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SUMMARY:What matters for well-being: Quality of life over the life course 
 - Dr Anke Plagnol
DTSTART:20100309T131000Z
DTEND:20100309T140000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Hilary Powell
DESCRIPTION:People's subjective evaluations of their well-being change ove
 r the\nlife course and are often associated with changes in their life\nci
 rcumstances. Studies have shown that while people\, often quickly\,\nadapt
  to changes in income\, events in other domains of life -- such as family 
 and health -- tend to have a more long-term impact on their well-being. In
  this talk I will discuss how\, on average\, well-being changes over the l
 ife course. The presentation will not only focus on how individuals evalua
 te their well-being but also on how they conceptualize what matters for th
 eir well-being. An analysis of\nperceptions of what matters for quality of
  life (QoL) in a large-scale\nlongitudinal dataset - the British Household
  Panel Survey - indicates that concepts of well-being change over the life
  course and differ between men and women. Changes in perceptions of QoL ar
 e related to important life events\, such as the birth of a first child an
 d retirement. While some changes in priorities of what matters for QoL are
  stable\, others disappear more than five years after the life event.
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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