Impact of Odor Nuisance on Preferred Place of Residence

Context of the research: Research is increasingly carried out to take into account the social behavior of residents, the type of industry located in the area, and perceived preference for the place of residence. The quality of life in urban space is increasingly seen as a problem of cooperation between various stakeholders. These studies not only identify factors and sources of odor emissions, but also serve as the basis for creating systems to alert people living in areas adjacent to industrial areas or harmful and unpleasant industrial emissions. In recent years, environmental issues, particularly unpleasant sensory experiences, have been one of the most important acceptance criteria. Aim of the article: The aim of the study is to assess the impact of odor nuisance in the south-eastern part of Kraków (Płaszów) on the residents’ decision to leave their place of residence. In particular, the research goal was achieved to indicate which of the unpleasant odors may cause a change of residence, as well as to assess the degree of their impact on the decision to move, taking into account the social and demographic characteristics of residents. New in the article: The novelty of the work was the finding out of the residents’ opinions about the quality of life by accepting the place of residence, taking into account the aspect of odor nuisance. Previous studies on odor nuisance have focused on the emission of odors from individual plants. A novelty of this research is its implementation in an urban area, in which numerous industrial plants are located, with various odors emitted. Research methodology: To assess odor nuisance, a measuring tool developed in accordance with VDI 3883 guidelines was used, based on the latest research results on odor and noise nuisance. The questionnaire was developed based on German experience. Conclusions from the research: The data obtained as a result of the research allow us to state that specific smells are so burdensome that they may cause the necessity to leave the place of residence, because the respondents feel various unpleasant smells that have an adverse impact upon the quality of life that they perceive. A possible need for relocation of domiciles out of the current place of residence due to unpleasant smells would affect the perceptible, specific level of grief—the greater it is, the more attached the residents are to their current place of residence.

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The impact of the social network, stigma and empowerment on the quality of life in patients with schizophrenia

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2010.08.010 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 28-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 105

Author(s):

I. Sibitz ◽

M. Amering ◽

A. Unger ◽

M.E. Seyringer ◽

A. Bachmann ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Social Network ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Internalized Stigma ◽

Stigma Reduction ◽

Equation Modelling ◽

The Social ◽

Recovery Approach ◽

The Impact

Abstract:Objective:The quality of life (QOL) of patients with schizophrenia has been found to be positively correlated with the social network and empowerment, and negatively correlated with stigma and depression. However, little is known about the way these variables impact on the QOL. The study aims to test the hypothesis that the social network, stigma and empowerment directly and indirectly by contributing to depression influence the QOL in patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders.Method:Data were collected on demographic and clinical variables, internalized stigma, perceived devaluation and discrimination, empowerment, control convictions, depression and QOL. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was applied to examine the impact of the above-mentioned constructs on QOL.Results:The influences of the social network, stigma, empowerment and depression on QOL were supported by the SEM. A poor social network contributed to a lack of empowerment and stigma, which resulted in depression and, in turn, in poor QOL. Interestingly, however, the social network and stigma did not show a direct effect on QOL.Conclusions:Following a recovery approach in mental health services by focusing on the improvement of the social network, stigma reduction and especially on the development of personal strength has the potential to reduce depression in patients with psychosis and improving their QOL.

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Social and Psychological Effects of Major Craniofacial Deformity

The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal ◽

10.1597/1545-1569_1992_029_0578_sapeom_2.3.co_2 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 29 (6) ◽

pp. 578-584 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Thomas Pruzinsky

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Subjective Evaluation ◽

Psychological Effects ◽

Family Factors ◽

Facial Deformity ◽

Social Stressors ◽

The Social ◽

The Impact ◽

Made In

This paper discusses the social and psychological experiences of patients with the most severe forms of craniofacial deformity. The paper concludes that individuals with the most severe forms of craniofacial deformities are at risk for experiencing social and psychological stress and for having their quality of life negatively impacted by the experience of having a facial deformity. Much of the stress experienced by these individuals is the result of the negative social response to their facial deformity. It is emphasized that many patients will not develop psychopathology, because of intervening personality and family factors that may ameliorate these negative social stressors. The excellent progress made in assessing, preventing, and treating the negative psychosocial impact of facial deformity is noted. Finally, in attempting to understand the impact of facial deformity on quality of life, emphasis is placed on the subjective evaluation of these factors by each individual patient and family.

