housing market: the case of Sardinia, B. Blagi, A. Faggian -- Poverty elimination through tourism - QOL, R. Croes, M. Vanegas -- Epilogue: A Synthesis of the QOL Research in Tourism .