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punishment

Composed of four, seven-point Likert-type items, this scale measures a customer's intentional efforts to reduce the level of interaction with a business in several ways.

Four, five-point items compose the scale and measure the degree to which a customer has reacted to a service failure by considering retribution and possibly taken action against the business or its employees.

Four, seven-point Likert-type items are used in this scale to measure a person's motivation to disengage from interacting with a business.  The reason for the avoidance is not stated in the scale but will need to be provided somewhere in the instrument to frame the questions for respondents.

With five, seven-point Likert-type items, this scale measures a person's motivation to engage in activities that are expected to hurt the business which the  respondent believes is responsible for some sort of damage.

The degree to which a customer has expressed dissatisfaction with a company to other people is measured with three, seven-point Likert-type items.

The scale is composed of three, seven-point Likert-type items that measure the degree to which a customer personally has complained to a business about a problem with the purpose of seeking revenge by inconveniencing it and verbally abusing its employees.