Books in the Quality of Life in Asia series

This book reviews the theories regarding commonly occurring developmental issues among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong, the application of Positive Youth Development (PYD) to a large-scale primary prevention program and the impact of PYD on student well-being, indexed according to adolescent developmental issue.

This book examines service-learning - a valuable means of promoting civic engagement and youth leadership in students by enabling them to apply their knowledge to needy people in the community.

Part I Introduction.- 1.Quality of Life in Japan: Contemporary Approaches and Analysis.- 2.Happiness in Japan: A Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort Analysis based on JGSS Cumulative Data 2000-2015.- Part II Income, Poverty and Happiness.- 3.Happiness in Contemporary Japan: Study of Lifestyle and Values Using the Relative Income Hypothesis.- 4.Income, Intra-household Bargaining Power and the Happiness of Japanese Married Women.- 5.Time Poverty and Maternal Wellbeing in Japan.- Part III  Aging, Gender, and Migration.- 6.Changes in the Meaning of the Elderly Living with Children: An Analysis of Household Income Inequality among the Japanese Elderly.- 7.Ancestor Worship and Quality of Life: Transforming Bonds with the Deceased in Contemporary Japan.- 8.Intimacy, Similarity, and Equality among Married People in East Asia.- 9.Quality of Life in Japan and Emigration: The Perspectives of Japanese Skilled Immigrants in Australia.