FORMULATION OF A THE ORETICAL MODEL OF QUALITY OF LIFE FROM PSYCHOLOGY

The present article is a modest theoretical contribution to the study of the quality of life over the life cycle span,with emphasis on the older adult. The collective writing is the result of debates which took place during the twoyears of the social practice project Quality of Life and Life Cycle Span carried out at the Psychology Faculty ofthe Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, which had as one of its objectives the investigation of the psychologicaldimension of the quality of life. The teamwork consisted in the compilation of some theoretical fundamentals ofthe process, after which a model is formulated proposing the dynamic integration of the dimensions, especially thepsychological, which affect the quality of life.