no ... there is more stuff more recently ... perhaps the reason why there
is not a 'wealth' of stuff is that the basic process for building attitude
scales has been known for a long time ... not too much 'modern' folks can add
see the following at: http://www.sagepub.com ... and enter attitudes OR ...
scale construction ... in the search tool ... here is one nice little book ...
Summated Rating Scale Construction
An Introduction
Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences
Volume: 82
Author:
Paul E Spector : University of South Florida, USA
Published By: SAGE Inc.
Pages: 80
Paperback
(0803943415):
January, 1992
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Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Studies Research
Methods Quantitative Statistics
Description:
Any time a social scientist finds it necessary to conduct a survey, the
goal is to develop a rating on some attitude, value, or
opinion--a summated rating scale. Aimed at helping researchers construct
more effective summated rating scales, Spector shows
how to determine the amount of items necessary, the appropriate amount of
response categories, the most productive wording
of items, how to sort good items from bad (including item-remainder
coefficients and Cronbach's alpha), and how to validate a
scale, including dimensional validity from factor analysis. Written in an
accessible style, the book concludes with a step-by-step
account of how to develop a summated rating scale based on classical test
theory.
"The steps of scale development are clearly explained, with brief
rationales of the methods involved. . . .Having read the book,
almost anyone with a basic social science education could go through the
practical motions of developing a scale. . . . says in
general terms that theory is important and goes on to provide hints on
how to generate a pool of items. The hints are
empirically sound and useful. . . "
--Joint Centre for Survey Methods Newsletter
Table Of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Theory of Summated Rating Scales
3. Defining the Construct
4. Designing the Scale
5. Conducting the Item Analysis
6. Validation
7. Reliability and Norms
8. Concluding Remarks
Notes
References
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At 11:21 AM 5/17/00 +0000, you wrote:
>I have been looking for resources on attitude scale construction. The
>methods I have been looking at are things like paired comparisons and
>successive intervals. The strange thing about finding descriptions of
>these methods is that the only book I can find in print is *Techniques
>of Attitude Scale Construction* by Edwards (1957?). In fact, it seems
>that nearly all the standard references on these statistical methods
>were published in the fifties or before.
>
>Does anyone know what happened? Did these methods go out of style
>bacause they were superceded?
>
>Regards,
>Tom
>
>
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