Abandoning the language of "response shift": A plea for conceptual clarity in distinguishing scale recalibration from true changes in quality of life

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 465-471

  Ubel, Peter A ^a,b   Peeters, Yvette ^a,c   Smith, Dylan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hedonic adaptation; Response shift; Scale recalibration; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 77956392699     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-010-9592-x     Document Type: Review

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