The Marketing Scales website is a gold mine of information. It is the only source that helps me understand the psychometric quality of the instruments used in past research. I recommend that researchers bookmark this site . . . they will be back!
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The extent to which a person believes that he/she knows what a company does and can describe them to others is measured with four, seven-point Likert-type items.
The scale uses three, seven-point Likert-type items to measure how much a person believes that a particular charity needs financial support from its donors.
The belief that there are opportunities for anyone to make economic progress and be successful through hard work is measured with five, seven-point Likert-type items.
With seven, seven-point Likert-type items, the scale measures the degree of care a person devotes to managing his/her money and long-term financial goals.
Composed of five, five-point items, the scale measures a person’s belief that he/she is burdened with personal financial instability as well as uncertainty and, because of that, not able to enjoy life.
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.
