![]() ![]() Such and other systems and scales of measurement have been in use for some time. Researchers have begun in recent times to distinguish two aspects of personal well-being: Emotional well-being, in which respondents are asked about the quality of their everyday emotional experiences – the frequency and intensity of their experiences of, for example, joy, stress, sadness, anger, and affection – and life evaluation, in which respondents are asked to think about their life in general and evaluate it against a scale. Unlike per capita GDP or standard of living, both of which can be measured in financial terms, it is harder to make objective or long-term measurements of the quality of life experienced by nations or other groups of people. ![]() Also sometimes considered related is the concept of human security, though the latter may be considered at a more basic level and for all people. As a result, standard of living should not be taken to be a measure of happiness. It has also been shown that happiness, as much as it can be measured, does not necessarily increase correspondingly with the comfort that results from increasing income. However, since happiness is subjective and difficult to measure, other measures are generally given priority. Under this conception, other frequently related concepts include freedom, human rights, and happiness. In the domain of culture, for example, it includes the following subdomains of quality of life: One approach, called engaged theory, outlined in the journal of Applied Research in the Quality of Life, posits four domains in assessing quality of life: ecology, economics, politics and culture. ![]()
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