| Title | Scaling the Semantics of Satisfaction |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2000 |
| Authors | Hazelrigg, LE, Hardy, MA |
| Journal | Social Indicators Research |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pagination | 147-180 |
| Call Number | pubs_1998_Hazelrigg_LSocIndic.pdf |
| Keywords | Methodology, Retirement Planning and Satisfaction |
| Abstract | Self-assessed satisfaction is typically measured on an ordinal scale of verbal categories. Here, data from the 1992 Wave 1 of the US Health and Retirement Study (N = 12,654 respondents) are used to investigate whether the boundaries that persons implicitly set between contiguous categories are uniformly set across persons and/or across domains of satisfaction, or are variably sensitive to status characteristics and/or to domain. Analysis demonstrates systematic variations and sensitivities in the semantics of satisfaction. This semantic elasticity affects other estimates in models of self-assessed satisfaction. 3 Tables, 3 Figures, 43 References. Adapted from the source document |
| URL | https://www.jstor.org/stable/27522430 |
| Endnote Keywords | Semantics/Satisfaction/Scales/Classification/Measurement Instruments/Methodology/Methodology |
| Endnote ID | 1262 |
| Citation Key | 6688 |
