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Fassio, Omar; Rollero, Chiara; De Piccoli, Norma – Social Indicators Research, 2013
Quality of life concerns individual (physical and psychological health), interpersonal (social relationships) and contextual (environment) aspects, which are both subjective and objective. In considering contextual characteristics, empirical findings have demonstrated that people's relation to their living environment is a key issue for their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Check Lists, Environment
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Chan, Alfred C.M.; Cheng, Sheung-Tak; Phillips, David R.; Chi, Iris; Ho, Suzanne S.Y. – Social Indicators Research, 2004
This paper reports a multi-stage study carried out between 1999 and 2001 which aimed to develop an instrument to address the need for a culturally relevant measure of quality of life for Chinese older persons in Hong Kong and similar communities. The first stage of the research involved a focus group study conducted in August 1999 which it was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Focus Groups, Content Analysis
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Masthoff, Erik; Trompenaars, Fons; Van Heck, Guus; Hodiamont, Paul; De Vries, Jolanda – Social Indicators Research, 2006
Studies examining relationships between demographic variables in a general population of psychiatric outpatients and quality of life (QOL), in which QOL was assessed according to current recommendations, have not been performed yet. The aim of this study was to examine one particular aspect of this relationship: the question to what extent QOL…
Descriptors: Demography, Predictor Variables, Quality of Life, Psychiatry