A short form of the maximization scale: Factor structure, reliability and validity studies

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 371-388

  Nenkov, Gergana Y ^a,e   Morrin, Maureen ^b   Ward, Andrew ^c   Schwartz, Barry ^c   Hulland, John ^d  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^c SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximizing; Psychometric analysis; Satisficing; Scale refinement

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350155154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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