Understanding the diversity of conceptions of well-being and quality of life

Des Gasper

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2010, vol. 39, issue 3, 351-360

Abstract: 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 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; Value perspectives; Research traditions; Paradoxes of well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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