Journal articles: 'Attitude scales'

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Sirri, Laura, Silvana Grandi, and Giovanni A. Fava. "The Illness Attitude Scales." Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 77, no. 6 (2008): 337–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000151387.

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Lester, David. "The Lester Attitude toward Death Scale." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 23, no. 1 (August 1991): 67–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/me86-bpbe-eve3-ma6n.

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This article publishes the Lester Attitude Toward Death Scale for the first time, together with data on its reliability and validity. The scale is different from other fear of death scales in its use of a scaled value approach that permits a measure of inconsistency in attitudes.

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Aguilera Mijares, Santiago, Alejandra Del Carmen Domínguez Espinosa, and Pedro Wolfgang Velasco Matus. "Structural Equivalence of an Attitude Toward Religion Scale in Mexico, Nicaragua and China." Universitas Psychologica 15, no. 2 (September 20, 2016): 315. http://dx.doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.upsy15-2.seat.

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The Attitude toward Catholicism, Judaism, Hinduism, and Islam scales were adapted for this study into a single scale that measures overall attitudes towards religion. The resulting Attitude toward Religion (ATR) Scale was adapted into both Spanish and Chinese and administered in Mexico (n = 265), Nicaragua (n = 296), and China (n = 460) to a total of 1,021 individuals (59% women, 41% men; Mage = 22.4 years, SD = 7.01 years). The scale’s structural equivalence (i.e. Does the instrument measure the same construct in each country?) was assessed using Exploratory Factor Analyses and pairwise comparisons. Strong evidence for structural equivalence was provided by the analyses’ results, as we obtained a one-dimensional solution (labeled Attitude Toward Religion, ATR) in all three countries and Tucker’s Phi test was very close to 1. These findings support the unidimensional solution for attitudes toward religions obtained in previous scales and broaden the scope for these studies in several cultural contexts. Further implications are discussed.

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McHugh, Maureen C., and Irene Hanson Frieze. "The Measurement of Gender-Role Attitudes." Psychology of Women Quarterly 21, no. 1 (March 1997): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1997.tb00097.x.

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This article reviews measures of gender-role attitudes with an emphasis on The Attitudes Toward Women Scale (AWS; Spence & Helmreich, 1972); the Sex Role Egalitarianism Scale (SRES; Beere, King, Beere, & King, 1984); the Modern Sexism Scale (MS; Swim, Aikin, Hall, & Hunter, 1995); the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI; Click & Fiske, 1996), and the Children's Occupational Activity Trait-Attitude Measure (COAT-AM; Bigler, Liben, Lobliner, & Yekel, 1995). The discussion of gender-role attitude measures focuses on the following themes: psychometric criteria; theoretical and conceptual distinctions among measures; domains of attitudes and behaviors included; relationship to other measures; and the meaningfulness and relevance of items. Gender-role attitude scales are viewed as measuring gender-role ideology in a particular sociohistorical context; context-specificity is viewed as contributing to the proliferation of scales, and as limiting the usefulness of scales across cultural and temporal boundaries.

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Adams, Ann. "Attitude scales: building a composite picture." Nurse Researcher 5, no. 3 (May 1998): 51–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/nr.5.3.51.s6.

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Bringula, Rex P. "Development of capstone project attitude scales." Education and Information Technologies 20, no. 3 (December 13, 2013): 485–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10639-013-9297-1.

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BELLEAU, BONNIE D., and TERESA A. SUMMERS. "Comparison of selected computer attitude scales." Journal of Consumer Studies and Home Economics 17, no. 3 (September 1993): 275–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-6431.1993.tb00171.x.

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Sanderson, Patricia. "The development of dance attitude scales." Educational Research 42, no. 1 (January 2000): 91–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/001318800363944.

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Garland, Kate J., and Jan M. Noyes. "Computer attitude scales: How relevant today?" Computers in Human Behavior 24, no. 2 (March 2008): 563–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2007.02.005.

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Smerchinskaya, Svetlana O., and Nina P. Yashina. "Aggregation of preferences in attitude scales." International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing 12, no. 04 (March 15, 2021): 2150026. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1793962321500264.

