Do We Need to Weight Item Satisfaction by Item Importance? A Perspective from Locke’s Range-Of-Affect Hypothesis
Social Indicators ResearchPublished 24 April 2006
Chia‐Huei Wu, Grace Yao
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importance, quality of life, satisfaction, weighting,
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