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A Weighted Multidimensional Index of Child Well-Being Which Incorporates Children’s Individual Perceptions

Fernandes, Liliana; Mendes, Américo; Teixeira, Aurora - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 3, pp. 803-829

It has been a decade since a landmark piece of work on child well-being measurement based on a summary index was …

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Self-Reported Capabilities Among Young Male Adults in Switzerland: Translation and Psychometric Evaluation of a German, French and Italian Version of a Closed Survey Instrument

Hofmann, Karen; Schori, Dominik; Abel, Thomas - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 2, pp. 723-738

global summary item on overall capabilities represents a measurement alternative to the set of seven domain specific …

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The Satisfaction with Sex Life Across the Adult Life Span

Neto, Félix; Pinto, Maria da Conceição - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 3, pp. 767-784

Three separate issues concerning the relation between age and satisfaction with sex life are addressed in this article. The first issue was concerned with the age generalizability of the factor structure produced by responses to the Satisfaction with Sex Life Scale (SWSLS). The second issue was...

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The Subjective Happiness Scale: Translation and Preliminary Psychometric Evaluation of a Spanish Version

Extremera, Natalio; Fernández-Berrocal, Pablo - In: Social Indicators Research 119 (2014) 1, pp. 473-481

The aim of the present study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Subjective Happiness Scale (Lyubomirsky and Lepper in Soc Indic Res 46:137–155, <CitationRef CitationID="CR13">1999</CitationRef>) in a wide sample of 1,155 participants (448 men, 707 women) from three different groups (high school...</citationref>

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Factor Structure and Convergent Validity of the Long and Abbreviated Versions of the Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale in an Italian Sample

Zappulla, Carla; Pace, Ugo; Cascio, Valentina; Guzzo, … - In: Social Indicators Research 118 (2014) 1, pp. 57-69

We examined the psychometric characteristics of the long and abbreviated versions of the Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS) in the Italian contexts. In study 1 we assessed the factorial validity and reliability of the long and abbreviated versions of the MSLSS among...

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On the Measurement of Interpersonal Trust Transfer: Proposal of Indexes

Delgado-Márquez, Blanca; Hurtado-Torres, Nuria; … - In: Social Indicators Research 113 (2013) 1, pp. 433-449

This paper investigates the measurement of trust transfer in interpersonal contexts. Despite the importance of this … topic, little evidence of comparable indicators exists to fill the current gap in knowledge regarding the measurement of … experimental setting for analyzing trust (i.e. a trust game) and build two indexes for the measurement of trust transfer and its …

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From Discrete 1 to 10 Towards Continuous 0 to 10: The Continuum Approach to Estimating the Distribution of Happiness in a Nation

Kalmijn, Wim - In: Social Indicators Research 110 (2013) 2, pp. 549-557

Happiness is often measured in surveys using responses to a single question with a limited number of response options, such as ‘very happy’, ‘fairly happy’ and ‘not too happy’. There is much variety in the wording and number of response options used, which limits comparability across...

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Estimating the Reliability of Single-Item Life Satisfaction Measures: Results from Four National Panel Studies

Lucas, Richard; Donnellan, M. Brent - In: Social Indicators Research 105 (2012) 3, pp. 323-331

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Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales

Diener, Ed; Inglehart, Ronald; Tay, Louis - In: Social Indicators Research 112 (2013) 3, pp. 497-527

National accounts of subjective well-being are being considered and adopted by nations. In order to be useful for policy deliberations, the measures of life satisfaction must be psychometrically sound. The reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change of life satisfaction measures are...

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Does Trust Mean the Same for Migrants and Natives? Testing Measurement Models of Political Trust with Multi-group Confirmatory Factor Analysis

André, Stéfanie - In: Social Indicators Research 115 (2014) 3, pp. 963-982

can be modeled in a structural equation model. Furthermore, we research the cross-cultural equivalence of this measurement …

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