The book is unique in two distinct ways. First, it focuses on improving quality of life in contrast to other books that have tended to focus more on its conceptualization and assessment. Second, it deals with improving quality of life in a variety of disabled populations, not just one, and includes chapters on people with chronic mental or physical conditions and those without disabilities at all (i.e. so-called normal people). The book outlines some of the challenges and controversies in the quality-of-life domain and attempts to synthesize the key issue and to draw generalizable...
The book is unique in two distinct ways. First, it focuses on improving quality of life in contrast to other books that have tended to focus more on i...
The purpose of this book is to show that the prevalent view of personal characteristics, which has been influenced to a large extent by factor analysis, may not be the soundest or the most useful. Structural equation modeling entails a more comprehensive approach to modeling relationships between variables than factor analysis and enables one to test alternative models to the factor model in accounting for these relationships.
In this work this proposition is demonstrated by drawing on the research the authors have conducted in three important domains of personal...
The purpose of this book is to show that the prevalent view of personal characteristics, which has been influenced to a large extent by factor anal...
