Issues in Evaluating Importance Weighting in Quality of Life Measures

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 681-693

  Hsieh, Chang ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain importance; Formative indicator model; Life satisfaction; Measurement; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872501833     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-011-9951-1     Document Type: Article

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