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Quality of Life of the Long-Term Unemployed
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Initially, quality of life used to be examined from the perspective of health and illness. Strauss monograph (1975) dealing with the quality of life of the chronically ill and aged people was one of the first studies dealing with this subject. Methodologically, scholars concentrated in particular on the effectiveness of healing methods for patients' quality of life and tried to establish intervention approaches (Bergsma & Engel, 1998; McGee et al., 1991; O Boyle & McGee, 1992; Browne et al., 1994; Browne et al., 1997). It was only later that a broader human life perspective was taken into account when studying the quality of life (Emmons & Diener, 1985; Ryff & Keys, 1995; Oishi, 1999; Dzúrová & Dragomirecká,2000;Hnilica, 2000). It became apparent though that quality of life was not determined solely by a set of identifiable external factors, but also – and substantially – by the individual perception of life’s meaningfulness (Zika & Chamberlain, 1987; Frankl, 1994; Thompson & Janigian, 2000; Halama, 2000; Balcar, 1995c; Machovec, 1967; Šmajs & Krob, 2003). The findings and experience acquired from measuring the quality of life have shown the following: 1. Rather than a system of values set and evaluated externally, an individual's own perception of the priorities concerning quality of life is relevant for evaluating his or her quality of life. 2. Various quality of life dimensions have different levels of importance for every individual. 3. The importance of the quality of life dimensions changes during an individual's life span as a result of his or her going through different stages of life and facing various situations. 4. A personal approach to the quality of life is closely related to expressing satisfaction with achieving goals and fulfilling plans. Our approach derives from the above-mentioned findings as well as from the approach to the quality of life issue by the Irish psychologists O'Boyle, McGee and the Swiss doctor Joyce |
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