A caveat on using single-item versus multiple-item scales

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 68-75

  Loo, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Empirical study; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644239780     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683940210415933     Document Type: Article

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