Scaling of life change: Comparison of direct and indirect methods

Journal of Psychosomatic ResearchPublished 1 June 1971

Libby O. Ruch, Thomas H. Holmes

DOI10.1016/0022-3999(71)90011-0

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The data from an adolescent sample compared with an adult sample supported the hypothesis of a general value consensus about the seriousness of life events and revealed that the direct (magnitude estimation) and indirect (paired comparisons) scaling methods produced similar scales of lifeEvents when applied to the same sample.

Abstract

The data from an adolescent sample compared with an adult sample supported the hypothesis of a general value consensus about the seriousness of life events. The analysis also revealed that the direct (magnitude estimation) and indirect (paired comparisons) scaling methods, which are based on different assumptions, produced similar scales of life events when applied to the same sample.

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