Is a single-item visual analogue scale as valid, reliable and responsive as multi-item scales in measuring quality of life?
By A. D. de Boer, J. V. van Lanschot, P. Stalmeier, J. van Sandick, J. Hulscher, J. de Haes, M. Sprangers. Quality of Life Research, 2004
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Citations in the corpus
- Benefits of choral singing for social and mental wellbeing: qualitative findings from a cross‐national survey of choir members (2012, background): “Research has shown that single item measures of quality of life and mental health can effectively discriminate between different groups in a reliable and valid manner (de Boer et al., 2004; McKenzie and Marks, 1999).”
- Guidelines for choosing between multi-item and single-item scales for construct measurement: a predictive validity perspective (2012, background): “With “global” SI measures, respondents tend to ignore aspects that are not relevant to their situations and differentially weight the relevant aspects to provide a single rating (De Boer et al. 2004).”
- The Single-Item Math Anxiety Scale (2014, background): “Since then, several single-item scales have been developed to measure constructs such as quality of life (de Boher et al., 2004; Yohannes, Dodd, Morris, & Webb, 2011), job satisfaction (Nagy, 2002), burnout (Rohland, Kruse, & Rohrer, 2004), and depression (Ayalon, Goldfracht, & Bech, 2009;…”
- Another Look at Likert Scales (2016, background): “…in scope, unidimensional, concrete, and unambiguous a single item is often as useful as more complex multi-item scales in predictive validity (Bergkvist and Rossiter 2007; de Boer et al. 2004; Diamantopoulos et al. 2012; Sackett and Larson 1990; Rossiter 2002; Wanous, Reichers, and Hudy 1997).”
- ‘Show me the goods’: Assessing the effectiveness of transparent packaging vs. product imagery on product evaluation (2018, methodology): “Indeed, single-item scales are thought 249 appropriate for exploratory research (Diamantopoulos, Sarstedt, Fuchs, Wilczynski, 250 & Kaiser, 2012) and for use with VAS scales (e.g., Boer et al., 2004), with both of 251 these conditions being present in the design of this research.”