Evaluating the reliability and validity of SF-8 with a large representative sample of urban Chinese

Table 5 Known-groups Validity of SF-8 Based on Cohen’s d

	Age				Gender	Education	Income (CNY)	Overall QOL
	20–30	30–40	40–50	50–60	Men	>HS	> 5000	2nd	3rd
	vs. > 60	vs. > 60	vs. > 60	vs. > 60	vs. Women	vs. ≤HS	vs. ≤5000	vs. 1st	vs. 1st
PF	0.54	0.31	0.30	0.22	0.02	0.22	0.05	0.28	0.41
RP	0.53	0.25	0.27	0.21	0.01	0.27	0.04	0.30	0.41
BP	0.60	0.39	0.31	0.25	0.04	0.22	0.06	0.30	0.46
GH	0.49	0.39	0.28	0.28	0.07	0.12	0.08	0.37	0.55
VT	0.27	0.28	0.18	0.28	0.14	0.02	0.09	0.29	0.44
SF	0.24	0.12	0.11	0.11	0.04	0.13	0.04	0.29	0.41
RE	0.31	0.13	0.10	0.15	0.03	0.20	0.06	0.32	0.40
MH	−0.06	−0.09	−0.16	−0.06	0.10	0.02	0.01	0.25	0.45

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