Differentiate patterns of individually perceived quality of life in big cities, towns and rural areas

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Gyvenimo kokybė; Subjektyvus gyvenimo kokybės suvokimas; Quality of life (QoL); Local place; Social indicators; Subjective QoL; Objective QoL; Subjective QoL perception.

ENGenerally, it is agreed that QoL differs in diverse local places. Explaining these differences remains a complex and challenging problem. Scientific research has concluded that the impacts of socio-economic circumstances in local places (measured by social indicators) on subjectively perceived individual QoL are not direct, but complex, versatile and diverse. Objective differ-ences of socio-economic factors in local places suggest that personal characteristics as well as other objective and subjective QoL factors, specific to individuals, could form some common patterns, able to disclose the differences in individually perceived QoL in different socio-economic conditions and diverse local places, e.g. cities, towns, or rural areas. The research aims at investigating differences in the patterns of individual subjectively perceived QoL in diverse local places. The differences of the considered local places are reasoned by the indicators of objective socio-economic conditions in cities, towns and rural areas. The tested presumption is that common patterns of individual subjectively perceived QoL differ, respecting objective socio-economic factors in local places. The research concludes with the discovery and discussion of statistical regression models to predict individual subjectively perceived QoL in towns, big cities and rural areas. Residents’ attitude to social environment, their abilities to deal with important problems in life, household total income and age are used as predictors to explain the differences of individual subjectively perceived QoL. The case of Lithuania is being investigated, using European Social Survey (round 6, 2013) data. [From the publication]

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