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Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research 4/2010

01-05-2010 | Commentary

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

Auteurs: Peter A. Ubel, Yvette Peeters, Dylan Smith

Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research | Uitgave 4/2010

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Abstract

Quality of life researchers have been studying “response shift” for a decade now, in an effort to clarify how best to measure QoL over time and across changing circumstances. However, we contend that this line of research has been impeded by conceptual confusion created by the term “response shift”, that lumps together sources of measurement error (e.g., scale recalibration) with true causes of changing QoL (e.g., hedonic adaptation). We propose abandoning the term response shift, in favor of less ambiguous terms, like scale recalibration and adaptation.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Abandoning the language of “response shift”: a plea for conceptual clarity in distinguishing scale recalibration from true changes in quality of life
Auteurs
Peter A. Ubel
Yvette Peeters
Dylan Smith
Publicatiedatum
01-05-2010
Uitgeverij
Springer Netherlands
Gepubliceerd in
Quality of Life Research / Uitgave 4/2010
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2649
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-010-9592-x

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