caa a22 4500 467916926 CHVBK 20180406152905.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-004-3198-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-004-3198-z Liu Li School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, 100875, Beijing, China aut Quality of Life as a Social Representation in China: A Qualitative Study [Elektronische Daten] [Li Liu] This study explores the meaning of quality of life (QOL) in China from the perspective of social representations. The data were collected by open-ended individual interviews with 16 ordinary Chinese people. The study shows that social thinking about QOL in Chinese society is activated in five critical domains of life: health, family, work, social relations and the natural environment. Meanwhile, "having” and "being”, the two antinomic, yet dialogical interdependent, interpretive repertoires, have an overarching generative and normative power over the discourse about QOL. They permeate and underpin the different domains of life. Dominated by an "economic logic”, the "having” repertoire constructs these life domains through a set of economic consequences and posits them as resources leading to material possessions. While dominated by an "existential logic”, the "being” repertoire confesses existential meanings to the same life domains, and emphasises the joy derived from them. Thereby, it infers that QOL as a social representation is generated from, and organised around, a central thema of "having” and "being”. Springer, 2006 Chinese society nationallicence "having” and "being” nationallicence quality of life nationallicence social representation nationallicence thema nationallicence Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 75/2(2006-01-01), 217-240 0303-8300 75:2<217 2006 75 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-004-3198-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-004-3198-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Liu Li School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, 100875, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 75/2(2006-01-01), 217-240 0303-8300 75:2<217 2006 75 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer