Elisabet Borg
PhD, Assistant Professor
I am mainly working as a teacher in Statistics and Research methods, also giving some lectures in Perception and Psychophysics.
Teaching
Statistics and Research methods, including subjects such as: the basics on design of quantitative research, including issues on reliability and validity; descriptive statistics and basic inferential statistics (hypothesis testing) with methods such as regression analyses, t-tests, chi-square, and analysis of variance.
I am also giving some lectures in Perception and Psychophysics, especially on psychophysical scaling, “Borg-scales” and applications.
Most of my teaching is on the undergraduate level, and on the psychology program.
Research
Working in the tradition of S.S. Stevens and together with my father, professor Gunnar Borg with comparisons of different scaling methods regarding their metric properties, meaning of scale values and possibilities of making interindividual comparisons. Of special interest is thus “Level Anchored Ratio Scaling” and the Category-Ratio method, especially the more recently developed Borg “centiMax” or CR100 scale, and its widened use in any subject area where an intensity evaluation is desired (also for feelings and emotions).
Viktor Sarris, Allen Parducci, Elisabet Borg, Gunnar Borg and Robert Teghtsoonian
at FechnerDay 2004
Other interests are the problem of distinguishing ”rating-behavior” and context effects from perceptually interesting differences; the uni- and multidimensionality of different perceptual concepts, such as perceived exertion, pain, and fatigue, etc.; the use of scaling in clinical diagnostics as an instrument for discriminating between different ”groups of patients” with problems of peripheral and/or central character like, e.g., repetitive strain injury, chronic fatigue syndrome, coronary heart problems, dyspnea and COPD, and the likes.
Dissertation Subject
Comparisons between different psychophysical scaling techniques, especially concerning the development of the new, more fine graded Borg “centiMax” or CR100 scale, and its use for interindividual comparisons within the area of perceived exertion (see also Research, below).
Dissertation
Borg, E. (2007). On Perceived Exertion and its Measurement. [Full info i DiVA, inklusive fulltext i pdf]
For reference, by Gunnar Borg:
Borg, G. (1962). Physical Performance and Perceived Exertion. Lund: CWK Gleerup. [Full-text, scanned PDF]
Publications
Griep, M., Borg, E., Collys, K, & Massart, D.L. (1998). Category Ratio Scales as an Alternative to Magnitude Matching for Age-Related Taste and Odour Perception, Food Quality and Preference, 9, 67-72. www.ingentaconnect.com
Borg, G., & Borg, E. (2001). A new generation of scaling methods: Level-anchored ratio scaling. Psychologica, 28, 15-45. [Full-text, PDF, with kind permission from Psychologica]
Borg, E., & Borg, G. (2002). A comparison of AME and CR100 for scaling perceived exertion. Acta Psychologica, 109, 157-175. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Borg, E., & Kaijser, L. (2006). A comparison between three rating scales for perceived exertion and two different work tests. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 16: 57-69.
www.blackwell-synergy.com
Borg, E., & Westerlund, J. (2006). Statistik för beteendevetare. Stockholm, Sverige: Liber Förlag.
www.liber.se
Borg, E., Borg, G., Larsson, K., Letzter, M., & Sundblad, B-M. (2009). An index for breathlessness and leg fatigue. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2009.00985.x www3.interscience.wiley.com
Find Borg's abstracts in the Annual Report database.
Miscellaneous
Participation in several international conferences organized by the International Society for Psychophysics, and in the organizing committee for the conference in 2003.
Invited paper presented at the XXVIII International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China, 8-13 August 2004. [PDF]
