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security

The scale is composed of six, seven-point Likert-type statements that are intended to measure the degree to which a person is worried about his/her close personal relationships with other individuals such that growing closer to them will lead to them drawing away.  The scale was called developmental insecurity by Rindfleisch, Burroughs, and Wong (2009).

A three-item, six-point scale is used for measuring the degree to which a person places importance on socially-related values such as security, belongingness, and respectability in his/her life.

This is a seven-point Likert-type scale that is purported to measure the degree to which a person feels secure in doing business with an organization and its employees.  When using all five items, the scale is most appropriate for use with a health-related service provider.

This scale is composed of three, nine-point Likert-type items intended to measure the degree to which a person desires certainty and the familiar in life as opposed to the unknown and taking risks.

A person's beliefs regarding the degree to which a particular online business protects customer information is measured using three, seven-point Likert-type items.

Three statements are used in this scale to measure how secure a person feels about engaging in various financial transactions online. The scale was called security risk perceptions by Montoya-Weiss, Voss, and Grewal (2003).

The scale has three, seven-point Likert-type statements that measure the degree of uncertainty a consumer has about using self-service technology to perform a function and concern that unacceptable results could occur.

The scale is composed of three statements that measure the degree to which a person believes a particular website has visual cues that indicate it is secure and meets certain business standards.

The scale is composed of three, seven-point Likert-type statements that are used to measure the degree to which a person believes that privacy and financial transactions are adequately protected by a particular website.

The scale has three statements that assess how easy it is for a person to understand the way a user's private information is used by a website.