Proceedings of the 7th Australian Conference on Quality of Life

Published by Deakin University
ISBN 1 74156 039 x

Held on the 24th November 2005 at the Toorak Campus of Deakin University

Proceedings Editors
Jed Blore
Alison Gluskie
Yvonne MacKay

These Conference Proceedings contain refereed research papers. Each full written version of a paper presented at the conference is a separate publication that has received two independent peer reviews. The ACQOL Conference Committee intends that the proceedings are published in such a way that they will be recognised as a DEST publication (DEST points: E1 full written-refereed proceedings.

The conference participants represented three countries (Australia, Hong Kong and Croatia) and three States Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales).

Year 2006

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Presenter	Conference Paper
David Caldwell	The Language of Subjective Wellbeing (doc ~ 298kb)
Robert Cummins	The wellbeing of caregivers (ppt ~ 340kb)
Megan Davidson	Rasch analysis of the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire (ppt ~ 623kb)
Richard Eckersley	Patterns and trends in quality of life: A ‘synthesis’ approach (ppt ~ 1.4mb)
Pieter Kriel	Quality of Work Life and Business Ethics: First we shoot all the economists! (pdf ~ 103kb)
Jeff McLean	Social capital and quality of life (doc ~ 984kb)
Andrew McNess	A qualitative variant of The Friendship Scale: bereaved young adults and social isolation (doc ~ 52kb)
Fiona Newton	Sexual function and mood differences among men awaiting treatment for localised prostate cancer and men in the general community (doc ~ 367kb)
Kathryn Page	Subjective Wellbeing in the Workplace [document] (doc ~ 165kb) Subjective Wellbeing in the Workplace [presentation] (ppt ~ 132kb)
Sujatha Shanmugasundaram	Quality of life of individuals is a holistic approach (ppt ~ 276kb)
Jan Stewart	Male and Female Retirees and Quality of Life (ppt ~ 219kb)
John Thomas	Satyananda Yogic Lifestyle and Subjective Wellbeing (doc ~ 219kb)
Henk Van Leeuwen	The Experience of Being (doc ~ 197kb)
Dianne Vella-Brodrick	Comparison of sociodemographic, personality and social support variables as predictors of quality of life (ppt ~ 386kb)
Addie Wootten	Health-related quality of life of partners of patients treated for localised prostate cancer two or more years ago: Are there individual characteristics that influence the outcome? (doc ~ 195kb)