Donald, Cathy A.,  1947- <br/><br/>
The quantification of social contacts and resources / 
Cathy A. Donald, John E. Ware, Jr. 
 - xxi, 228 pages :  illustrations ;  28 cm 
 - Health insurance experiment series .
<br/><br/> "October 1982." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-228). 
<br/><br/> This report presents the results from empirical tests of strategies for scoring social well-being items fielded by RAND's Health Insurance Experiment (HIE).  Section II presents background material, a conceptual framework for social well-being measurements, an outline of measurement issues and strategies involved in quantifying questionnaire responses, and a summary of how other investigators have constructed social well-being measures. Section III describes the methodology used in the HIE.  Sections IV and V present results of empirical analyses, recommend a scoring rule for each of the 11 HIE social well-being items, and describe the results of scaling analyses including descriptive statistics, interrelationships among measures, the reliability of resulting scores, associations between social well-being measures and selected sociodemographic and health variables, and effects of socially desirable responding on social well-being measures.  Section VI discusses the findings and offers suggestions for future research based on the experiences with HIE measures. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0833004417 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Standard Tech. Report. No.: </label>RAND/R-2937-HHS 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Online only 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>82016574 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Health status indicators--United States.<br/>Health status indicators.<br/>Health surveys--United States.<br/>Health surveys.<br/>Social interaction--United States.<br/>Social interaction.<br/>Social medicine--Methodology.<br/>Social medicine--United States.<br/>Health Surveys--United States.<br/>Social Behavior--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA418  / .D655 1982