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.
stress
With six, seven-point Likert-type items the scale measures a person’s ability to recover from stressful events that are experienced.
Composed of five, five-point items, the scale measures a person’s belief that he/she is burdened with personal financial instability as well as uncertainty and, because of that, not able to enjoy life.
The degree to which a consumer felt rushed and tense during a particular shopping trip to a store is measured with five, seven-point Likert-type items.
How a person feels (affectively) about his/her financial status is measured with four, nine-point semantic differentials.
The scale employs eight, ten-point items to measure how stress-free and comfortable a person feels with respect to his/her financial condition.
The scale has eight, seven-point Likert-type items that measure the degree to which a person believes, in general, that stress can enhance rather than debilitate his/her learning and productivity.
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.
Four items with a seven-point response format are used to measure how much a person has been burdened by something that has happened to the point that it depletes his/her ability to deal with it.
The extent to which a person feels awkward in a certain social context is measured in this scale with three uni-polar items.
With six, five-point, uni-polar items, the scale measures feelings of stress and discomfort one has experienced in some context.
