Characteristics of single-item measures in likert scale format

Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Alexandrov, Aliosha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

C OAR SE; Likert scale; Negatively worded items; Reversed items; Single item measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 83055199755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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