Scale Development : Theory and Applications

DeVellis, Robert F.

ISBN 10: 080393775X / ISBN 13: 9780803937758

Verlag: SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 1991

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Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Scale Development : Theory and Applications
• Verlag: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 080393775X
• ISBN-13: 9780803937758
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Written at a highly accessible level, Scale Development guides the reader through the identification of the latent variable, the generation of an item pool, the format of measurement and the optimization of the scale length. Background methods and theories are presented conceptually rather than mathematically so the reader can develop an intuitive grasp of the concepts.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert F. DeVellis is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Health Behavior (Gillings School of Global Public Health) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. DeVellis has more than 40 years of experience in the measurement of psychological and social variables. He served as the first domain chair for Social Outcomes of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) consortium, a multisite National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap initiative directed at identifying, modifying, testing, and disseminating outcome measures for use by NIH investigators. He has served on the Board of Directors for the American Psychological Association’s Division of Health Psychology (38), on the Arthritis Foundation’s Clinical/Outcomes/Therapeutics Research Study Section, and on the Advisory Board of the Veterans Affairs Measurement Excellence Initiative. He is the recipient of the 2005 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals and is an associate editor of Arthritis Care and Research. In addition, he has served as guest editor, guest associate editor, or reviewer for more than two dozen other journals. He has served as principal investigator or co-investigator since the early 1980s on a series of research projects funded by the federal government and private foundations.