A question asks subjects to respond to the following statement: "The nursing care I received during my hospital stay considered my needs as an individual." They were asked to identify, on a five-point scale, the degree to which they agreed or disagreed with the statement. This is an example of which scale?
1. Sort scale
2. Likert scale
3. Visual analog scale
4. Semantic differential scale
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Rationale 1: The Q sort has participants sort statements into categories according to their attitudes toward, or rating of, the statements.
Rationale 2: A Likert scale is a five-point to seven-point scale on which respondents are asked to indicate the extent/degree to which they agree or disagree with a neutrally worded statement.
Rationale 3: The visual analog scale presents subjects with a straight line drawn on a piece of paper. This line is anchored on each end by words or phrases that represent the extremes of the phenomenon being rated. Subjects mark on the line at the point that corresponds to their experience.
Rationale 4: A semantic differential asks subjects to indicate their position or attitude about some concept along a continuum between two adjectives or phrases that are presented in relation to the concept being measured.
Global Rationale:
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