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Quality of life: Its definition and measurement☆
David John Felce,Jonathan Perry +1 more
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A model of quality of life is proposed that integrates objective and subjective indicators, a broad range of life domains, and individual values, and allows for objective comparisons to be made between the situations of particular groups and what is normative.About:
This article is published in Research in Developmental Disabilities.The article was published on 1995-01-01. It has received 1444 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Quality of life (healthcare) & Well-being.read more
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Refining the relationship between personality and subjective well-being.
TL;DR: Analysis of individual measures of personality and categories of SWB shows that different personality and SWB scales can be substantively different and that the relationship between the two is typically much larger than previous meta-analyses have indicated.
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The challenge of defining wellbeing
TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-disciplinary review explores past attempts to define wellbeing and provides an overview of the main theoretical perspectives, from the work of Aristotle to the present day, concluding that it would be appropriate for a new definition of wellbeing to centre on a state of equilibrium or balance that can be affected by life events or challenges.
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The Domains of Life Satisfaction: An Attempt to Order Chaos
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempted to group 173 different domains names derived from the literature under seven headings as used by the Comprehensive Quality of Life Scale (ComQol) and found that 68% could be classified in this way.
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Health, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Quality of Life: What is the Difference?
Milad Karimi,John Brazier +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that the concept of HRQoL as used now is confusing and could be defined as the way health is empirically estimated to affect QoL or use the term to only signify the utility associated with a health state.
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A Kinect-based system for physical rehabilitation: a pilot study for young adults with motor disabilities.
TL;DR: Data showed that the two participants significantly increased their motivation for physical rehabilitation, thus improving exercise performance during the intervention phases, and this study assessed the possibility of rehabilitating two young adults with motor impairments using a Kinect-based system in a public school setting.
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Social Indicators of Well-Being: Americans' Perceptions of Life Quality
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed indicators of perceived well-being and developed a conceptual model to predict the quality of life of a person in the United Kingdom, based on the relationship between single concern measures and the global measures.
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Developing Methods for Measuring Perceived Well-Being@@@Social Indicators of Well-Being: Americans' Perceptions of Life Quality.
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The Quality of American Life: Perceptions, Evaluations, and Satisfactions
TL;DR: This work is indispensable for any social scientist concerned with the authors' current predicaments, and especially for those among us who are committed to the idea of the welfare system and yet have begun to realize that spending is not enough.
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Stress-Related Transactions between Person and Environment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors distinguish between two metatheoretical concepts, transaction and interaction, to address internal and external determinants of behavior in stress, and they have been drawn inexorably toward an emphasis on transaction by the very nature of stress phenomena and the evolving theoretical perspective within which they have worked.
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A Quality of Life Interview for the chronically mentally ill.
TL;DR: The development and psychometric evaluation of a structured, 45-minute Quality of Life Interview for the chronically mentally ill is described, which has satisfactory reliability and validity.
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