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Quality of Life: Definition and Measurement
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RETRACTION NOTICE This article has been retracted due to violating Good Publication Practice and not complying to EJOPS's/PsychOpen's Ethical Guidelines on plagiarism and redundant or concurrent Publication. Quality of life (QoL) can be defined in many ways, making its measurement and incorporation into scientific study difficult. This is a theoretical paper regarding the definition and measuring of quality of life. The search strategy included a combination of key words 'quality of life', 'definition of QoL' as well as 'measuring QoL' in titles using Medline and Google Scholar databases. Quality of life is a complex, multifaceted construct that requires multiple approaches from different theoretical angles. Scientists from the various disciplines of social science are encouraged to exploit the strengths of other’s contributions in a collaborative effort. A thorough understanding of subjective well-being requires knowledge of how objective conditions influence people’s evaluations of their lives. Similarly, a complete understanding of objective indicators and how to select them requires that we understand people’s values, and have knowledge about how objective indicators influence people’s experience of well-being.
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- Authors
- Theofilou, P.
- Venue
- Europe’s Journal of Psychology
- Published
- 2013-02-28
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 150-162
- ISSN
- 1841-0413 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1497415167
- Cited by
- 372
- References
- 41
- FWCI
- 30.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Status
- Retracted
- Open access
- diamond
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