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The problem of decision-making when evaluating alternatives according to several quality criteria is considered. Information is used about the pairwise comparison of alternatives by criteria: how many times one alternative is preferable to the other. The criteria may have nonuniform scales. The method to form preferences matrices for representing numerical estimates of alternatives in attitude scales is proposed. The properties of the constructed relation are investigated. The algorithms for constructing the relation with the minimum distance from the preferences by criteria are developed. An algorithm for constructing an aggregated relation based on the summation of preferences by criteria is developed. Aggregate relation depends on the method of specifying the distance between the matrices of preferences. The proposed algorithms for constructing an aggregated relation can use coefficients of importance of criteria. The method can be applied in collective choice problems when assigning estimates to alternatives by experts. A comparison of the proposed algorithms with each other and with known decision-making methods is carried out. The software system of multi-criteria choice is developed. The task of choosing start-up projects for the purpose of investing by a venture fund has been solved.

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Terwilliger, James S., and Janet C. Titus. "Gender Differences in Attitudes and Attitude Changes Among Mathematically Talented Youth." Gifted Child Quarterly 39, no. 1 (January 1995): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001698629503900105.

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A survey form that assesses components of attitude thought to be relevant to success in a program for mathematically talented youth was administered to program participants on four occasions over a 2-year period. The reliabilities of the attitude scales and the pattem of correlations among the scales were quite similar for boys and girls who applied for the program. Among those who were selected for the program, boys showed a significantly higher level of motivation, confidence, and interest in mathematics than did girls. Over the first 2 years in the program, both boys and girls exhibited significant declines in attitudes on most scales,

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de Bot, Kees, Peter Broeder, and Ludo Th Verhoeven. "Het Meten van Culturele Oriëntatie in Relatie met Taalvaardigheid." Nederlands als tweede taal 22 (January 1, 1985): 33–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ttwia.22.04bot.

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Recently, numerous studies evaluating bilingual education programs have shown that cultural orientation and language attitude play an important role in achieving sufficient proficiency in both first and second language. Despite a long tradition . of research in the field of attitude measurement, no test is readily available measuring cultural orientation in young second language learners. In the present article a description is given of the development of such a test for Turkish and Moroccan children learning Dutch as a second language in primary school. The test is based on Zirkel and Jackson's (1974) Cultural Attitude Scales. The reliability and validity of the test have been investi-gated in two studies. In the first (Buster et. al. 1985) 850 children were tested, and their scores on the cultural attitudes scales were compared to other measures that might reflect cultural orientation (questionnaires, sociograms) and to language proficiency tests. The reliability appeared to be fairly high, but there was no significant relation between cultural attitudes and language proficiency. In the second study (Verhoeven & Extra 1983) cultural attitude scales were used with individuals rather than with groups. Test scores were compared with data from interviews with the children tested, their parents and their teachers. On the whole this study suggests that the validity of the cultural attitude scale is sufficiently high. If certain requirements (e.g. regular revision because of the changing socio-cultural setting) are met, the cultural attitude scales appear to be a useful instrument in bilingual education research.

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Karavas-Doukas, Evdokia. "Using attitude scales to investigate teachers' attitudes to the communicative approach." ELT Journal 50, no. 3 (July 1996): 187–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/elt/50.3.187.

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Platow, Michael J., and Roger Shave. "Scales: A Turbo Pascal 6.0 unit for presenting simple attitude scales." Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 26, no. 3 (September 1994): 372. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/bf03204649.

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Craven, Rhonda G., Marjorie Seaton, and Alexander S. Yeung. "Attitude to Non-Violence Scale: Validity and Practical Use." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 32, no. 13 (June 16, 2015): 2018–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260515590785.

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This study used recent advances in attitude and self-perception research to develop an Attitude to Non-Violence Scale (ANVS). Participants were students from six high schools in Australia ( N = 727). Confirmatory factor analysis using within-construct and between-construct validation approaches found two positive attitude sub-scales: Cognitive (proactive understanding) and Affective (do not endorse violence), both showing convergent and discriminant validity. Scale equivalence tests found that the sub-scales were applicable to boys and girls and to junior and senior grades. Structural equation modeling found that boys had less supportive attitudes to non-violence cognitively, whereas female students in senior secondary classes had less positive attitudes to non-violence affectively. The ANVS can be easily administered to assess youth’s non-violence attitudes, which may direct interventions focusing on boys’ cognitive aspects while maintaining girls’ positive affective attitudes toward non-violence as they mature. The positively framed instrument is suitable for education settings especially in high-risk locations where violence is prevalent.

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Khatoon, Zohra. "Development of TOSRA (Test of Science Related Attitudes) Instrument for Science Related Attitude Studies in Sindh Province." International Journal of Innovation in Teaching and Learning (IJITL) 7, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 79–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.35993/ijitl.v7i1.1327.

