… The concept of quality of life is increasingly being used internationally in the … groups
representing five geographical groupings on the importance and use of the 24 core quality of life …

… Psychometric equivalence among measures in different cultures is satisfied when the
psychometric properties of two or more sets of data from two or more cultural groups are essen…

… , however, in re— spect to different groups of people with disabilities depending on the type
… ; therefore I will concentrate on that group of people with mental retardation. Comparing the …

… Cross-cultural Versus Cross-national Measurement Cross-cultural refers to different cultures
within one country or between one cultrual group and another. Crossnational research …

… of different cultures would round out the concept of QoL for that cultural group, so improving
conceptual equivalence and, hence, any comparisons between the different language …

… It also includes 1 facet examining overall quality of life and general health … quality of life
perceptions in different cultures and whether it is structurally comparable in these cultures. …

… Shao (1993) administered our life satisfaction scale to … of well-being concepts across cultures
is an important con… created in diverse communities and administer them in other cultures, …

… recreation, the theory has become widely used to explain the leisure preferences and
behaviour of various other ethnic groups in the United States. Ethnicity theory suggests that …

… this may be reflected in a change in overall HRQoL, whereas in another culture, there may
… in how people from different cultures interpret the expressions “overall quality of life” and “…

… to be a member of a specific culture or ethnic group. This socialization process occurs within
… which one ethnic group assimilates and adapts to another ethnic group or another culture. …