Frantisek Murgas

• RNDr., PhD.
• Professor Emeritus at Technical University of Liberec

Inspired by the well-known Easterlin paradox stating that higher income over time does not lead to a higher level of happiness, this study explores the impact of self-reported income (affluence) on the quality of life in Slovakia at two levels - national and regional. We innovatively use data from the World Value Survey on respondents’ subjective s...

One of the urgent problems of humanity is global warming. The paper focuses on the Karakalpakstan Republic adjacent to the Aral Sea. Its drying up caused by human activity has significantly contributed to the emergence of extreme climatic conditions that are also manifested in neighbouring countries. The region characterized by extreme continentali...

This paper explores the relationship between the two closely related phenomena of health and quality of life. Health has a physical and mental form, mental diseases are divided into several groups: a) no mental diseases, b) anxiety and depression and c) suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts. The paper is focused on the mental health of university...

According to the prevailing opinion, social capital is one of the most robust indicators of quality of life (QoL). We ask whether this insight applies to Slovakia, as well, on the basis of understanding social capital not as one holistic concept but as a set of interrelated components, which are trust, networks, and norms. The paper has two goals,...

The geographical perspective on quality of life issues is primarily based on the study of human-environment interaction, which seems to be the key to quality of life research. This, together with the assumption that quality of life is primarily related to people and to a specific space (as the environment of human existence) and shows obvious manif...

Quality of life measures how happy someone is with their life based on what they think a good life is. Quality of life is dependent on where one stays, which can be at the micro-level (village, small town, city quarter), the meso-level (big city, urban agglomeration, district, region), or the macro-level (state, continent). The study aims to quanti...

The paper is focused on the third wave of the pandemic and its comparison with the first wave in terms of the quality of life of university students in Czechia. In the first wave, the society came together, with solidarity being a prominent manifestation. The third wave differed from the first one in medical (vaccination was already available) as w...

The paper is focused on the spatial differentiation of the quality of life at a district level, drawing data from the World Value Survey Round 7 (2017–2022). Spatial quality of life research in the traditional sense is based on the premise that quality of life is experienced by the individual in a physical geographical space, and therefore the rese...

Aim. The aim of the article is to look for an answer to the question of whether it is worthwhile to deal only with happiness and to leave the exploration of quality of life as something which is not viable, or if it makes sense to deal with both phenomena. If so, what is the relationship between them? At the same time, we ask ourselves whether happ...

Geography of well-being: Czech experience The geography of well-being is based on the knowledge that this concept has a spatial dimension and on the knowledge that well-being is not interchangeable with quality of life or happiness. Creating a well-being epistemology is challenging not only because of the prevailing terminological chaos but also fo...

In the paper, we understand social capital as a variable that affects the quality of life. A variable whose change affects another variable is called a predictor. The paper is based on Putnam’s understanding of social capital with the dimensions of trust, norms and networks. Trust is considered the most important dimension, and for the purposes of...

The examination of the relationship between the construct of urban space and the construct of the quality of urban life is based on the knowledge that their common element is real physical space, i.e., the place. If the examination of the relationship between the two constructs is to be meaningful, then both must be on the same comparative basis—th...

The unprecedented growth of prosperity in developed countries, including the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, interrupted by the economic crisis in 2008–2009, came to a halt at the beginning of 2020. This was due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 respiratory disease pandemic, for which no cure was known in June 2020. The response of governmen...

GEOGRAFICKÝ ČASOPIS / GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL 72 (2020) 3, 261-274 QUALITY OF LIFE AND QUALITY OF ENVIRONMENT IN CZECHIA IN THE PERIOD OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC František Murgaš, František Petrovič Abstract The paper is aimed at the impact of COVID-19 on the quality of living and environment in Czechia. The pandemic has affected almost all countries w...

In current research on quality of life, the emphasis is on satisfaction with life that is called well-being. At the same time, many authors reject Easterlin’s paradox, which was associated with the boom in exploring the quality of life in the 1960s and1970s in the twentieth century of modern history. In the article we understand the quality of life...

