The good life in rural and urban Senegal: A qualitative and quantitative study

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dc.contributor.authorDuboz, Priscilla
dc.contributor.authorMacia, Enguerran
dc.contributor.authorDiallo, Amadou H.
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-22T03:55:12Z
dc.date.available2023-05-22T03:55:12Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-27
dc.descriptionA qualitative and quantitative study. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0252134. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252134en_US
dc.description.abstractVery few studies have analyzed the influence of the environment, rural or urban, on the notion of good life and subjective well-being in sub-Saharan Africa and none, to our knowledge, has combined qualitative and quantitative methodologies for this purpose. The objectives of this interdisciplinary study were: a) to understand the emic representations of the good life in rural and urban Senegal and; b) to compare the levels and determinants of satisfaction with life between these two populations. This study was carried out in Dakar and in a very isolated rural area in the North East of Senegal: the sylvo-pastoral zone of Ferlo. A total of six focus groups were conducted for the qualitative phase, while the quantitative phase was conducted on representative samples of the populations living in Dakar (N = 1000) and Téssékéré (N = 500). Our results indicate that, against all expectations, life satisfaction is better in the Senegalese Ferlo than in the capital, Dakar. This difference may be the joint result of less meaningful social comparisons and a relationship with nature as a source of stress restoration in rural areas. However, the lifeworld of the rural Fulani of the Ferlo is being undermined by global climatic disturbances, which imposes rapid adaptations of pastoralism; otherwise this activity, that is not only subsistence but also identity-based, may disappearen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipACE : Environment and Health CEA-AGIR, Université Cheikh Anta Diopen_US
dc.identifier.citationDuboz, P., Macia, E., Diallo, A. H., Cohen, E., Bergouignan, A., & Seck, S. M. (2021). The good life in rural and urban Senegal: A qualitative and quantitative study. Plos one, 16(5), e0252134.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252134
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1885
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPLOS ONEen_US
dc.subjectRural areasen_US
dc.subjectUrban environmenten_US
dc.subjectSenegalen_US
dc.subjectQualitative Studiesen_US
dc.subjectTownsen_US
dc.subjectCitiesen_US
dc.subjectHappinessen_US
dc.subjectUrban Areasen_US
dc.subjectCEA-AGIRen_US
dc.subjectEMIG (l’Ecole des Mines, de l’Industrie et de la Géologie)en_US
dc.subjectEmmanuel Cohenen_US
dc.subjectAudrey Bergouignanen_US
dc.subjectSidy M. Secken_US
dc.subjectUniversité Cheikh Anta Diopen_US
dc.titleThe good life in rural and urban Senegal: A qualitative and quantitative studyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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