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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This scale has three, seven-point Likert-type items that measure a consumer’s beliefs that he/she has insight into the characteristics, quality, and aesthetics of an object.
The extent to which a person believes he/she has what it takes to make wise financial decisions, especially with respect to investments, is measured with five, seven-point Likert-type items.
How much one’s uncertainty about something is determined to some degree by randomness is measured with three, five-point Likert-type items. The scale is amenable for use with a wide variety of issues.
Three, five-point Likert-type items are used in this scale to measure the degree to which a person believes that something in the future which is currently uncertain can be more accurately predicted with enough information. The scale is amenable for use with a wide variety of issues.
This scale uses five, seven-point items to measure a person’s belief in his/her ability to operate manual and automatic transmission automobiles. (Two items refer to driving a manual transmission vehicle while the other three items are relevant for either type.)
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 degree to which a customer believes a service provider is the best is because it understands his/her needs better than the others. The scale is composed of three, seven-point Likert-type items.
The scale measures the degree to which a person believes a particular candidate has positive attributes such as sincerity and knowledgeability that make him/her qualified for the political office.
The degree of certainty a person has in the appropriateness of a particular choice in which one option was selected over another one (explicitly stated) is measured in this five-item Likert scale.
Using three, seven-point items, this scale measures how much a person feels uncertain about a choice he/she has made.
