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Quality of life in the rural setting is a multifaceted phenomenon determined by the cumulative and interactive impacts of numerous and varied factors like housing conditions, infrastructure, access to various amenities, income, standard of living, satisfaction about the physical and social environment (Phillips, 2006).The present study is an attempt to examine the factors affecting quality of life of rural population. Two hundred forty villagers belonging to various categories from Ballia district of eastern U.P. were subjected to measure of quality of life. Results revealed that the factors such as number of earning member in the family, level of education, land holding, level of ecological change and age of the villagers emerged as significant predictors of quality of life. The implications of the findings have been discussed.
Keywords: quality of life, villagers
Human beings have a basic desire to pursue for a long and good life. The term quality of life (QOL) is used to evaluate the general wellbeing of individuals and societies. The term is used in a wide range of contexts, including the fields of international development, healthcare, and politics. Quality of life should not be confused with the concept of standard of living, which is based primarily on income. Instead, standard indicators of the quality of life include not only wealth and employment, but also the built environment, physical and mental health, education, recreation and leisure time, and social belonging Gregory, Derek; Johnston, Ron; Pratt, Geraldine (2009).Quality of Life (QOL) has long been an explicit or implicit policy goal; adequate definition and measurement have been elusive. Diverse "objective" and "subjective" indicators across a range of disciplines and scales, and recent work on subjective wellbeing (SWB) surveys and the psychology of happiness have spurred renewed interest Costanza, R. (2008).Also frequently related are concepts such as freedom, human rights, and happiness. However, since happiness is subjective and hard to measure, other measures are generally given priority. 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. As a result, standard of living should not be taken to be a measure of happiness (Gregory, Derek, Johnston, Ron, Pratt &Geraldine (2009).
Quality of life in the rural setting is...