Sustainability is part of the scientific mainstream; in the following paper we connect it with the phenomenon of happiness, which is becoming a discussed concept not only among researchers but also amongst public. This is due to the fact that today’s society has become a consumer society. This knowledge has provoked criticism of the prevailing life...

Abstract In the article we focused on incorporating sustainability into the concept of quality of life in response to the current accelerating environmental problems. Quality of life is understood holistically as a link between the personal or subjective dimension with a geographic dimension or objective, expressed in terms of quality of place. Two...

Can Easterlin's paradox be applied to the development of satisfaction with life or does the explanation lie in cultural geographical characteristics? This paper is focused on the development of satisfaction with life, as declared by the inha-bitants of the Czech Republic in a long-term (2003 - 2015) and continuous questionnaire survey. In order to...

Kvalita života je chápaná ako dobrý život prežívaný na dobrom mieste. Dobré miesto je to miesto, ktoré je dobré pre prežívanie dobrého života v zmysle fyzickom i sociálnom. V sociálnom zmysle dobré miesto je také miesto v ktorom ľudia žijú v dobrej spoločnosti. Na dobrú spoločnosť žijúcu na dobrom mieste sa sústreďuje pozornosť priestorovej socioló...

Quality of life research responds to the growth of urbanization in the world by increasing the focus on the quality of urban life; however, the dominant applied research tends to be without conceptualization of the quality of urban life. The aim of this paper is to answer the question whether the quality of urban life exists as an original, separat...

Community well-being is an umbrella term for different ways of describing community development. The combination of words community and well-being is a result of the application of the psychological term well-being to territorial planning, or generally, to a geographical context. This paper includes an analysis of the concept of well-being in its o...

The conceptualization of quality of life in terms of geography is based on two assumptions. The first assumption is that the quality of life consists of two dimensions: subjective and objective. The subjective is known as ‘well-being’, while the objective is the proposed term ‘quality of place’. The second assumption is based on the recognition tha...

An important methodological question in the general discourses concerning the quality of life is scale and mutual relationship of its two dimensions. In this article, the subjective dimension is understood as well-being; data from its spatial differentiation in districts of the Czech Republic were obtained from a face-to-face interview. The objecti...

Quality of life is associated with the term good life; when we evaluate the quality of life, we evaluate how good it is. The central element of the objective (spatial) dimension of quality of life is the phenomenon of a good place as a place in which there is lived a good life to a varying degree. The paper aims to calculate the index of quality of...

The concept of quality of life is the expression of an effort of society to grasp and explain current social and economic reality. It concerns every person as well as society, at which point it is societal quality of life. While for man, quality of life is associated with the concepts of a good life and a good place; societal quality of life is ass...

There is a dilemma to be answered: either has creativity an intrinsic value of its own or it represents but a mean to reach specific end. The axiology of creativity can contribute to solve the problem. The value as such has normative basis based on social imperative “ought to”. Twofold axiology (intern and social) stands sometimes in conflict becau...

Kvalita života jako náhrada obecné míry socio-ekonomického rozvoje v podobě HDP Quality of life as a substitute for the general rate of socioeconomic development in terms of GDP František Murgaš Abstrakt: Soudobá ekonomická a finanční krize si žádá naléhavou odpověď na otázku, jak měřit socio-ekonomický rozvoj v současném období pozdní moderny. Eko...

Quality of life is one of the current concepts, striving to seize and explain the complexity of the current social and economic reality. It is associated with the notion of good life. An important part of this concept is measuring. The number of used indicators in individual measurements reaches tens, which reduces the possibility of mutual compari...

One of the directions in research of quality of life is examining the impact of economic growth on quality of life, which presents a fundamental axiological change in quality of life if this correlation is positive. In the classical approach, based on Easterlin´s paradox, there is no correlation between economic growth, manifested by the growth in...

Quality of life is one of the current concepts, striving to seize and explain the complexity of the current social and economic reality. It is associated with the notion of good life. An important part of this concept is measuring. The number of used indicators in individual measurements reaches tens, which reduces the possibility of mutual compari...

