CHAPTER 6: JOB SATISFACTION, MARITAL SATISFACTION AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE: A REVIEW AND A PREVIEW.

The paper contains a global review of recent work on social indicators or quality of life measurement and more specific reviews of work on job satisfaction, satisfaction and happiness with life as a whole, and martial and sexual satisfaction. A variety of species of gap-theoretic explanatory theories are described and their alleged successes are noted. Finally, multiple discrepancies theories are sketched and some results of their application are indicated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]