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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Using three, four-point items, the scale measures how often a person has negative thoughts about commercials. The scale was made for use by children.
Six, eleven-point unit-polar items are used to measure how soft and pleasing an object is judged to be. The scale appears to most useful when measuring a sensation associated with the sense of touch.
The scale uses three, five-point Likert-type items to measure the degree to which a customer believes that employees of a business engaged in behaviors that infringed on one’s space and activities in the establishment.
Using three, five-point Likert-type items, the scale measures the degree to which a customer felt pressure from the employees of a retail establishment to quickly make a decision and finish activity there.
The scale has seven, seven-point Likert-type items that measure the degree to which a consumer is motivated to resist a specific object, such as an ad, that is believed to have been forced upon him/her. The emphasis is on the impropriety of the object rather than how much it limits one’s decision-making freedom.
The degree to which a person has negative beliefs about advertising in general is measured with five, five-point Likert-type items.
How easy and enjoyable a person believes a task to be is measured with three, nine-point bi-polar adjectives.
This scale uses four, seven-point items to measure the degree to which a person believes that an e-mail message he/she has received from a company is annoying and confusing.
Three statements are used to measure the extent to which a customer believes that employees of a business engaged in behaviors that disturbed one’s activities in the establishment, with an emphasis on employee distractions near closing time.
Using four, uni-polar items, the scale measures the extent to which a person experienced feelings of resentment and outrage during a particular event.
