The Marketing Scales Handbook is indispensable 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 scale uses eight, seven-point Likert-type items to measure a fan’s attitude about a particular sports team. The emphasis is on the team’s high standards and its efforts to please loyal fans.
A person’s opinion of a retailer that focuses on how well the business satisfies customers with low prices and customer service is measured with six, seven-point Likert-type items.
With three statements, the scale measures a customer’s regret for having patronized a certain retailer because of a bad experience there and the intention to reduce visits to the establishment if not stopping all together.
The degree to which a customer enjoyed the experience of shopping at a particular store, website, mall, etc. is measured in this scale with three, five-point Likert-type items.
A customer's belief that it is the retailer's responsibility that a product had to be returned is measured in this scale using three, seven-point items.
With three, seven-point Likert-type items, the scale measures the degree to which a customer takes responsibility for the need to return a product that has been purchased.
A person's level of satisfaction with the way a company has resolved a problem is assessed with three, seven-point Likert-type items.
Four, seven-point Likert-type items are used to measure a person's attitude about the fairness and reasonableness with which a conflict with a company was resolved.
Using three, seven-point items, the scale measures the degree to which a consumer believes a brand is consistently good.
Various non-monetary costs such as time, learning, and effort that are associated with changing brands within a product category are measured in this scale using five, seven-point Likert-type items.
