Abstract
The study mainly focuses on socio-psychological and socio-demographic determinants of Quality
of Life related to health. The study measures the strength of predictive relationship between the
variables (Self-Efficacy, Sense of Humor and Emotional Intelligence) and also highlights the
relevance and significance of correlation between them. Public sector universities of Lahore were
considered for the research and sample size was restricted to 200 university teachers. The sample
was drawn using Purposive Sampling (a non-probability sampling technique) and both genders
were included in the sample. The study was designed as a cross-sectional survey. The research
tools used to collect data included “General Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (Schwarzer &
Jerusalem,1995)”, “Sense of Humor Questionnaire-6 (Svebak,1996)”, Self-Report Emotional
Intelligence Test (Schutte,1998) “, and “ WHO Quality of Life-BREF(WHO,1996)”. The data
were analyzed using SPSS: version.20 and the results were drawn using inferential statistics i.e.
Linear Regression Analysis, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Independent sample t-test
along with descriptive statistical techniques. The results indicated that a significant relationship
occurred between Self-Efficacy, Sense of Humor and Emotional Intelligence and they strongly
predicted Health Related Quality of Life among university faculty. Results further revealed that
female university teachers scored higher on HRQOL as compared to female university teachers.
Tehziba Kousir, Anum Mohsin, Talat Sohail, Amina Obaid. (2019) Health Related Quality of Life among University Teachers in Relation to Self-Efficacy, Sense of Humor and Emotional Intelligence., Journal of Arts and Social sciences, Volume 6, Issue 2.
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