La calidad de vida en adultos jóvenes mediante Redes Semánticas Naturales Modificadas

The objective of this research was to know the meaning of quality of life for young adults. To do so, 100 people (50% men and 50% women) from 18 to 35 years of age, residents of Mexico City participated. The technique of Modified Natural Semantic Networks (Reyes-Lagunes, 1993) was applied to obtain: Network Size (TR), Semantic Weight (PS), Network Nucleus (NR), Quantitative Semantic Distance (DSC) and Index of Group Consensus (ICG). The results indicated that health was considerably the best defining variable of the quality of life. When analyzing the defining factors that appear in the nuclei of the networks, it can be noted that they are congruent with the dimensions of physical health, psychological health, interpersonal relationships and available material resources proposed by Skevington, Lotfy and O'Connell (2004). This turns out to be useful in the construction of a culturally relevant quality of life scale