Is Formative Measurement Really Measurement? Reply to Bollen (2007) and Bagozzi (2007)

Psychological Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 238-245

  Howell, Roy D ^a   Breivik, Einar ^b   Wilcox, James B ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

formative measurement; latent variables; reflective measurement; structural equation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548854543     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.12.2.238     Document Type: Article

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