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This study aims to explore the implementation of attitude measurement tool known as Test of Science-Related Attitudes (TOSRA) in Sindh. 1097 higher-secondary level students from Hyderabad division of Sindh participated in the study. The alpha reliability values of different scale of TOSRA were analysed and enhanced to acceptable and good level using statistical techniques. The alpha coefficients for adapted TOSRA scales were observed as; Social Implications of Science (0.707), Adoption of Scientific Attitudes (0.801), Classroom Enjoyment (0.779), Leisure Interest in Science (0.767) and Career Interest in Science (0.701). The overall alpha coefficient for adopted (five-scale) TOSRA questionnaire administered in this study was 0.912. Similarly, the values of discriminant validity of the scales were deduced using correlation techniques for these scales where mean correlation between the scales ranged from 0.49 to 0.57. The adopted version of TOSRA was developed based on the statistical analyses including Cronbach alpha, Pearson’s correlation, and factor analysis, and showed sufficient validity and reliability to be implemented in subsequent research to measure students’ attitude towards science in province of Sindh, Pakistan. Keywords: Attitude towards Science, TOSRA, Instrument development, Science Education, Higher secondary students

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Xu, Mengran, Pablo Briñol, Jeremy D. Gretton, Zakary L. Tormala, Derek D. Rucker, and Richard E. Petty. "Individual Differences in Attitude Consistency Over Time: The Personal Attitude Stability Scale." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 46, no. 10 (March 7, 2020): 1507–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167220908995.

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This research finds evidence for reliable individual differences in people’s perceived attitude stability that predict the actual stability of their attitudes over time. Study 1 examines the reliability and factor structure of an 11-item Personal Attitude Stability Scale (PASS). Study 2 establishes test–retest reliability for the PASS over a 5-week period. Studies 3a and 3b demonstrate the convergent and discriminant validity of the PASS in relation to relevant existing individual differences. Studies 4 and 5 show that the PASS predicts attitude stability following a delay period across several distinct topics. Across multiple attitude objects, for people with high (vs. low) scores on the PASS, Time 1 attitudes were more predictive of their Time 2 attitudes, indicative of greater attitudinal consistency over time. The final study also demonstrates that the PASS predicts attitude stability above and beyond other related scales.

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Grubor, Aleksandar, Nenad Djokic, Ines Djokic, and Ruzica Kovac-Znidersic. "Application of health and taste attitude scales in Serbia." British Food Journal 117, no. 2 (February 2, 2015): 840–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bfj-11-2013-0330.

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Purpose – Consumers’ attitudes, especially their attitudes towards health and taste, are significant in understanding and predicting dietary behaviour. In this research, Health and Taste Attitude Scales (HTAS) developed by Roininen et al. in 1999 for measuring health and taste attitudes of consumers, were applied in Serbia. The purpose of this paper is to find out whether the same sub-scales can be identified as in HTAS applications abroad, to test the predictive validity of HTAS and to investigate respondents’ health and taste attitudes in the context of their socio-demographic characteristics. Design/methodology/approach – Primary data were gathered by means of focus groups and a survey – structured personal interviews by using a questionnaire. The research was conducted in July 2013 with 300 respondents participating. Findings – The same sub-scales were identified in Serbian consumer research as in HTAS applications abroad. Generally, all the Health sub-scales are useful predictors of consumption of several types of food perceived as healthy, while the Taste sub-scales (except Pleasure) are good predictors of consumption of both, food considered as tasty and food considered as not tasty. Out of socio-demographic variables, only age showed statistically significant correlations to some of the Taste sub-scales. Practical implications – Several recommendations for companies operating on the domestic food market were given in this paper. Originality/value – The first application of HTAS in Serbia, generally characterized by scarce food consumer research, was shown in this paper. It is also the first application of HTAS in a Southern European country.

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Woodrow, Janice E. J. "A Comparison of Four Computer Attitude Scales." Journal of Educational Computing Research 7, no. 2 (May 1991): 165–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/wlam-p42v-12a3-4llq.

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Ward, Rod, Margaret Glogowska, Katherine Pollard, and Pam Moule. "Developing and testing attitude scales around IT." Nurse Researcher 17, no. 1 (October 2009): 77–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/nr2009.10.17.1.77.c7343.

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Utley, Juliana. "Construction and Validity of Geometry Attitude Scales." School Science and Mathematics 107, no. 3 (March 2007): 89–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1949-8594.2007.tb17774.x.

