Inter-regional metric disadvantages when comparing countries’ happiness on a global scale. A Rasch based consequential validity analysis

Happiness has been proposed as an alternative goal in welfare analyses. Several indices have been proposed for its measurement but studies about their metric properties and validity are insufficient. In this paper, the Happy Planet Index is analyzed in terms of its consequential validity as a globa...

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Autor principal:	Diego Fernando Rojas-Gualdrón
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Publicado:	Universidad de San Buenaventura 2017
Materias:	Economics Global health Happiness Health Inequalities Validation studies Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3a78e8c585c44a03bc0ec1f73e9a33a02021-11-17T02:21:43ZInter-regional metric disadvantages when comparing countries’ happiness on a global scale. A Rasch based consequential validity analysis2011-20842011-7922https://doaj.org/article/3a78e8c585c44a03bc0ec1f73e9a33a02017-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistas.usb.edu.co/index.php/IJPR/article/view/2995https://doaj.org/toc/2011-2084https://doaj.org/toc/2011-7922 Happiness has been proposed as an alternative goal in welfare analyses. Several indices have been proposed for its measurement but studies about their metric properties and validity are insufficient. In this paper, the Happy Planet Index is analyzed in terms of its consequential validity as a global health inequality indicator from the invariant measurement perspective of the Rasch model. Model fit is analyzed with emphasis on differential item functioning when comparing between world regions, and its consequential validity by comparing conclusions about the magnitude and inequalities in countries’ happiness. Main findings show enough evidences for structural and construct validity, but not for the supposed underlying score distribution; not either for its generalizability because of sever differential functioning. Conclusions about the magnitude of geographical inequalities and happiest countries substantially differed between the original index and the Rasch measure. Diego Fernando Rojas-GualdrónUniversidad de San BuenaventuraarticleEconomicsGlobal healthHappinessHealth InequalitiesValidation studiesPsychologyBF1-990ENESInternational Journal of Psychological Research, Vol 10, Iss 2 (2017)
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topic	Economics Global health Happiness Health Inequalities Validation studies Psychology BF1-990
spellingShingle	Economics Global health Happiness Health Inequalities Validation studies Psychology BF1-990 Diego Fernando Rojas-Gualdrón Inter-regional metric disadvantages when comparing countries’ happiness on a global scale. A Rasch based consequential validity analysis
description	Happiness has been proposed as an alternative goal in welfare analyses. Several indices have been proposed for its measurement but studies about their metric properties and validity are insufficient. In this paper, the Happy Planet Index is analyzed in terms of its consequential validity as a global health inequality indicator from the invariant measurement perspective of the Rasch model. Model fit is analyzed with emphasis on differential item functioning when comparing between world regions, and its consequential validity by comparing conclusions about the magnitude and inequalities in countries’ happiness. Main findings show enough evidences for structural and construct validity, but not for the supposed underlying score distribution; not either for its generalizability because of sever differential functioning. Conclusions about the magnitude of geographical inequalities and happiest countries substantially differed between the original index and the Rasch measure.
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author	Diego Fernando Rojas-Gualdrón
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title	Inter-regional metric disadvantages when comparing countries’ happiness on a global scale. A Rasch based consequential validity analysis
title_short	Inter-regional metric disadvantages when comparing countries’ happiness on a global scale. A Rasch based consequential validity analysis
title_full	Inter-regional metric disadvantages when comparing countries’ happiness on a global scale. A Rasch based consequential validity analysis
title_fullStr	Inter-regional metric disadvantages when comparing countries’ happiness on a global scale. A Rasch based consequential validity analysis
title_full_unstemmed	Inter-regional metric disadvantages when comparing countries’ happiness on a global scale. A Rasch based consequential validity analysis
title_sort	inter-regional metric disadvantages when comparing countries’ happiness on a global scale. a rasch based consequential validity analysis
publisher	Universidad de San Buenaventura
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Inter-regional metric disadvantages when comparing countries’ happiness on a global scale. A Rasch based consequential validity analysis

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