Economic growth has brought prosperity to the Western society; however, it has not brought increase in life satisfaction. This statement known as the Easterlin paradox resulted in the 60s in formulation of the concept of quality of life. This has become one of the current concepts seeking to seize and explain the complexity of social reality. It co...

The concept of quality of life is based on the recognition that growth brings prosperity increase life satisfaction. An important finding is that it can grow, it can only get better or get worse. Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethic quality of life divided into eudaimonic and hedonistic. In the environmental context, the perception of quality comes to th...

Tematika výzkumu kvality života je velmi rozsáhlá a asi i proto stále ještě nedostatečně vymezená.

Abstrakt: Vývoj studia kvality života pokračuje kromě studia " tradičních " témat také rozvíjením témat nových, kterými jsou nejen studium kvality života v jeho různých etapách nebo rodových rozdílů, ale i studium kvality urbánního života. Tento rozměr kvality života je zaměřen na jeden z klíčových prvků současného světa, kterým je město. Zároveň p...

Zařazeno do databáze Thomson Reuters, Conference Proceeding Citation Index, Web of Knowledge. Přístup on-line http://www.utok.cz/node/117. RECREATION AND NATURE CONSERVATION AS PART OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE CONCEPT By: Murgas, Frantisek; Hermanova, Eva Edited by: Fialova, J; Kubickova, H Conference: Conference on Public Recreation and Landscape Pro...

Zařazeno do databáze Thomson Reuters, Conference Proceeding Citation Index, Web of Knowledge. Přístup on-line http://www.utok.cz/node/117. The paper describes the concept of quality of life as one of the key concepts of contemporary social and economic development. Its aim is to analyze recreation and nature conservation as vital parts of quality...

Calculation of creativity index is a part of a modern quantification wave, in some cases also formulation of the spatial differentiation of social and economic phenomena required from the academic sphere by the decisive sphere. Policy makers have interest by this means to help themselves in obtaining public for their objectives. The creative capita...

The paper briefly introduces the notion of creativity, linking the concepts of creative class and the related creative economy that are considered by Florida (2002) and his followers as the driving force of the current social and economic development. The concept of creative economy and its quantification in form of the Creative Class Index 3T or t...

The paper briefly introduces the notion of creativity, linking the concepts of creative class and the related creative economy that are considered by Florida (2002) and his followers as the driving force of the current social and economic development. The concept of creative economy and its quantification in form of the Creative Class Index 3T or t...

Calculation of creativity index is a part of a modern quantification wave, in some cases also formulation of the spatial differentiation of social and economic phenomena required from the academic sphere by the decisive sphere. Policy makers have interest by this means to help themselves in obtaining public for their objectives. The creative capita...

Th e very beginnings upon the quality of life lead to antique period. In modern times society of the West began to deal with it in 60'-s aft er revelation that the wealth-growth did not correspond with the growth of contentment of life at all. One observes its study as a sequence, in which the key-elements are interpretation and defi nition. Th e q...

The aim of the study is to comprehend the quality of life, to identify its substance, and the factors controlling it along with the task of geography in such study. By means of a set of indicators, which were aggregated into the quality of life index, an answer to the question how is the quality of life spatially differentiated in individual distri...

The aim of the study is to comprehend the quality of life, to identify its substance, and the factors controlling it along with the task of geography in such study. By means of a set of indicators, which were aggregated into the quality of life index, an answer to the question how is the quality of life spatially differentiated in individual distri...

Príspevok sa zaoberá životom, resp. dobrým životom z aspektu hypotézy, formulovanej v roku 1994 Josefom Vavrouškom, zakladateľom Spoločnosti pre trvalo udržateľný život. Ten analyzoval postoj prevládajúcej formy euro-americkej civilizácie k rozhodujúcim aspektom ľudského života, pričom ako odpoveď naň navrhoval návrat k hodnotám grécko-rímsko-židov...

Príspevok sa zaoberá kvalitou života v jej postmodernom a ne-postmodernom chápaní, pričom ich hodnotí z axiologického aspektu. Výsledkom je návrh indikátorov, reflektujúcich zmysel kvality života.