It’s not clear to me what relationship one should expect between the cardinality (or not) of subjective scales and the relationship between ratings of overall SWB and rating of sub-domains (and thus what one could infer about the other from results in the first).
As a separate point, I’m not sure how to make sense of the putative inconsistency Kaj’s notes. I haven’t looked into the relationships between overall rating and rating of sub-domains; it’s not something that I’ve heard SWB researchers discuss much either. The most obvious explanations, in addition to those mentioned below, are to appeal to missing domains and/or different temporal foci (i.e. you just think about sub domains are they are now, but your life you also think about the future.
Thanks for this!
How do you think the potential consistency over time (A) squares with the inconsistency between scales & sub-scales that Kaj pointed out?
It’s not clear to me what relationship one should expect between the cardinality (or not) of subjective scales and the relationship between ratings of overall SWB and rating of sub-domains (and thus what one could infer about the other from results in the first).
As a separate point, I’m not sure how to make sense of the putative inconsistency Kaj’s notes. I haven’t looked into the relationships between overall rating and rating of sub-domains; it’s not something that I’ve heard SWB researchers discuss much either. The most obvious explanations, in addition to those mentioned below, are to appeal to missing domains and/or different temporal foci (i.e. you just think about sub domains are they are now, but your life you also think about the future.