Children’s perspectives on scale response options of subjective well-being measures: A comparison between numerical and verbal-response formats

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dc.contributor.authorSavahl, S
dc.contributor.authorMontserrat, C
dc.contributor.authorAdams, S
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-03T09:12:19Z
dc.date.available2021-06-03T09:12:19Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractIt is crucial to establish the validity of existing measures of children’s subjective well-being (SWB) for use within specific contexts. Two important measurement issues that implicate the validly of SWB scales are ‘question framing’ and ‘response options’. Fundamental to the latter is the concept of scale granularity, which refers to the number of response options imposed on a scale. However, the majority of studies on the topic have used adult and not child samples. The overarching aim of the study was to explore how children from three different contexts (Catalonia, Cape Town and North-Western Romania) perceive, understand, and make sense of SWB instruments, using focus group interviews and thematic analysis. A key finding of the study was the similarities in children’s understandings of the response options across these contexts. While this does not represent a claim for a ‘universal understanding’ of measurement scale response formats, it is suggesting that there are similar cognitive processes that children across the contexts apply when making sense of and deciding on which response option to endorse (for both verbal and numerical formats).en_US
dc.identifier.citationSavahl, S. et al. (2021). Children’s perspectives on scale response options of subjective well-being measures: A comparison between numerical and verbal-response formats. Child Indicators Research, 14(1), 53-75en_US
dc.identifier.issn1874897X
dc.identifier.uri10.1007/s12187-020-09748-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/6246
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen_US
dc.subjectChild participationen_US
dc.subjectChildren’s subjective well-being measuresen_US
dc.subjectFocus group interviewsen_US
dc.subjectNumericalen_US
dc.subjectVerbal-responseen_US
dc.titleChildren’s perspectives on scale response options of subjective well-being measures: A comparison between numerical and verbal-response formatsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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