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Holmes, Jeffrey D. "Transparency of Self-Report Racial Attitude Scales." Basic and Applied Social Psychology 31, no. 2 (May 12, 2009): 95–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01973530902876884.

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McCready, Marina L., and Bonita C. Long. "Locus of Control, Attitudes Toward Physical Activity, and Exercise Adherence." Journal of Sport Psychology 7, no. 4 (December 1985): 346–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsp.7.4.346.

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The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationship between exercise adherence and the combined effects of locus of control and attitudes toward physical activity. The primary instruments used were the Internal, Powerful Others, and Chance Scales (Levenson, 1974); the Exercise Objectives Locus of Control Scales (developed by the first author); and the Revised Children's Attitudes Toward Physical Activity Inventory (Schutz, Smell, & Wood, 1981a). The subjects were 61 females, ages 15-57 (M = 28), voluntarily participating in 8- to 12-week aerobic fitness programs. Findings indicated only a weak relationship between adherence and the combination of locus of control and attitudes. Results of stepwise regression analysis revealed that two attitude measures were the best predictors of exercise adherence. In general, those subjects who at the outset of the programs had a less positive attitude toward participating in physical activity for continuing social relations and a more positive attitude toward participating in order to reduce stress and tension tended to have a higher percent attendance.

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Arends-Tóth, Judit, Fons J. R. van de Vijver, and Ype H. Poortinga. "The Influence of Method Factors on the Relation between Attitudes and Self-Reported Behaviors in the Assessment of Acculturation." European Journal of Psychological Assessment 22, no. 1 (January 2006): 4–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759.22.1.4.

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The role of variation in response scales and measurement methods in the often implicitly assumed attitude-behavior exchangeability in the assessment of acculturation was investigated. Three levels of equivalence of acculturation attitudes and self-reported behaviors were studied: structural equivalence (identity of the internal structure of attitude and behavior), metric equivalence (identity of measurement unit for the two), and scalar equivalence (identity of measurement unit and scale origin). In three studies involving Turkish-Dutch adults a high overall level of structural equivalence was found, implying that acculturation attitudes and behaviors can be conceptualized using a single underlying construct (i.e., acculturation). Metric and scalar equivalence varied across life domains, response scales, and measurement methods: They were higher for the private than for the public domain, for identical than for different response scales, and for the one-statement than for the two-statement measurement method. We concluded that in the assessment of acculturation attitudes and behaviors can only be interchanged in highly restricted conditions.

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Dorman, Jeffrey P., and Campbell J. McRobbie. "Using Secondary School Students’ Perceptions to Develop a Structural Model for Attitude to Christianity." International Journal of Education and Religion 1, no. 1 (July 24, 2000): 248–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1570-0623-90000005.

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Over the past 30 years, independent lines of research in the fields of classroom environment and student attitudes to Christianity have been conducted. This research brought these two fields together by hypothesizing a model for the relationship among age, gender, students’ perceptions of religion classroom environment, students’ religious behavior and attitudes to Christianity. Responses from 815 Australian Catholic secondary school students on four attitude to Christianity scales, four classroom environment scales and the religious behavior of students and their parents were analyzed. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to validate the structure of the classroom environment and attitude to Christianity measures. Goodness of fit indices obtained from structural equation modeling revealed that the hypothesized model was a satisfactory fit to the data. Statistically significant path coefficients for the influence of students’ religious behavior and students’ perceptions of the religion classroom environment on students’ attitude to Christianity were found.

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Kara, Feyza Meryem, Halil Sarol, and Hamdi Alper Güngörmüş. ""Attitudes Are Contagious”: Leisure Attitude and Passion of University Students." International Education Studies 12, no. 7 (June 29, 2019): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v12n7p42.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of leisure attitude in determining passion in university students and to examine gender differences in leisure attitude and passion. 154 female (Mage= 20.51±1.44) and 95 male (Mage= 22.26±1.93) a totally 249 (Mage= 21.18 ± 1.85) university students voluntarily participated in this study from Ankara/Turkey. “Leisure Attitudes Scale-Short Version” (LAS)" (Ragheb & Beard, 1982) and “Passion Scale” (PS) (Vallerand et al., 2003) were administered to university students. t-test and Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis were used to analyze the data. According to regression analysis; it was found that leisure attitude were the meaningful predictors of obsessive and harmonious passion. Analysis indicated significant differences in Passion Scale’s sub-scales (harmonious and obsessive passion) according to genders in favor of male participants (p< 0.05). As a result, it could be concluded that male participants were more passionate about activity than female participants in terms of gender, such as voluntarily participation, satisfaction, social acceptance anxiety and self-worth that explaining the concept of passion model.

