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This paper describes some of the expectations and attitudes of British Columbians toward possible events in the first one hundred years of the third millennium, and explains their happiness and satisfaction with the quality of their lives. We report on results of two independent surveys taken in October and November 1999, one containing 499 respondents living south of Hundred Mile House and the other containing 969 respondents living north of Hundred Mile House. We compare respondents’ self-reported health with the self-reported health of 142,674 Americans from the 50 states of the USA in 1998. Answers to open-ended questions about respondents’ greatest fears, hopes and things they would change to improve the quality of their lives are reviewed. We explain respondents’ satisfaction with life as a whole, happiness and satisfaction with the overall quality of life from a limited set of 16 variables, which allows us to compare our British Columbian results with results from seven other surveys taken over nearly 20 years. Finally, the relative importance of our predictor variables for explaining each of the global assessments is examined.
Michalos, A.C., & Zumbo, B.C.: 2000. British Columbians’ expectations and Attitudes going into the third millennium.
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The authors would like to express their appreciation to Irene Huse, Rob van Adrichem, Peter Godfrey and John Harding for the help they gave us in the development, administration, analysis and reporting of the survey.
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Michalos, A.C., Zumbo, B.D. (2017). British Columbians’ Expectations and Attitudes Going into the Third Millennium. In: Development of Quality of Life Theory and Its Instruments. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51149-8_9
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