According to Pavot & Diener (2008), subjective quality of life (QDL) contains two elements: satisfaction with life (or the cognitive component) and subjective happiness (or the affective component). The most… Click to show full abstract
According to Pavot & Diener (2008), subjective quality of life (QDL) contains two elements: satisfaction with life (or the cognitive component) and subjective happiness (or the affective component). The most frequently used scale to measure satisfaction with life is the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) (Diener et al., 1985) and the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS) is used to measure subjective happiness (Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999). On this work we use the SWLS to measure cognitive QDL, or simply QDL.
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