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Ways that Social Change Predicts Personal Quality of Life

“…Controlling for prior quality of life is to eliminate the risk of the influence of quality of life on perceptions about societal and work conditions and highlight the (residualized) change in quality of life. The risk arises when one's quality of life can elevate perceived societal quality of life (Brooks and Prysby 1999;Niemi et al 1999). Besides, one's life satisfaction may affect job satisfaction and vice versa (Iverson and Maguire 2000;Keon and McDonald 1982).…”

“…All these evaluations or perceptions are in turn subject to the influence of acquiescence, which is the tendency of high rating (Esser 1993;Kryson 1998), as well as background characteristics. Notably, societal quality of life perceived may be contingent on one's sex (Mutz 1998;Niemi et al 1999), age (Niemi et al 1999), education (Brooks and Prysby 1999), income (Mutz 1998;Niemi et al 1999), and social class (Andersen 1999). Quality of work life may also differ according to one's sex ( van Emmerik 2004), age (Lambert et al 2006), education (Long 2005), income (Bygren 2004), rank or social class (Kiyak and Namazin 1999), and being married (Long 2005).…”

“…As such, social change is an individual-difference variable, which depends on personal experience. Similarly, societal quality of life, job change, quality of work life, and quality of life all rely on the person's experience (Brooks and Prysby 1999;Helliwell 2003). Accordingly, quality of life refers to one's evaluation of conditions in life.…”