Attitude assessment in non-western countries: Critical modifications to Likert scaling *

Psychologia

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-59

  Carr, Stuart C ^b   Munro, Donald ^b   Bishop, George D ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NONE

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