The influence of labels associated with anchor points of likert-type response scales in survey questionnaires

Journal of Applied Measurement

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 370-386

  Blais, Jean Guy ^a   Grondin, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCHOR POINT; DATA GATHERING; DATA VALIDITY; IN-LINE; RATING SCALE;

MEASUREMENTS;

SURVEYS;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CANADA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ATTITUDE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; FACULTY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PROBABILITY; QUEBEC; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS;

EID: 84857806989     PISSN: 15297713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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