The Marketing Scales Handbook is indispensable in identifying how constructs have been measured and the support for a measure's validity and reliability. I have used it since the beginning as a resource in my doctoral seminar and as an aid to my own research. An electronic version will make it even more accessible to researchers in Marketing and affiliated fields.
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The scale has three, seven-point Likert-type items that measure how much a person believes she/he was able to move a hologram with his/her hands.
The degree to which a person believed that a hologram was moved because of his/her voice-commands is measured with three, seven-point Likert-type items.
How much a parent engages in active co-use of the Internet with his/her child in order to guide behavior is measured using six, seven-point Likert-type items.
The extent to which a person feels a sense of personal control in a particular situation is measured with four, seven-point Likert-type items.
The extent to which a consumer has focused on constraining his/her spending in a particular context is measured with three, seven-point questions. The purchase context is not explicitly stated in the items and must be stated elsewhere.
The scale has five, five-point items that measure how much a person feels mentally drained and unfocused at the current time.
Three, seven-point Likert-type items measure a consumer’s belief that he/she has the power to handle and use an object as desired.
Four, seven-point items are used to measure the motivation a person has to be free to make his/her own choices and not be controlled.
The scale uses four Likert-type items to measure how much a person believes that another person does not legally own a certain item but is engaging in behaviors that seem to signal that he/she does.
How much one wants to be in control of his/her life, most particularly his/her job, is measured with three, seven-point Likert-type items.
