Hello! My undergrad adviser doesnt recommend me to use age as an IV for my comparative study since ryff's 6 dimensions dont include age or any demographics. Also, he doesnt recommend my 2 groups to be caregivers vs non caregivers because of homogeneity. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you!
What's the question? The most important area of controversy around the Ryff scales is whether there are six distinct dimensions or fewer. This would be a structural equation model, or – and I don't think this has been done – use Mokken scaling to see of you can find evidence of 6 or fewer sub scales.
But I'm assuming that you're looking for a question, are you??
Hello! So I would be doing a comparative study on the well being of formal vs informal caregivers. However, my problem is on the scoring of the scale. There is no standardized score so it depends upon the sampling distribution. Ryff gave some suggestions like getting the upper and lower 25% of the scores to determine high or low well-being. So does this mean the middle scores not included in the quartile will be disregarded?
In reference to your follow-up question, is there a reason you are looking to dichotomize into high vs low well-being? As you noted, you will lose a lot of data this way (probably with some questionable cut-off decision criteria of juxtaposing scores - a problem similar to that of median splits). If there is no specific reasoning behind dichotomizing the scores, I would recommend keeping them continuous.
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