The concepts of well-being and quality of life concern evaluative judgements. There is insufficient understanding in current literature that these judgements are made variously due to not only use of 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.

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Gasper, D. (2009). Understanding the diversity of conceptions of well-being and quality of life (No. 483). ISS Working Paper Series / General Series (Vol. 483, pp. 1–24). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/18710