Wolfgang Glatzer Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitiit Franlifurt am Main, Germany ABSTRACT Challenges for the quality of life in the contemporary world were the focus of the Fifth International Quality of Life-Conference in Frankfurt am Main in the year 2003, hosted and organized by the Interna­ tional Society for Quality of Life Studies.

Acknowledgments.- 1. Challenges for Quality of Life.- I: Goal Discussions on Quality of Life.- 2. Social Quality and Quality of Life.- 3. Bringing together the Concepts of Quality of Life and Sustainability.- 4. Subjective Measures of Well-being in Developing Countries.- 5. Towards Enhancing the Quality of Life in Africa. Challenges, Problems, and Prospects.- II: Monitoring Quality of Life.- 6. World Database of Happiness. Continuous Register of Research on Subjective Appreciation of Life.- 7. Comparative Survey Questions on Quality of Life. The “Dynamic Information Centre”.- 8. An Evidence-Based Approach to the Construction of Summary Quality-of-Life Indices.- 9. The Social State of the Netherlands. A Model Based Approach to Describing Living Conditions and Quality of Life.- 10. Biographical Analysis of Quality of Life Processes in Migration.- III: Economic Challenges For Quality Of Life.- 11. Monetary Stability and Quality of Life.- 12. Segmented Quality of Working Life. Regular vs. Non-Regular Workers in Korea.- 13. Does Happiness Pay? An Exploration Based on Panel Data from Russia.- IV: Cultural Challenges for Quality of Life.- 14. Happiness as an Expression of Freedom and Self-Determination. A Comparative Multilevel Analysis.- 15. Satisfaction with Life Domains and Salient Values for the Future. Analyses about Children and their Parents.- 16. Parental Divorce and the Well-being of Adolescent Children. Changes between 1984–1999 in the Netherlands.- 17. Belief in Values and their Perceived Realization as Determinants of Quality of Life. The Case of Kibbutz Members.- V: Options and Restrictions for Quality of Life.- 18. Quality of Life in a Divided Society.- 19. Satisfaction with Health Care Systems. A Comparison of EU Countries.- 20. The Quality of Death as aComponent of Quality of Life.- 21. Life Satisfaction: Can We Produce It?.- About the Authors and Editors.

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