Social Exclusion and Quality of Life: An Empirical Study from Turkey

Autor/inn/en	Bayram, Nuran; Bilgel, Firat; Bilgel, Nazan Gonul
Titel	Social Exclusion and Quality of Life: An Empirical Study from Turkey
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 105 (2012) 1, S.109-120 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-010-9767-4
Schlagwörter	Poverty; Structural Equation Models; Quality of Life; Physical Health; Measures (Individuals); Social Isolation; Social Influences; Social Life; Environmental Influences; Interpersonal Relationship; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Lebensqualität; Gesundheitszustand; Messdaten; Soziale Isolation; Sozialer Einfluss; Soziales Leben; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Türkei
Abstract	We examine the perception of social exclusion and quality of life and their interactions among a group of Turkish citizens. For this purpose we used the social exclusion scale developed by Jehoel-Gijsbers and Vrooman and the WHOQOL-BREF scale. The study group consists of 2,493 participants who are residents of a city in Turkey. Our study was based on self reporting and voluntary participation. We used SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) for the analysis. We observed significant paths among several dimensions of quality of life and social exclusion. We found that the material deprivation dimension of social exclusion has a direct and negative impact on the environment and social relationships domains of quality of life. The material deprivation dimension explains 36% of the variation in the environment and 16% of the variation in social relationship domains of quality of life. This finding indicates that the material deprivation and social participation play an important role in the perception of environmental and psychological life quality. Physical health, social relationships, and environmental domains of life quality are important in the social participation dimension of perceived social exclusion. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10