The Marketing Scales Handbook is indispensible in identifying how constructs have been measured and the support for a measure's validity and reliability. I have used it since the beginning as a resource in my doctoral seminar and as an aid to my own research. An electronic version will make it even more accessible to researchers in Marketing and affiliated fields.
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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.
The scale uses three statements to measure a consumer’s belief that he/she has expert level knowledge with respect to a specific product category and is an excellent source of information for friends buying such a product.
The scale has four, seven-point items that measure a consumer’s relative level of familiarity with a product category as well as a good understanding of the attributes that will provide satisfaction.
The degree to which a person expresses confidence in his/her ability to find information about a product in order to make a decision is measured with three, seven-point Likert-type items. While this scale might be used with sources other than online, it seems to be most suited for that context.
With three, seven-point Likert-type items, the scale measures the degree of knowledge a person has about the normal price level of a particular product category.
The scale uses four, seven-point Likert-type items to measure a person’s belief that he/she has greater experience with, interest in, and usage of the internet than most people.
Ten, seven-point Likert-type items are used to measure how knowledgeable a person reports being with regard to jokes. Although the scale measures self-reported awareness and recall of jokes, it does not explicitly measure if a person believes him/herself to be funny in telling the jokes.