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Towards a Universal Social Impact Metric for Engineered Products That Alleviate Poverty

Volume 2B: 43rd Design Automation Conference ◽

10.1115/detc2017-67584 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Phillip D. Stevenson ◽

Christopher A. Mattson ◽

Kenneth M. Bryden ◽

Nordica A. MacCarty

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Social Impact ◽

Multidimensional Poverty ◽

Social Impacts ◽

Five Dimensions ◽

Multidimensional Poverty Index ◽

The Social ◽

The Impact

More than ever before, engineers are creating products for developing countries. One of the purposes of these products is to improve the consumer’s quality of life. Currently, there is no established method of measuring the social impact of these types of products. As a result, engineers have used their own metrics to assess their product’s impact, if at all. Some of the common metrics used include products sold and revenue, which measure the financial success of a product without recognizing the social successes or failures it might have. In this paper we introduce a potential metric, the Product Impact Metric (PIM), which quantifies the impact a product has on impoverished individuals — especially those living in developing countries. It measures social impact broadly in five dimensions: health, education, standard of living, employment quality, and security. The PIM is inspired by the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) created by the United Nations Development Programme. The MPI measures how the depth of poverty within a nation changes year after year, and the PIM measures how an individual’s quality of life changes after being affected by an engineered product. The Product Impact Metric can be used to predict social impacts (using personas that represent real individuals) or measure social impacts (using specific data from products introduced into the market).

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Impact of Sport Activity on the Quality of Life of Saudi Woman

Journal of Educational and Social Research ◽

10.36941/jesr-2021-0099 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 343

Author(s):

Huda AbdlAziz Aldegheiry

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Elderly Women ◽

Sport Activity ◽

Saudi Women ◽

The Social ◽

Sport Activities ◽

The Media ◽

Fitness And Health ◽

The Impact

The present research paper aims to identify the impact of sport activity on the quality of life of Saudi women (i.e., fitness and health, social aspects, psychological aspects, moral aspects, and mental aspects). It also aims to develop mechanisms to activate the sport activity to improve the quality of life of Saudi women. The sample consisted of (N= 384) Saudi women in Riyadh. The author applied a questionnaire to collect data. The results showed that sport activity has a high impact on fitness and the psychological and moral aspects and a high to moderate impact on the social and mental aspects of the Saudi woman. The study recommends activating the media role in disseminating sport culture and awareness among (children- teenager- elderly) women by publishing a sport activity supervised-bulletin to cover the sport activities, objectives, programs, as well as time and place of practice. In turn, this could promote positive aspects towards the practice of sport activities. Received: 29 March 2021 / Accepted: 26 May 2021 / Published: 8 July 2021

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Health-Related Quality of Life of Individuals Living In Households with Depression: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Applied Research in Quality of Life ◽

10.1007/s11482-021-10023-x ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Judith Dams ◽

Thomas Grochtdreis ◽

Hans-Helmut König

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Social Environment ◽

Health Related Quality ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

The Social ◽

Related Quality ◽

Health Related ◽

Household Members ◽

The Impact

AbstractDepression contributes to disability more than any other mental disorder and is associated with a reduced health-related quality of life. However, the impact of depression on the social environment is relatively unknown. The current study determined differences in the health-related quality of life between co-living household members of depressed persons and persons in households without depression. Furthermore, factors influencing the health-related quality of life of co-living household members of depressed persons were evaluated. Using a sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel, health-related quality of life was measured longitudinally with the 12 item Short Form health survey. In addition to descriptive statistics, differences in health-related quality of life and factors influencing the health-related quality of life of co-living household members of depressed persons were determined by mixed effects beta regressions. Mental health-related quality of life was reduced for co-living household members of depressed persons compared with persons of households without depressed persons. Health-related quality of life of co-living household members of depressed persons was lower for women compared to men as well as for widowed persons compared to married persons. Overall, the health-related quality of life of co-living household members of depressed persons was reduced, which might be due to increased stress levels. It is therefore important to focus on support services for people in the social environment of depressed persons.

