Quality of Life in University Governance of the Sustainable Development Goals
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https://doi.org/10.22399/ijnasen.24Keywords:
Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Quality of Life, University Governance, Factor Model, SDGs, Sustainable DevelopmentAbstract
The relationship between quality of life and university governance has been close, but only in those areas where a correlation between the two categories prevails. Within the framework of implementing the SDGs in universities, quality of life is considered an indicator. Therefore, the objective of this work was to establish a model to analyze the relationship between the categories. A cross-sectional, psychometric, and confirmatory study was conducted with a sample of 100 students selected for their affiliation with universities committed to implementing the SDGs. Four of the six dimensions of quality of life reported in the literature were confirmed. In relation to the state of the art, where the link between the categories is highlighted, this work corroborates this relationship and recommends extending the sample to confirm the two pending factors.
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