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

Des Gasper

No 483, ISS Working Papers - General Series from International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague

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 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.

Keywords: concepts; quality of life; well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 D60 I30 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-11-01
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