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The impact of haemophilia on the social status and the health‐related quality of life in adult Lebanese persons with haemophilia

Haemophilia ◽

10.1111/hae.13694 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 264-269

Author(s):

Elie Naous ◽

Philippe de Moerloose ◽

Ghassan Sleilaty ◽

Alessandro Casini ◽

Claudia Djambas Khayat

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Social Status ◽

Health Related Quality ◽

The Social ◽

Related Quality ◽

Health Related ◽

The Impact

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The Impact of Retirement on Happiness and Loneliness in Poland—Evidence from Panel Data

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18189875 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (18) ◽

pp. 9875

Author(s):

Anita Abramowska-Kmon ◽

Wojciech Łątkowski

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Panel Data ◽

Fixed Effects ◽

Logistic Models ◽

Subjective Quality ◽

Subjective Quality Of Life ◽

Bridge Employment ◽

The Social ◽

The Impact

This paper examines the impact of retirement on people’s subjective quality of life, as expressed by their levels of happiness and loneliness, in Poland. We analysed five waves of the Social Diagnosis panel survey conducted between 2007 and 2015. To account for unobserved individual heterogeneity, we employed fixed effects ordered logit models and fixed effect logistic models for the panel data. We found that the respondents’ happiness levels did not change after they retired, and that the introduction of interactions between retirement and employment did not alter these findings. However, the results of the loneliness model showed that the probability of being lonely increased among males after retirement. Second, the outcomes of interactions between retirement and employment suggested that not working after retirement increased the likelihood of being lonely among men, whereas engaging in bridge employment decreased the chances of being lonely among men. These findings may indicate that combining retirement with employment may be a source of social interaction, which can provide protection against loneliness, and which may, in turn, be positively related to other factors (i.e., subjective quality of life, health status, and mortality).

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El papel de la arquitectura ante los problemas de calidad de vida de la población víctima del conflicto armado colombiano

Revista Encuentros ◽

10.15665/encuent.v18i01.2156 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (01) ◽

Author(s):

Erika Tatiana Ayala-Garcia ◽

César Augusto Hernandez-Suarez ◽

Rutsara Ayala-Santos

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Armed Conflict ◽

Social Economic ◽

Internal Armed Conflict ◽

Calidad De Vida ◽

Post Conflict ◽

Buena Vista ◽

The Social ◽

The Impact

This investigation of the Buena Vista II neighborhood of Villa del Rosario-Norte de Santander, characterized by its displaced population victim of the Colombian internal armed conflict. It is developed from a documentary approach that contextualizes the consequences of the conflict and conceptually defines quality of life. It presents a mixed methodology; qualitative, which recognizes the dynamics and conditions of habitability and; quantitative, which performs a population characterization from the social, economic and environmental dimensions that identifies the quality of life needs of the inhabitants. This research allows us to establish the impact of architecture on the quality of life of the populations victims of the Colombian armed conflict, as an element that determines repair and rehabilitation processes in the context of the post-conflict.

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CONSERVATION OF HISTORIC WATERFRONT TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN OLD DHAKA

International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAR ◽

10.26687/archnet-ijar.v11i2.1170 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 83 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mohammed Mahbubur Rahman ◽

Sharif Shams Imon

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Community Involvement ◽

Social Life ◽

Study Approach ◽

The Social ◽

Political Forces ◽

The Impact ◽

Historic Landscape

Liveability of a city is related to the quality of life (QOL) assessed by the impact of the quality of physical environment on liveability and the role of recreation in psychological wellbeing of individuals. Like in major Asian cities, the historic waterfront and architectural heritage of Dhaka are important components of the fabric. Despite diminution, it continues to affect the social life of Old Dhaka residents. In recent years, protection of the waterfront from illegal encroachment and pollution has become a major concern, amidst a lack of understanding of the river’s role in improving the QOL of the waterfront residents and the role of community involvement. By comparing waterfronts in similar contexts and through literature review and observations, the authors investigate how the conservation of the historic waterfront can contribute to the improvement of quality of life in Old Dhaka, and suggest ways to protect the riverfront with this objective. Seeing waterfronts as products of human intervention into nature, this paper discusses the socio-political forces that shape this, and investigates how conservation of the historic landscape can improve the QOL of the nearby residents. It uses a case study approach based on documentary research, unstructured and nonparticipant observations, and interviews with community leaders, environmental activists and local bodies.

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