The Pertanika Journal of Quality of Life Studies (JQoLS) welcomes research across a wide range of fields that contribute to understanding quality of life, well-being, and the conditions that shape human, community, and societal life. The areas below are illustrative rather than exhaustive.

1. Quality of Life, Well-being, and Human Experience: life satisfaction, happiness, meaning, resilience, flourishing, subjective well-being, quality-of-life indicators, measurement, and cross-cultural studies.

2. Family, Community, and Social Life: family well-being, intergenerational relationships, caregiving, household life, community participation, social support, belonging, trust, equity, and inclusion.

3. Education, Learning, and Human Development: student well-being, academic life, educational access, lifelong learning, digital learning, skills development, and learning environments.

4. Work, Economy, and Living Conditions: employment, job satisfaction, work-life balance, income, poverty, inequality, financial security, livelihoods, welfare, and policy interventions affecting life quality.

5. Health, Care, Ageing, and Disability: health-related quality of life, public health, mental health, ageing, disability, accessibility, caregiving, chronic illness, healthcare access, and patient experience.

6. Environment, Sustainability, and Liveability: urban and rural liveability, housing, neighbourhoods, public spaces, environmental quality, climate change, disaster resilience, sustainable cities, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

7. Technology, Media, and Digital Life: digital well-being, social media, digital inclusion, online learning, hybrid work, smart cities, digital health, artificial intelligence, and technology use in everyday life.

8. Governance, Policy, Rights, and Social Development: public policy, governance, trust, welfare, social protection, poverty reduction, rights, social justice, service delivery, programme evaluation, and development policy.

9. Culture, Religion, Values, and Meaning: culture, values, identity, religion, spirituality, coping practices, indigenous knowledge, cultural participation, tradition, modernity, and changing life conditions.

10. Leisure, Tourism, Sport, and Lifestyle: leisure, recreation, tourism, physical activity, sport participation, parks, public spaces, lifestyle practices, sustainable tourism, and health-related quality of life.

11. Measurement, Methods, and Knowledge Development: indicators, indices, scales, survey research, qualitative and mixed-methods approaches, comparative and longitudinal research, reviews, policy evaluation, impact assessment, data, dashboards, and emerging methods.

JQoLS welcomes manuscripts that address quality of life or well-being directly, as well as manuscripts that examine broader issues with clear relevance to human experience, life conditions, community life, social outcomes, sustainability, policy, or societal development. A manuscript does not need to adopt a specialised quality-of-life framework, but authors should clearly explain how the work contributes to understanding quality of life, well-being, or related outcomes.

The areas listed here are a general guide and do not limit the range of topics that may be considered by the journal. Final suitability is determined by the Editor-in-Chief and editorial team.