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scale development theory and applications

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What this book knows

Measurement validity and reliability are built, not assumed—scale construction is rigorous craft with defensible, testable logic at every step.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Primary
Religion: Absent

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mind-and-cognition

beliefs, motivational states, expectancies, needs, emotions, and social role perceptions are but a few examples of variables not directly observable
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construct validity can be assessed only indirectly because the relevant comparison is to a latent rather than an observed variable
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reflective indicators reflect or are the effect of an underlying cause; formative indicators combine to cause the variable in question
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education-and-formation

Hippocrates' efforts may have been among the earliest to think of overt indicators of mental illness in terms of their latent causes
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a point estimate of alpha does not reflect the variability present in the estimation process, providing false confidence in consistency
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self-and-identity

the wording was unfortunate: 'How far did your mother go in school?'—investigators had totally failed to recognize the unintended meaning
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