1. Seminar 5 Jaroslav Biolek Quality of life

2. Homework Choose a meta-concept of quality of life (model, construct…) and contextualize your quality of life inside this concept (just prepare a speech) Liveability, health, well-being, environmental quality, happiness, satisfaction… Choose the subjective or the objective dimension and describe the other through the first one e.g. your subjective dimension through livability or environmental quality

3. Objective x subjective dimension Do both dimensions really exist? Or is it only construct? What is the relation between them? Are they (in)dependent on each other? Is it possible to apply one holistic approach to conceptualize both dimensions of quality of life? What is the role of our senses and our perception?

5. QoL – human needs Basic needs and capabilities (food, water, health, housing, environment, security) – avoidance of pain Autonomy of agency Subjective well-being (from satisfaction, positive emotions to personal growth, fulfilling of desires) Flourishing (self-respect, love, deep personal relations) Social inclusion, integration?

6. 3 cases of bad quality of life „green widow“ – woman who lives in a suburb, she spends a lot of time alone, she is usually bored, she suffers from depression… „gipsy man“ – he lives in ghetto, he has a big family, but his brother owes a lot of money and he wants him to help, so now he has problems with a police (he stole something) „middle-class woman“ – she is about 50 years old, she has boring job, her children work abroad, she is divorced and now she does not like men, although she has friends, she is not satisfied (she goes shopping with them, but she has nothing to talk with them)

7. Psychological well-beingSocial well-being Self-acceptance Personal growth Purpose in life Environmental mastery Autonomy Positive relations with others Social acceptance Social actualization Social contribution Social coherence Social integration

8. Where is the problem located? Human needs, values, expectation… Hedonia x eudaimonia Economic x psychological and social well-being Individual x collective quality of life

9. 5th homework Think of the dimensions of quality of life What are the important ones? Which domains shape your life the most? Follow the interactive syllabus and fulfil the ROPOT Answer on the questions about the multidimensionality of quality of life