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Health Attitude Scale Construction: Importance of Psychometric Evidence
Objective:
To identify 18 steps to 3-component attitude scale construction.
Methods: Examples are provided to illustrate each step. Results:
The presentation primarily focused on specific steps in constructing
meaningful health attitude scales. Further, the importance and concept
of various forms of realibilty and validity are provided. Special
attention is given to factors affectiving psychometric evidence.
Conclusions: In order to meaningfully measure health related
attitudes, researchers and evaluators should consider following
the steps outline in the presentation. |