The level of system's closeness as a factor of life quality experiencing
The objective of the article is the comparison of structures of subjective life quality of persons whose main life activity for a long time was determined by the level of society closeness. Based on the results of previous researches we hypothesized that the level of society closeness determines kind and strength of correlation between satisfaction with life and subjective life quality. Subjective life quality (SLQ) we understand as subjective level of person life values' achievement. SLQ reflects the level of life potential realization that is ability for productive life activity. The authors proposed operational definition for subjective life quality concept, defining it as the degree of correspondence between assessments of real and desired (ideal) person's quality of life. Correctional facilities, system of education of students in the Academy of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, ocean navigations and shift work at utmost North are considered as closed systems with different levels of closeness; maximum-security institutions are ascribed to completely closed systems. The hypothesis about the influence of system's level of closeness on the structure of personal values, subjective life quality and satisfaction with life has been confirmed. Positive correlations between subjective life quality and satisfaction with their own lives have been revealed in open systems, in other words it means that significant for respondents values are realized in their lives. Discontinuity in correlations between subjective life quality and satisfaction with life indicates the fault in respondent's value structure; negative correlations reflect impossibility to realize significant for respondents values. Data statistical analysis reveals that convicts have the lowest index of subjective life quality and at the same time, they have the highest level of life satisfaction, that is correlation not only breaks off but even becomes reverse. Satisfaction with life correlates positively with ideal values, in other words it means that prisoners live up to ideal values but not real life. It was found that different values, different subjective life quality and therefore - person's life potential are significant for people from different systems. Satisfaction can be an index of system's closeness only in combination with subjective life quality.