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Article: Family caregivers of individuals with intellectual disability: perspectives on life quality and the role of vacations.
- Article from:
- Journal of Leisure Research
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Introduction
Quality of life (QOL) is difficult to define, conceptually, and a challenge to measure methodologically (Kovac, 2004; Raphael, 1996; Veenhoven, 2000). Despite these difficulties, contemporary definitions converge on QOL as a socially constructed and multidimensional construct that subsumes a number of related factors (e.g., life satisfaction, happiness) (Schalock, 2000; Schalock, et al., 2002). Leisure, generally, and vacations, specifically, are often identified as positive contributors to, and essential elements of life quality (Gilbert & Abdullah, 2004; Heyne, Schleien, & Rynders, 1997; Mannell & Kleiber, 1997). Within leisure studies, life ...