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Improving the Factor Structure of Psychological Scales: The Expanded Format as an Alternative to the Likert Scale Format

Many psychological scales written in the Likert format include reverse worded (RW) items in order to control acquiescence bias. However, studies have shown that RW items often contaminate the factor structure of the scale by creating one or more method factors. The present study examines an alternat...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Xijuan, Savalei, Victoria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4849088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27182074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013164415596421