Exploring links between the concepts of Quality of Life and resilience.
This paper explores links between the concepts of Quality of Life (QoL) and resilience. First, the definitions of QoL and resilience are explored separately, emphasizing that both concepts have been criticized for a lack of theory with resulting problems in description, prediction and measurement. The similarities and differences are then considered between these two related psychological concepts-resilience and QoL. The need is identified for establishing a theoretical model of QoL, and how elements from resilience research can be beneficially integrated within such a model is discussed. Further empirical work is needed to explore explicitly the relationship between these two related psychological concepts, and establish how well resilience can help explain individual variation in QoL reports in young children.
Lawford
J
J
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, UK. j.lawford@sheffield.ac.uk
Eiser
C
C
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D019988:Children with Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011788:Quality of Life