Path Modeling between Urban Factors and Happiness of People with Disabilities: Using Partial Least Squares Multi-Group Analysis
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The paper addresses an interesting topic. Investigation of the relationship between urban factors and the happiness level of people with disabilities is considered interesting from a practical perspective.
However, comparing the two groups (people with disabilities versus people without disabilities might be biased). What is the role of other characteristics -social and demographic (age, income, education, degree of disability) supposing the two groups are not homogenous
The objectives of the paper could be more clearly formulated.
The theoretical part could be enlarged in terms of a critical review of the concept of happiness related to the subjective well-being of the topic (people with disabilities, for example).
The sample characteristics are presented in general lines (without focusing on the target -people with disabilities, the subtraction data of people with disabilities, for example).
What is the definition of disability? Furthermore, what are the premises on which the authors define the problem? What kind of disability?
Table 1 presents variables used in the analysis of happiness using the Likert Scale. Happiness is subjective (deal with hedonic or eudemonic happiness). To define happiness only on five points Likert Scale seems too straightforward since happiness is a multidimensional concept.
However, the analysis and results are interesting.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The article submitted for review is interesting, but it may also be difficult for a potential reader to understand. This results from the presented methodology and research results, it is difficult to distinguish here what is the methodology and what is the result already obtained by the authors. I propose to attach a diagram of the methodological procedure, from which the next steps of the procedure will clearly follow.
The article lacks some important information that will be necessary for a possible comparative analysis. They apply to people with disabilities in Korea and Seoul. How many people are there who are considered disabled, what rights and privileges do they have? The second important information is the 2021 Seoul Survey data, which is the basis of your research. What percentage of Seoul residents completed the survey, is there any selection of the research sample, was it mandatory, the form of filling in the sheet, is the question about disability voluntary or the answer is mandatory.
Minor notes:
Introduction - is it true that the cited literature (1) shows that the number of people with disabilities is increasing due to, among others, from the different types of disabilities.
Literature review - you write that the literature states that the level of happiness of people with disabilities is lower than that of non-disabled people - what literature/authors.
chapter 3.1 - please explain exactly where the dependent variables and independent variables come from (in this chapter or better in the literature review).
chapter 3.2 - the size of the able-bodied group was incorrectly stated;
there is no point in comparing the results of a group of able-bodied people and the whole group - they accounted for almost 99% of this group.
chapter 3.3. verse 186 what previous studies are we talking about?
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
All my comments have been taken into account. I only have a suggestion to remove Figure 1. The scheme of the methodology contained in figure 2 is sufficient.
