This scales book is a classic in psychometrics. It is instrumental for survey researchers in the fields of advertising, marketing, consumer psychology, and other related fields that rely largely on attitudinal measures. My copy has gotten me through years of field research by helping provide testable, reliable scales.
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Eight, five-point Likert-type items are used to measure how much a person has a one-sided “relationship” with vlogger (video blogger) and considers that media personality as if he/she were a friend.
Three semantic differentials are used to measure whether a customer has more of a communal relationship or an exchange relationship with a business or employee. In the scale, a communal relationship is informal and like a family whereas an exchange relationship is formal and purely transactional.
With three items, this scale measures a consumer’s belief that a brand expresses interest in being part of one’s life.
This three-item scale measures the belief that a brand is attempting to build a sense of closeness between itself and the consumer (the respondent).
The Likert scale has eight, five-point items that measure how much a person has had an experience in a virtual environment which allowed interaction with a simulated representation of a product.
The degree to which a person believes a particular website has interactive features which allow him/her to customize information is measured in this Likert scale with three, five-point items.
The extent to which a person would actively avoid interacting with others if he/she were in a certain physical environment is measured with three, seven-point items.
Using 13 Likert-type items and a 101-point response format, the scale measures the degree to which a person reports having one-way affiliation behavior and desires with a media celebrity.
With three, seven-point items, the scale measures the importance a person places on having friendly interactions with other participants of an online discussion thread.
Composed of three, five-point Likert-type items, the scale measures the degree to which a consumer believes that a particular website, most likely an online retailer, provides ways for customers to reach them and even speak with a live representative if desired.
