Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Subject "Research synthesis"
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Homogenizing responses to different survey questions on the same topic: Proposal of a scale homogenization method using a reference distribution
(Springer, 2014)Survey data are often used for comparison purposes, such as comparisons across nations or comparisons over time. To be effective, this would require equivalent questions and equivalent responses options to the questions. ... -
Informed pursuit of happiness: what we should know, do know and can get to know
(Springer, 2015)The rational pursuit of happiness requires knowledge of happiness and in particular answers to the following four questions: (1) Is greater happiness realistically possible? (2) If so, to what extent is that in our own ... -
Social conditions for human happiness: A review of research
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)Empirical research on happiness took off in the 1970s and accelerated after the emergence of positive psychology by 2000. Today this has resulted in some 23,000 research findings. In this article, I take stock of the ... -
Stability of boundaries between response options of response scales: does ‘very happy’ remain equally happy over the years?
(Springer, 2015)The differences between response scales in number and wording of response options make it hard to compare data from survey research and to perform research syntheses. A recent method that we have developed to tackle this ... -
‘Very happy’ is not always equally happy: on the meaning of verbal response options in survey questions
(Springer, 2015)Survey research is based on questioning and respondents typically answer to questions by picking one of several response options. These response options are labeled verbally with terms such as very happy or fairly happy ...