Effect of personality item writing on psychometric properties of ideal-point and likert scales

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1162-1172

  Huang, Jialin ^a   Mead, Alan D ^a  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five personality; Ideal point model; Item response theory; Item writing; Scale construction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDEAL POINT AND DOMINANCE MODEL; IDEAL POINT SCALE; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ITEM WRITING TEST; PERSONALITY TEST; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; WRITING; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925878687     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0037273     Document Type: Article

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