A study on the Quality of life in urban families

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 1985;23(3):149-167.

논문편 : 도시 가정의 생활의 질에 관한 연구

문숙재 , 정은숙

A study on the Quality of life in urban families

Sook Jae Moon , Eun Sook Jeong

ABSTRACT

This paper aims at measuring the quality of life in the context of social well being. To meet this purpose, several objective and subjective indicators of the quality of life were selected them the recent theoretical studies in thisfield. Then, a zuestionnaire survey was made on random sampled urban failies to find out the relationship among the two sets of indicators and the quality of family life. The data obtained from the survey were analyzed using Pearson's correlation analysis, multiple regression methods and One-way ANOVA. RESULTS : 1. The quality of life of the high-income earners is higher than that of the low-income earners. 2. The quality of life tends to be high in the family with spouse'high educational background. 3. The degree of coctribution of the objective and subjective indicator to the quality of life was very high. 4. The objective indicator and the subjective indicator concerning the quality of life was closely related.