Job Satisfaction, Marital Satisfaction and the Quality of Life: A Review and a Preview

Determinants of Health and the Quality of Life in the Bella Coola Valley

“…Michalos, 2003). One should not forget, of course, that the importance of social support and good family relationships to a good quality of life as well as to good health has been documented in dozens of studies over the past 30 years (Michalos, 1986(Michalos, ,1991. Thus, by including measures of social support and good family relationships in our set of health determinants, we practically guaranteed that the latter would be relatively strongly predictive of dependent global quality of life.…”

Health And Quality Of Life Of Aboriginal Residential School Survivors, Bella Coola Valley, 2001

“…The Likert-type items were easy to read and comprehend, and could be completed quickly. Reliability and validity coefficients have been established and deemed acceptable as a result of repeated use throughout northern British Columbia, as well as globally (Michalos, 1986(Michalos, , 1991Zumbo, 2000, 2001;.…”

Maximizing versus satisficing: Happiness is a matter of choice.

“…Michalos (1980Michalos ( , 1986, in his "multiple discrepancies theory," suggests that in assessing well-being, people evaluate not only what they have in relation to others, but also what they have in relation to what they expected to have, what they have had in the past, what they expect to have in the future, what they need, and what they deserve. Each of these assessments is a possible source of systematic differences between satisficers and maximizers, with maximizers consistently experiencing larger "gaps" between hopes and expectations on the one hand, and reality on the other, than satisficers do.…”