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Dammen, Toril, Svein Friis, and Øivind Ekeberg. "The illness attitude scales in chest pain patients." Journal of Psychosomatic Research 46, no. 4 (April 1999): 335–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0022-3999(98)00127-5.

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Torabi, Mohammad R. "Factors Affecting Reliability Coefficients of Health Attitude Scales." Journal of School Health 58, no. 5 (May 1988): 186–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-1561.1988.tb05857.x.

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Low, Graham, Isabel Tasker, and Lu Hong. "The wording of bipolar attitude scales in Chinese." Educational Research 33, no. 2 (June 1991): 141–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013188910330207.

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Jung, HaeRee, Hyun-Yee Ha, Soo Jin Lee, and Han Chae. "Effects of Parenting Attitude on K-CBCL Scales." Journal of Korean Oriental Pediatrics 27, no. 2 (May 31, 2013): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.7778/jpkm.2013.27.2.001.

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Kassinove, Jeffrey I. "Development of the gambling attitude scales: Preliminary findings." Journal of Clinical Psychology 54, no. 6 (October 1998): 763–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199810)54:6<763::aid-jclp2>3.0.co;2-i.

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Weck, Florian, Gaby Bleichhardt, and Wolfgang Hiller. "Screening for Hypochondriasis With the Illness Attitude Scales." Journal of Personality Assessment 92, no. 3 (April 19, 2010): 260–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223891003670216.

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Rudran, Raghunath, and Ajith Kumar J. "Measurement scales for technology-generated customer contact." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 37, no. 5 (May 2, 2017): 534–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijopm-02-2016-0079.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop measurement scales for customer contact in a technology-generated context. Design/methodology/approach The authors adapted the scales of Froehle and Roth (2004), by following a systematic scale adaptation and development process. The adapted scales were tested for psychometric properties and refined by building measurement models using partial least squares structural equation modeling. Findings The authors found it necessary to revise Froehle and Roth’s (2004) original items in most of the scales. After testing, the “attitude towards the episode” scale was dropped and remaining nine scales were retained. Research limitations/implications The scales will be useful to future researchers on online shopping to advance their research. The scales can be tested and validated with data from multiple empirical contexts and adapted to those contexts as necessary. Future studies must examine path relationships between belief, attitude, and intention constructs. Practical implications The adapted scales can be useful to practitioners in the domain of online shopping to measure the beliefs, attitudes, and intentions of their customers. Potential beneficiaries include service providers, service designers, industry associations as well as regulators in the government. Originality/value The overarching contribution of this paper lies in developing scales pertaining to the online shopping context of technology-generated customer contact. The paper has simultaneously addressed two relatively less attended areas of research on service operations – the role of technology in customer contact and measurement of customer contact.

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Castanho Silva, Bruno, Sebastian Jungkunz, Marc Helbling, and Levente Littvay. "An Empirical Comparison of Seven Populist Attitudes Scales." Political Research Quarterly 73, no. 2 (March 12, 2019): 409–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1065912919833176.

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With the recent upsurge of populism in developed and transition democracies, researchers have started measuring it as an attitude. Several scales have been proposed for this purpose. However, there is little direct comparison between the available alternatives. Scholars who wish to measure populist attitudes have little information available to help select the best scale for their purposes. In this article, we directly compare seven populist attitudes scales from multiple perspectives: conceptual development, questionnaire design, dimensionality, information, cross-national validity, and external validity. We use original survey data collected online from nine countries in Europe and the Americas, with around 250 participants per country, in which all seven batteries of questions were present. Results show that most scales have important methodological and validity limitations in at least one of the dimensions tested, and should not be used for cross-national comparative research. We recommend populist attitudes items that work better at capturing populism, and more generally provide guidelines for researchers who want to compare different scales that supposedly measure the same construct.

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Balasubramanian, Siva K., and Wagner A. Kamakura. "Measuring Consumer Attitudes toward the Marketplace with Tailored Interviews." Journal of Marketing Research 26, no. 3 (August 1989): 311–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002224378902600305.

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The authors demonstrate how item response theory can be applied for cost effective measurement of consumer attitudes with multi-item scales. The measurement technique they discuss and illustrate is tailored to each respondent so that each is asked only the scale items most informative of his or her attitude level. This approach yields attitude estimates from only a fraction of the total number of items in the attitude scale, with a measurable and controllable increase in the standard error of measurement. Potential cost-saving implications are discussed.

