Worldwide, policy-makers and planners often overlook the advantages of including subjective indicators in their social imp act assessments. This oversight may be due to lack of knowledge of the role of different types of social indicators in social reporting. Quality of life studies, a subdiscipline of sociology with a forty-year history, has much to offer in the evaluation of social policy. In...

This study examined relationships between and predictors of objective and subjective health measures among 766 individuals aged ≥ 45 years in India using the 2010 pilot wave of the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI). Correlations between and gender differences in objective [grip strength, lung function] and subjective [self-rated health (SRH), dependence in activities of daily living (dAD...

This article analyses a series of negotiations on how to measure welfare and quality of life in Sweden beyond economic indicators. It departs from a 2015 Government Official Report that advanced a strong recommendation to measure only ‘objective indicators’ of quality of life, rather than relying on what is referred to as ‘subjective indicators’ such as life satisfaction and happiness. The asse...

This essay offers an account of the truth conditions of sentences involving deontic modals like ‘ought’, designed to capture the difference between objective and subjective kinds of ‘ought’ This account resembles the classical semantics for deontic logic: according to this account, these truths conditions involve a function from the world of evaluation to a domain of worlds (equivalent to a so-...

Three dimensional user interfaces can help users in time-critical situations to improve their ability to solve problems. But they also may distract them from fulfilling their tasks with efficiency and effectiveness. This requests to control and limit the distraction caused by usage of those interfaces. Therefore it is necessary to measure and compare distraction caused by three dimensional user...