Health and wellbeing through work and retirement transitions in mature age: Understanding pre-post and retrospective measures of change
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Wells, Yvonne; De Vaus, David; Kendig, Hal; Quine, Susan
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The capacity to measure change is essential in examining successful adaptation to ageing. Few studies measuring change have compared findings using pre-post approaches (employing difference scores) with those from retrospective approaches (employing self-ratings). Where this has occurred, differences have been attributed either to ceiling and floor effects or to the operation of social comparison (Choi, 2002, 2003). Our study compared pre-post and retrospective measures of change in health,...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2009 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/19310 |
Source: | International Journal of Aging and Human Development |
DOI: | 10.2190/AG.69.4.c |
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