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Ley, Terry C., Barbara B. Schaer, Jone P. Wright, and Kathy S. Neal. "Relations among Dimensions of Reading Attitudes and Stages of Internalization of Reading Attitudes Held by Prospective Teachers." Perceptual and Motor Skills 67, no. 2 (October 1988): 407–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1988.67.2.407.

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To estimate how two reading attitude scales are related, 198 prospective teachers were administered the Mikulecky Behavioral Reading Attitude Measure and the Teale-Lewis Reading Attitude Scales. The former allowed classification of subjects according to Krathwohl's five stages of internalization of attitudes, while the Teale-Lewis scale measured the value subjects placed upon individual development, utilitarian and enjoyment dimensions of reading. Canonical analysis showed that the two instruments are related, with one significant function accounting for 64% of the variance. All subscales contributed significantly. The two-way multivariate analysis of variance with three dependent measures (Teale-Lewis dimensions) and two independent measures (sex and the five Mikulecky stages) gave one significant main effect—the five Mikulecky stages Readers classified at higher stages of internalization of attitudes tended 10 place greater value on all three Teale-Lewis dimensions than did readers at lower stages. Although 22% of the subjects were classified at one of the two highest stages (organization and characterization), 69% were classified at one of the two lowest stages (attending and responding).

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Łupkowski, Paweł, and Marta Gierszewska. "Attitude Towards Humanoid Robots and the Uncanny Valley Hypothesis." Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences 44, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 101–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/fcds-2019-0006.

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AbstractThe main aim of the presented study was to check whether the well-established measures concerning the attitude towards humanoid robots are good predictors for the uncanny valley effect. We present a study in which 12 computer rendered humanoid models were presented to our subjects. Their declared comfort level was cross-referenced with the Belief in Human Nature Uniqueness (BHNU) and the Negative Attitudes toward Robots that Display Human Traits (NARHT) scales. Subsequently, there was no evidence of a statistical significance between these scales and the existence of the uncanny valley phenomenon. However, correlations between expected stress level while human-robot interaction and both BHNU, as well as NARHT scales, were found. The study covered also the evaluation of the perceived robots’ characteristic and the emotional response to them.

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Templer, Donald I., Lynette Bassman, Christine Szostak, Rhoda Myra Graces-Bacsal, Hiroko Arikawa, and Anne Petrovich. "CONSTRUCTION AND PARTIAL VALIDATION OF AN ANIMAL USE INVENTORY." Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century 7, no. 1 (December 15, 2013): 57–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/ppc/13.07.57.

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A 78-item Animal Use Inventory was constructed. Previous animal attitude scales have centered on affection, bonding, companion animal ownership, animal-human continuity, and general attitudes toward animals, but not use of animals. The present inventory has six scales: Sports and Entertainment, Hunting, Working and Service, Research, Fur, and Loving and Affection. Men scored higher on the Hunting, Research, Entertainment, and Service scales. National Rifle Association members scored higher than animal protection society members on the Hunting and Fur scales. In general, the scales correlated positively with each other but negatively with the Loving and Affection scale. Nevertheless, caution was urged because of the unimpressive Cronbach’s alphas on some of the scales. Further development is recommended. Key words: animal use, ethnicity, gender, scales, hunting, companionship, work, food.

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Schredl, Michael, Nina Burau, Rebecca Kunkel, and Julia Lanzl. "Are Negative Attitudes Toward Dreams Just the Inverse of Positive Attitudes Toward Dreams? An Empirical Investigation." Imagination, Cognition and Personality 40, no. 1 (November 17, 2019): 8–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0276236619889553.

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As dreaming is a universal phenomenon, it seems natural that everyone has a more or less explicitly defined attitude toward dreams. Recent studies indicate that positive and negative attitude toward dream scales—even given there is considerable overlap—might not be related to the same variables. The findings of the present online survey ( N = 2,056) using 22 attitude items indicated that positive and negative attitudes can be differentiated through confirmatory factor analysis and that variables like age, education, and frequent dream recall are differentially associated with positive and negative attitudes toward dreams. It would be very interesting to expand this study to investigate whether other variables, personality dimensions, general skepticism and so on, are associated with positive and negative attitudes toward dreams in different ways.

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Plane, Dennis. "The Appearance of Polarization Due to Attitude Formation in the 2004 Presidential Election." American Review of Politics 29 (April 1, 2008): 19–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.2008.29.0.19-47.

