Understanding the Diversity of Conceptions of Well-Being and Quality of Life
June 2010
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volume 39, issue 3 pp 351-360.
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The concepts of well-being and quality of life concern evaluative judgements. There is insufficient understanding in current literature that these judgements aremadevariously due to the use of not only differing values and differing research instruments but also differing standpoints, differing purposes, and differing theoretical views and ontological presuppositions. The paper elucidates these sources of differences and how they underlie the wide diversity of current conceptions.
Keywords
- Quality of life
- Eudaimonic and hedonic well-being
- Evaluation methodologies
- Paradoxes of well-being
- Research traditions
- Value perspectives
Classifications using
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) Classification System
- I30 : Welfare and Poverty: General
- A13 : Relation of Economics to Social Values
- Z13 : Social Norms and Social Capital; Social Networks
- D60 : Welfare Economics: General
