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An aggregated sample of students (n = 3407) from the University of Northern British Columbia covering 7 of the 8 years from 1998 to 2005 is analyzed to show the relative and combined explanatory power of some life domain (e.g., satisfaction with family relations) and university-related variables (e.g., satisfaction with UNBC instructors) on some global quality-of-life variables (e.g., life satisfaction). It was found that, in combination with the life domain variables, the university-related variables added practically nothing to our explanatory power. The most powerful university-related variable was students’ satisfaction with their instructors.
Michalos, A.C., & Orlando, J.A.: 2006. A note on student quality of life. Social Indicators Research, 79, pp. 51–59. © Springer 2006.
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We would like to thank some of the people who reviewed our annual surveys over many of the 8 years covered by this study, and who routinely offered suggestions about items to add, polish or drop. Thanks very much Joan Ross, Susan McIntyre, Rob Van Adrichem, William Zhang and Bruno Zumbo.
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Michalos, A.C., Orlando, J.A. (2017). A Note on Student Quality of Life. In: Connecting the Quality of Life Theory to Health, Well-being and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51161-0_10
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