How would a rating scale item be worded?
a. "I can be alone for hours and not feel lonely": Strongly Agree, Agree, Undecided, Disagree, Strongly Disagree.
b. When I walk one block, I feel: (a) healthy and invigorated, (b) no different from the way I ordinarily feel, (c) pleasantly tired, (d) exhausted and out of breath.
c. Place a vertical line intersecting this line to show what your anxiety is; the scale's ends are 0 for "No Anxiety at All," and 10 for "The Worst Anxiety I Have Ever Experienced."
d. Rank your boss from 1 to 7 on the following quality: sensitivity–callousness.
ANS: B
The Likert scale determines the opinion or attitude of a subject and contains a number of declarative statements with a scale after each statement. A rating scale lists an ordered series of categories of a variable that are assumed to be based on an underlying continuum.
The Visual Analog Scale (VAS) is frequently used in health care research since it is easy to construct, administer, and score. VASs can be administered using a drawn, printed, or computer-generated 100-mm line. The research participant is asked to place a mark through the line to indicate the intensity of the sensation or stimulus. A semantic differential scale consists of two opposite adjectives with a seven-point scale between them.
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