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Three, seven-point items measure a person’s belief regarding the degree to which the family had enough money to pay for food and housing when he/she was growing up.
Six, seven-point Likert-type items measure how much a person believes he/she can stick to a budget, avoid spending when necessary, and accomplish financial goals.
A person’s confidence in his/her ability to accomplish financial goals is measured with seven Likert items.
The extent to which a person is described as having high social status and economic resources is measured in this scale with three, seven-point items.
The scale has five, six-point items that measure how quickly and easily a person believes he/she could repay money taken from personal savings or charged to a credit card if it was used to pay for an emergency.
How a person feels (affectively) about his/her financial status is measured with four, nine-point semantic differentials.
A person’s belief that he/she has the necessary financial resources to not only pay bills but also feel relatively wealthy is measured using three, seven-point Likert-type items.
The seven-point Likert-type scale has three items that measure the degree to which a person believes there would be a negative impact on the achievement of his/her long-term goals if money was drawn from savings that was set aside.
The scale employs eight, ten-point items to measure how stress-free and comfortable a person feels with respect to his/her financial condition.
Multiple versions of a seven-point Likert-type scale measure the degree to which a person believes he/she would feel guilty and irresponsible about withdrawing money from savings that was set aside for some purpose.
