MULTIDIMENZIONÁLNY MODEL SUBJEKTÍVNE HODNOTENEJ KVALITY ŽIVOTA - VÝSLEDKY PREDVÝSKUMU.

At present there can be identified three different approaches to the conceptualization of QoL (Dijkers, 2005): quality of life as subjective well-being, quality of life as achievement, and quality of life as utility. In light of further research, the paper considers the identification of quality of life with subjective well-being as restrictive, and proposes a multidimensional model of significant areas of quality of life which falls within its conceptualization as achievement, i.e. as what a person has already achieved or has been achieving. Six theoretically postulated areas of quality of life, viz. psychological, physical, social, environmental, cognitive and spiritual, are operationalized through 36 items to which respondents offered simultaneous two types of responses whereby they assessed individual areas using the 'good-bad' (quality) and 'satisfied - dissatisfied' (satisfaction) response scales respectively. On the sample of 93 adolescents, and with the use of factor analysis, three areas, instead of six, of theoretically postulated significant areas of quality of life were identified, viz. psycho-social, cognitive-spiritual and environmental. Reactions to identical items, in the case of 7 out of 14 items, which represented three extracted factors, differed significantly: the assessment using the 'good-bad' scale and that using the 'satisfied - dissatisfied' scale produces in the case of 50% of items responses with statistically significant difference in variation. Our ensuing research will attempt to verify the factor structure on other items and the assumption that the assessment using the quality scale is more appropriate than that using the satisfaction scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]