Subjective Well-Being and Security

✍ Scribed by Dave Webb, Eduardo Wills-Herrera (auth.), Dave Webb, Eduardo Wills-Herrera (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Series: Social Indicators Research Series 46
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Security, or the perceived lack thereof, impacts on quality of life at many levels. An important consideration is how security should be best understood. Although definitions of how to understand human security have been proposed, it is not clear how security should be measured. Security can be analyzed from different perspectives i.e., personal security, economic security, health security, political security, cyber security etc. In this volume, all facets of research pertaining to security and subjective well-being (SWB) are discussed, including among others: Objective and subjective measures of security; Multiple security dimensions; The relationship between security and SWB and possible mediators and moderators; Cultural and religious influences on security and SWB; Present and future security; Perceptions of crime in cities and regions and development of relevant indicators; Security in a globalized era and its relationship to SWB; Security, major events and SWB

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Safety and Subjective Well-Being: A Perspective from the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index....Pages 13-29
Terror, Fear and Individual and Community Well-Being....Pages 31-43
Personal Security and Fear of Crime as Predictors of Subjective Well-Being....Pages 45-67
The Impact of Objective and Subjective Measures of Security on Subjective Well Being: Evidence from Portugal....Pages 69-89
An Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affects Life Satisfaction....Pages 91-147
State of Affliction: Fear of Crime and Quality of Life in South Africa....Pages 149-175
The Relationship Between Perceptions of Insecurity, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being: Empirical Evidences from Areas of Rural Conflict in Colombia....Pages 177-196
The Linkages Between Insecurity, Health, and Well-Being in Latin America: An Initial Exploration Based on Happiness Surveys....Pages 197-252
Satisfaction with Present Safety and Future Security as Components of Personal Well-Being Among Young People: Relationships with Other Psychosocial Constructs....Pages 253-290
Security and Well-Being in the Triple Frontier Area of Latin America: Community Awareness of Child Trafficking, the Smuggling of Persons and Sex Tourism....Pages 291-322
Back Matter....Pages 323-328

✦ Subjects

Quality of Life Research