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Quality of life measurements conflate objective functioning with subjective wellbeing, and their validity is frequently compromised by extraneous psychological factors and response shifts over time.
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May warrant cautious QoL interpretation in practice; challenges consensus and leaves open refined measurement tools.
This paper provides a conceptual framework for understanding health-related quality of life, distinguishing between objective functioning and subjective wellbeing to improve future measurement methodologies.
Muldoon et al. (1998) conducted a review in Quality of life. Quality of life measurements conflate objective functioning with subjective wellbeing, and their validity is frequently compromised by extraneous psychological factors and response shifts over time.
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