Do we need to weight item satisfaction by item importance? A perspective from Locke's range-of-affect hypothesis

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 485-502

  Wu, Chia Huei ^a   Yao, Grace ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Importance; Quality of life; Satisfaction; Weighting

Indexed keywords

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 33750738252     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-005-5666-5     Document Type: Article

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