Conceptual and Methodological Issues Related to Welfare Assessment: A Framework for Measurement
In all facets of animal welfare, as in human health and quality of life, the unambiguous and valid measurement of the key attributes is of critical importance. Welfare is a complex construct and in this paper we present a methodological framework for the development of a composite animal welfare scale based on psychometric and metrological principles for scale creation developed in human medicine and Psychology. We indicate how these principles can be applied and how the resulting scale would then be validated and tested.
Keywords: ANIMAL WELFARE; COMPOSITE MEASUREMENT SCALE; PSYCHOMETRIC PRINCIPLES; SCALING MODELS
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 02 February 2001
- Editorial Board
- Information for Authors
- Subscribe to this Title
- Ingenta Connect is not responsible for the content or availability of external websites
- Access Key
- Free content
- Partial Free content
- New content
- Open access content
- Partial Open access content
- Subscribed content
- Partial Subscribed content
- Free trial content