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.
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With three, seven-point Likert-type items, the scale measures the extent to which a person actively participated in a particular decision-making process with another person and, afterward, felt accountable for the decision that was made.
The scale has four, five-point Likert-type items that measure how much a person believes that a particular task he/she engaged in strengthened what was personally important in life.
One’s attitude regarding how much he/she liked a person with whom he/she worked with in a particular joint task and the willingness to work with that person again is measured with three, seven-point items.
How much effort a participant put into a study and how interesting he/she considered it to be is measured with four, seven-point items.
Four, seven-point Likert-type items measure a person’s usage of two media at the same time to perform one or more tasks. To be clear, the scale focuses on what a person did in a particular situation rather than his/her tendency over time to multi-task.
The pride a person feels after accomplishing a particular task is measured with four, seven-point Likert items.
Four, seven-point Likert items are used to measure the degree of confidence a person has in his/her capability to learn a particular task and competently perform it.
How complex and time-consuming a task is considered to be is measured with three, seven-point Likert items.
The degree of difficulty a person expresses in choosing one brand from among several in a product category is measured with three, seven-point semantic differentials.
How much a person enjoyed a particular activity is measured with five, seven-point uni-polar items.