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Citizens were more engaged in the 2004 election than they were in 2000. This increased engagement was accompanied by attitude formation. Specifically, fewer citizens gave don’t know responses. In addition, fewer citizens gave midpoint responses on attitudinal scales; such responses are often a refuge for those lacking meaningful attitudes. Furthermore, attitude formation was accompanied by increased attitude extremitization. We find that this extremitization occurred for both partisans and for independents. More noticeable differences in extremitization occurred as a function of political engagement, with more engaged citizens exhibiting greater extremitization than their lesser-involved counterparts.

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Kaya, Sabri, Emanuele Isidori, and Halil Sarol. "An examination of adolescents’ attitudes towards leisure activities." International Journal of Human Sciences 12, no. 2 (August 31, 2015): 485. http://dx.doi.org/10.14687/ijhs.v12i2.3356.

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The aim of this study was to examine the attitudes level towards leisure activities of adolescents and to compare the participants' attitudes levels according to some variables. 610 (Nmale= 333; Mage= 15.80, SD= 1.14 and Nfemale= 277; Mage= 15.66, SD= 1.01) adolescents enrolled in this study from different high schools in Turkey. The Leisure Attitude Scale (LAS) (Ragheb and Beard, 1982) was administered on the participants. Cognitive, affective and behavioral items (12 per type) were rated on a five-point Likert scale. Descriptive statistical methods and MANOVA were used to compare the differential scores of the three sub-scales of the T-LAS among the demographic variables. Correlation analysis was used to test the relationship between T-LAS sub-scales and age. The cognitive sub-scale scores were the highest toward leisure. MANOVA analysis indicated no significant mean differences in all three sub-scales with regard to gender. However, there were no significant main effect of participation in physical activity on “T-LAS” scores; a follow-up univariate analysis indicated significant main effects for participation in physical activity on the sub-scales of “Cognitive”, “Affective”, “Behavioral”. Participants groups had higher mean attitude scores than the non-participants in all sub-scales of T-LAS. Additionally, MANOVA indicated significant main effect of school type on “T-LAS” scores, in tests between subject effects by school type, results also revealed a significant differences in the “Cognitive”, “Affective”, “Behavioral” sub-scales. Private high schools’ students had higher scores than the others. Overall, the girl participants had lower attitudes toward leisure than the boys. While the highest leisure attitudes mean score in affective sub-scale, cognitive subscale is the lowest score.

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Ciftci, Serdar, and Soner Aladag. "An Investigation of Pre-Service Primary School Teachers’ Attitudes towards Digital Technology and Digital Citizenship Levels in Terms of Some Variables." International Education Studies 11, no. 1 (December 22, 2017): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v11n1p111.

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This study aims at investigating the relationship between pre-service primary school teachers’ attitudes towards digital technology and digital citizenship scale levels. The research was designed in descriptive survey model. The data collection tools were “Attitude Scale for Digital Technology” (ASDT) developed by Cabi (2016) and “Digital Citizenship Scale” (DCS) developed by Isman and Gungoren (2014). Some of the research findings are as follows: While there is a statistically insignificant difference between pre-service teachers’ scores from two scales in terms of the variable of gender, the variable of class creates a statistically significant difference between the scores from two scales. The scores from the Attitude Scale for Digital Technology was not affected by the number of years pre-service teachers had spent using the Internet, whereas the same variable affected their Digital Citizenship Scale scores. When the correlations were analyzed, it was seen the relationship between digital attitude and digital citizenship was positive and significant, i.e. as the digital attitude scores of the participants increase, so do their digital citizenship scores.

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Shamionov, R. M. "The Role of Individual Values, Authoritarian Attitudes and Social Identity in the General Discriminatory Orientation of the Personal in Russia." Social Psychology and Society 11, no. 2 (2020): 54–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/sps.2020110204.

