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Dear Colleagues,
We want to remind you of our session "Assessing the cross-cultural equivalence of Well-Being approaches", which is taking place in Ljubljana at the 5th conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) on July 15-19, 2013. The deadline for abstract submission is approaching (at the end of this week, Sunday, January 13).
We are organizing a session with the title
Assessing the cross-cultural equivalence of Well-Being approaches
Session organizers: Wolfgang Aschauer, Reinhard Bachleitner, Martin Weichbold (all University of Salzburg)
Session description:
Research on Wellbeing has gained enormous importance during the last years. The motivation to build indices starting from simple indicators of happiness and life-satisfaction towards new multidimensional measurements (e.g. The Gross-National Happiness concept emerging from Bhutan, the National Accounts of Wellbeing adopted in the ESS or the new ONS Wellbeing concept of Great Britain) has developed in a climate of realization, that economically-based measures are not fruitful enough to assess the "healthy" state of a society. Despite this boom, also with regard to cross-national research, the analysis of the comparability of Wellbeing approaches still remains in its infancy. It seems to be common in Wellbeing research to take the cross-cultural equivalence of the concept for granted and to neglect the use of statistical tools for equivalence testing. On the other hand following the common rules of thumb (e.g. with MGCFA) meaning to set certain preconditions that the same items must be valid across different nations can be problematic because till now there is no leading theory on Wellbeing and certain components of the construct are culturally sensitive.
Accepting cultural differences and including them in comparative research can be a way out of this dilemma. It seems that locally emerging concepts are often far more valid than approaches with the intent of being universally relevant. Therefore this session highlights the question: How do we best establish comparability under these circumstances and how can we use the strength of existing concepts of Wellbeing for cross-national research?
The session aims at participants who work in the field of Wellbeing research and international comparisons. We welcome speakers who statistically try to assess the cross-national equivalence of Wellbeing approaches or try to develop new conceptual frameworks of Wellbeing which can be applied to cross-national research.
Abstracts should be submitted via the online submission system:
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/register http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/register .
Steps for submission of abstracts:
1. Log in or create an ESRA account (on the submission website) 2. Go to the submission website, log-in and click on "Submit a paper"
(Please note: It is not necessary to submit a paper, just an abstract containing 250 words at maximum) 3. Select the area of Substantive Applications for your submission and choose our session from the drop down menu (fourth from top).
Please submit abstracts of 200-250 words and indicate five keywords.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 13, 2013 Applicants will be notified if their papers are accepted by January 27, 2013
We kindly invite you to submit abstracts to this session and forward this call to those who might be interested and does not receive this member list news.
Thank you very much and best regards
Wolfgang Aschauer
MMag. Dr. Wolfgang Aschauer
Ass. Prof.
Division Sociology and Cultural Science
University of Salzburg
Rudolfskai 42
5020 Salzburg
e-mail: wolfgang.aschauer@sbg.ac.at mailto:wolfgang.aschauer@sbg.ac.at
homepage: http://www.uni-salzburg.at/soziologie/aschauer http://www.uni-salzburg.at/soziologie/aschauer
Von: Aschauer, Wolfgang Gesendet: Freitag, 30. November 2012 16:25 An: 'methoden@mailman.uni-konstanz.de' Betreff: Session: Assessing the cross-cultural equivalence of Well-Being approaches at ESRA Conference in Ljubljana
*** Please excuse any cross-postings of this CfP ***
Dear Colleagues,
We want to inform you of a session, which is taking place in Ljubljana at the 5th conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) on July 15-19, 2013.
We are organizing a session with the title
Assessing the cross-cultural equivalence of Well-Being approaches
Session organizers: Wolfgang Aschauer, Reinhard Bachleitner, Martin Weichbold (all University of Salzburg)
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/sessions?meth=Substant ive%20applications http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/sessions?meth=Substan tive%20applications
Abstracts should be submitted via the online submission system:
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/register http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/register .
Steps for submission of abstracts:
1. Log in or create an ESRA account (on the submission website) 2. (Go to the submission website, log-in) and click on "Submit a paper"
3. Select the area of Substantive Applications for your submission and choose our session from the drop down menu (fourth from top).
Please submit abstracts of 200-250 words and indicate five keywords.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 13, 2013 Applicants will be notified if their papers are accepted by January 27, 2013
We kindly invite you to submit papers to this session and forward this call to those who might be interested and does not receive this member list news.
Thank you very much and best regards
Wolfgang Aschauer
MMag. Dr. Wolfgang Aschauer
Ass. Prof.
Division Sociology and Cultural Science
University of Salzburg
Rudolfskai 42
5020 Salzburg
e-mail: wolfgang.aschauer@sbg.ac.at mailto:wolfgang.aschauer@sbg.ac.at
homepage: http://www.uni-salzburg.at/soziologie/aschauer http://www.uni-salzburg.at/soziologie/aschauer