Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Author "De Jonge, Tineke"
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Conversion of verbal response scales: robustness across demographic categories
De Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Moonen, Linda; Kalmijn, Wim; Van Beuningen, Jacqueline; Arends, Lidia (Springer, 2016)Happiness and life satisfaction have traditionally been measured using verbal response scales, however, these verbal scales have not kept up with the present trend to use numerical response scales. A switch from a verbal ... -
Homogenizing responses to different survey questions on the same topic: Proposal of a scale homogenization method using a reference distribution
De Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Arends, Lidia (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. ... -
Pooling time series based on slightly different questions about the same topic forty years of survey research on happiness and life satisfaction in the Netherlands
De Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Kalmijn, Wim; Arends, Lidia (Springer, 2016)Survey research on subjective wellbeing in The Netherlands started in the early 1970s. The time series happiness and life satisfaction that have emerged since then are unfortunately based on slightly different survey items ... -
Stability of boundaries between response options of response scales: does ‘very happy’ remain equally happy over the years?
De Jonge, Tineke; Kalmijn, Wim; Veenhoven, Ruut; Arends, Lidia (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
De Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Arends, Lidia (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 ...