Ming-Chang (Hrsg.) Tsai

Quality of Life in Japan

Contemporary Perspectives on Happiness

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This edited volume approaches the life experiences and well-being of Japanese people from an empirical perspective. It explores the current trend of happiness among Japanese over time and examines the association of income, lifestyle, and perceived life conditions using modern econometric models with supplementary qualitative observations. Issues relating to ageing, gender, household division of labour, and emigration are also examined to provide a wide scope of results based on both survey and field methods for culturally sensitive researchers. Going beyond the conventional cultural interpretation of the uniqueness of the Japanese case, this… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Iwai, Noriko (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-981-1389-09-2
EAN: 9789811389092
Produktnummer: 31622358
Verlag: Springer Nature EN
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 217 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm 0 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
Reihenbandnummer: 13
Sonstiges: Research

Über den Autor

Ming-Chang Tsai is a Research Fellow in Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Working from a comparative sociological approach to life quality research, he concentrates on Asian populations to understand the influences of culture and social structures in how people in this region live happily or unhappily. He receives the Research Fellow Award from the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies.Noriko Iwai is Director of Japanese General Social Surveys (JGSS) Research Center and Professor of Faculty of Business Administration, Osaka University of Commerce, Japan. Leading the JGSS's Project and East Asian Social Survey Project in past decades, she has been elucidating both the changing and persistent aspects in Japanese people's social values and behaviours. Besides family studies, the scope of her research has extended to the impact of natural disasters on people's quality of life.