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Can We Weight Satisfaction Score with Importance Ranks across Life Domains?
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Wu, Chia-Huei – Social Indicators Research, 2008
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the utility of importance weighting when importance ranks were considered as the weighting values by (1) examining the range-of-affect hypothesis in the within-subject context and (2) comparing performances of weighted and unweighted satisfaction scores in predicting overall judgment of subjective…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Questionnaires, Social Indicators, Correlation
Do We Need to Weight Satisfaction Scores with Importance Ratings in Measuring Quality of Life?
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Wu, Chia-Huei; Yao, Grace – Social Indicators Research, 2006
Trauer and Mackinnon (2001; Quality of life research 10, pp. 579-585) recently proposed that weighting satisfaction scores by importance ratings in measuring quality of life is undesirable and unnecessary. However, they didn't use empirical data to support their claim. In this study, different weighting algorithms developed by Cummins (1997;…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Life Satisfaction, Weighted Scores, Correlation