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Wu, Chia-huei; Yao, Grace – Social Indicators Research, 2007
Importance weighting is a common practice in quality of life (QOL) measurement research. Based on the widespread idea that important domains should make a greater contribution to individuals' QOL total score, the weighting procedure of multiplying item satisfaction by an item's importance has been adopted in many QOL instruments. Locke's [1969,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Quality of Life, Foreign Countries
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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