| Autor: |
Lorirnor, Ronald J., McBee, George W., Weinman, Maxine |
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Journal of Health & Social Behavior; Sep1979, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p306-308, 3p |
| Abstrakt: |
The psychometric issue under consideration has its origins in the repeated observation that the correlation between the sums of a weighted index and a simple count of the number of items checked is sufficiently high to render the two scoring systems equivalent. The authors argue that they do not find the balance of evidence suggesting that useful information is provided by applying different weights to life events. Unfortunately, the amount of information on which to base this decision is slim. The accumulation of information would be aided if the reporting of the correlations between weighted and unweighted life-event lists, and between each of them and the outside variable, became routine. Such routine reporting should be extended to the correlations between two weighted lists in which a subset of events are given status-dependent weights. Should results based on more representative samples continue to result in correlations of .86 and higher, one may have to agree that an uncontaminated measure of environmental stress may well consist of a simple count of the events. |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
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