Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in Developing Countries.
Camfield, Laura (2004) Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in Developing Countries. In: Challenges for the quality of life in contemporary societies. Kluwer.
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Abstract
The paper explores the conceptual and methodological issues entailed in using subjective measures of well-being in developing countries. In the first part I define, situate and contrast subjective quality of life (QoL), subjective well-being (SWB), and well-being. I also look at the conceptual and methodological shortcomings of subjective measures of well-being and suggest ways of overcoming these by combining different approaches. I then explore how an expanded concept of subjective quality of life fits into the theoretical framework of the UK-based Well-being in Developing Countries study (or WeD), specifically how it plans to produce a new, “development-related” profile of quality of life, drawing on the methodology of the WHOQOL group (1995; 1998).
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of International Development |
Depositing User: | Laura Camfield |
Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2011 10:39 |
Last Modified: | 30 Jan 2021 00:32 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/24935 |
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