Quality of life among university students in Cagliari. A

Abstract: This article reports findings from a survey addressed to measure university students ’ quality of life in Cagliari. The aim to build up a synthetic indicator of students ’ ‘quality of life at the university ’ has been pursued by adopting an ad hoc modeling approach to scale ordered items (Item Response Models) which belongs to the family of the Generalized Linear and non Lin-ear Mixed Models. The sensibility of the results has been deeply analyzed by setting up several models with different characteristics. A comparison study with other scaling methods has been made