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Objective. Study of the role of individual values, authoritarian attitudes and social identity in the expression of discriminatory orientation of the personal in Russia. Background. Discriminatory attitudes not only hinder social development, but also negatively affect interpersonal and intergroup relationships, creating social and humanitarian problems. Therefore, finding out and explaining the reasons for the formation of a discriminatory attitude and determining how to eliminate them are the most important tasks of modern social psychology. Study design. The paper studied the relationship between the degree of dislike for representatives of various discriminated groups and the areas of discrimination by calculating the Pearson correlation. Predictors of discriminatory attitudes are established using regression analysis (step-by-step method). Structural modeling of the determinants of discriminatory attitudes of the individual by area (sphere) of discrimination and subject (discriminated group) using the SEM method is carried out. Participants. The study involved 217 people (the average age is 28.9±11.2 years, 36% of men). Measurements. We used the developed questionnaire and scales of discriminatory attitudes, the method of assessing values of Sh. Schwartz, a short version of the scales of the method of J. Dukkit. All scales are checked for meaningful validity and reliability. Results. It was found that the discriminatory attitude is most pronounced in the sphere of sports, education and career. Biases and rejection of representatives of different groups in various spheres of life are associated with the high significance of the values of personal and social security, power — resources, traditions (positive); values of interpersonal conformity and independence — thoughts (negative) and reputation as a desire to maintain a public image (ambivalent in different areas). The directions of relations between values, authoritarian attitudes, social identity and discriminatory attitudes are established. Сonclusions. It is shown that civil identity is a factor of institutional discrimination rather than domestic one. Adherence to an ethnic group affects the strength of a domestic discriminatory attitude directly, and institutional attitudes indirectly, through civic identity. As a result of structural equation modeling, a suitable model has been determined that explains up to 24% of variations in the outgroup discriminatory attitude and up to 25% of variations in the manifestation of biases in various spheres of life.

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NANDA, GEETA, SIDNEY RUTH SCHULER, and RACHEL LENZI. "THE INFLUENCE OF GENDER ATTITUDES ON CONTRACEPTIVE USE IN TANZANIA: NEW EVIDENCE USING HUSBANDS' AND WIVES' SURVEY DATA." Journal of Biosocial Science 45, no. 3 (January 14, 2013): 331–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932012000855.

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SummaryThis paper explores the hypothesis that gender attitude scales (which measure the degree of equity in gender attitudes) are associated with contraceptive use. Four hundred male and female respondents (200 couples) were interviewed using a pre-tested, structured questionnaire. Analyses included comparisons of means and prevalence rates on gender equity indicators, other related factors and socio-demographic characteristics;t-tests to compare mean scores on each gender scale for wives and husbands to identify any significant differences; chi-squared tests to compare associations between individual attributes, attitudes and contraceptive use; and multivariate logistic regression to examine associations between each gender scale and contraceptive use. The findings revealed that, on average, wives endorsed more inequitable gender attitudes compared with husbands on all gender attitude scales. For wives, more equitable gender attitudes were positively associated with contraceptive use. For husbands, the role of gender attitudes had no significant association with wives' reported contraceptive use. Family planning programmes that aim to challenge inegalitarian gender norms should not overlook women in their efforts since both men and women often accept and support inequality in a social system and, in some cases, it may be women's gender attitudes that most influence family planning decisions.

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Fiedler, Craig R., and Richard L. Simpson. "Modifying the Attitudes of Nonhandicapped High School Students toward Handicapped Peers." Exceptional Children 53, no. 4 (January 1987): 342–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001440298705300409.

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Two curricular approaches for modifying nonhandicapped high school students' attitudes toward their exceptional peers were compared. One curriculum was structured around categories of exceptionality (e.g., mental retardation, sensory impairments) while the other focused on generic concepts, including values, conformity, individual differences, and labeling effects. Each curriculum was presented over a 10-week period and the effects assessed via two pencil-paper attitude evaluation scales. Results revealed that both curricula positively modified students' attitudes, with subjects exposed to the categorical curriculum demonstrating significantly greater attitude changes. The data are interpreted relative to the issue of labeling and the most effective means of positively modifying attitudes toward handicapped persons.

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Desselle, Shane P. "Construction, Implementation, and Analysis of Summated Rating Attitude Scales." American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 69, no. 5 (September 2005): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.5688/aj690597.

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Go, Tiauw Hiong, and Rudrapatna V. Ramnath. "Geomagnetic Attitude Control of Satellites Using Generalized Multiple Scales." Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 20, no. 4 (July 1997): 690–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/2.4132.

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Bannon, Susan H., Jon C. Marshall, and Susan Fluegal. "Cognitive and Affective Computer Attitude Scales: A Validity Study." Educational and Psychological Measurement 45, no. 3 (September 1985): 679–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001316448504500328.

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Waters, L. K., and Todd Zakrajsek. "The Construct Validity of Four Protestant Ethic Attitude Scales." Educational and Psychological Measurement 51, no. 1 (March 1991): 117–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013164491511010.

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Gardner, Paul L. "The dimensionality of attitude scales: a widely misunderstood idea." International Journal of Science Education 18, no. 8 (December 1996): 913–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950069960180804.

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