Abstract
In Bandung, Indonesia, urban expansion, rapid economic growth, and population increase present enormous challenges to the maintenance of a high quality of life (QOL) for its citizens. Moreover, income distribution in the city has become more unequal, thereby threatening social cohesion. Such situations led us to investigate the states and correlation of social cohesion and QOL in Bandung. In 2018, we conducted a questionnaire survey of social cohesion and QOL using 13 and 18 question items, respectively. We employed the Rasch model analysis to analyze the logit measures of 752 responses. The results revealed that the population of Bandung has high social cohesion and decent QOL. Our findings suggest that in Bandung QOL is significantly correlated with social cohesion, therefore strategies that seek to enhance social cohesion may be beneficial to improve the QOL.
Highlights
Various terminologies, such as quality of life (QOL), well-being, happiness, and health, are used to indicate how well human lives are doing [1,2,3]
The results revealed that the population of Bandung has high social cohesion and decent QOL
Results from this study demonstrate that the population of Bandung has high social cohesion, given that the mean (0.87) falls within the high social cohesion group and none of the respondents are categorized in the low social cohesion group
Summary
Various terminologies, such as quality of life (QOL), well-being, happiness, and health, are used to indicate how well human lives are doing [1,2,3]. More cohesive societies invest more in public services such as education, social welfare, and health services, narrowing health and education inequalities and reducing unequal access to health and education services [6, 9]. These social circumstances are important factors that improve QOL [10].
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