A Closer Look at Attitude Scales with Positive and Negative Items. Response Latency Perspectives on Measurement Quality

Measurement quality in standardized surveys has been a core issue for decades in survey research. For questionnaire designers, it is common to use a mix of positive and negative worded items to measure multi-item-constructs in order to control for response effects like acquiescence bias. The paper...

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Main Authors: Jochen Mayerl, Christoph Giehl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Survey Research Association 2018-12-01
Series:Survey Research Methods
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Online Access:https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/7207