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.
sensitivity
A person’s beliefs about the degree to which he/she is prone to changing attitudes or having them changed is measured with sixteen, seven-point Likert-type items.
The degree to which a person describes a person as having traits stereotypically associated with females is measured in this scale with three, five-point unipolar items.
The scale has three, seven-point items that measure a person’s tendency to notice and attend to his/her emotions and changing moods.
The seven, seven-point items in this scale are intended to measure a person’s self-consciousness regarding the way he/she looks and the desire to look good to others.
Seven, five-point items are used to measure a personality trait having to do with the amount of attention given to one's health and to monitoring any changes.
The four, seven-point items composing this scale attempt to measure a person's trait-like tendency to feel compassion and/or sympathy for others, particularly those who are suffering.
The degree to which a person experiences strong, negative affective responses to the expectation or occurrence of unpleasant events is measured with seven items.
The scale has three, seven-point Likert-type items intended to measure a person's positive reaction to another person's nonverbal expression of emotion.
A person's negative reaction to the nonverbal expression of emotion by another person is measured in this scale with three, seven-point Likert-type items.
The tendency for a person's emotions to be adjusted, possibly subconsciously, to match those of another person is measured in this scale with eight, seven-point Likert-type items.
